Assessment of Advanced Practice Palliative Care Nursing Competencies in Nurse Practitioner Students: Implications for the Integration of ELNEC Curricular Modules

Background In Spain, palliative care (PC) nursing is not a recognized specialization and PC nurses do not receive systematic specialized academic training in PC. To ensure the quality of PC in Spain, the Spanish Association of Palliative Care Nursing has been working since 2011 to design a model of competencies for PC nurses. Objective: Verify whether a sample of Spanish PC nurses accepts the proposed model of PC nursing competencies describing their work. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional observational study based on an ad-hoc questionnaire about 98 proposed competencies, which participants rated for whether they belong to the purview of PC nurses and for their degree of concordance with their own practice and their degree of importance in PC nursing. Competencies receiving approval by more than 75% of participants for the three dimensions were considered to have been accepted by consensus. Mixed logistical models were developed to study the association between demographic variables and the responses. Results: Sixty-two out of 98 proposed competencies were accepted by more than 75% of participants. We therefore considered these competencies to have been accepted by consensus. Thirty-six proposed competencies failed to meet the threshold of 75% acceptance. For competencies that were accepted overall, participants with more than 10 years of experience in PC and participants with specialized training in PC were more likely to report that these competencies were part of the purview of PC nursing. Participants age >50 were less likely to report that competencies related to research concorded with their practice. Participants accepted the importance of all 98 proposed competencies. Conclusion: The variables of experience, training and age had a statistically significant relationship with the acceptance or rejection of the proposed competencies on the basis of purview and concordance. Further research is necessary to understand more fully these relationships to eventually arrive at a consensus model for the competencies of PC nurses.

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Increasing Nurse Practitioner Students’ Observational and Mindfulness Skills

Creative Nursing ◽

10.1891/1078-4535.20.1.67 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 67-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sheila Grossman ◽

Jill Deupi ◽

Kathleen Leitao

Keyword(s):

Nurse Practitioner ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Literacy Programs ◽

Advanced Practice ◽

Practice Nurses ◽

Mindfulness Skills ◽

Art Objects ◽

Learning Technique ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

Nurse Practitioner Students

Accurate, objective observation is a critical component of clinical diagnosis and patient management, which in turn is essential for successful diagnostic reasoning by advanced practice nurses. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to enhance nurse practitioner students’ observation and reflective thinking skills using Looking Is Not Seeing, a reflective practice/experiential learning technique that uses art objects to teach observation (Pellico, Friedlaender, & Fennie, 2009). Students’ posttest observation and interpretation scores showed statistically significant improvement over pretest scores. Students’ mindfulness scores and their own perceived observational and interpretive ability were statistically significantly higher after participating in the study. Building on the established record of successful visual literacy programs for nursing and medical students at other institutions, this research can help educators implement the Looking Is Not Seeing pedagogy.

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Palliative care nursing in the outpatient setting

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing ◽

10.1093/med/9780199332342.003.0055 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 761-776

Author(s):

Pamela Stitzlein Davies

Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

End Of Life ◽

Multidisciplinary Team ◽

Outpatient Setting ◽

Advanced Practice ◽

Ambulatory Clinic ◽

Practice Nurses ◽

Adult Outpatient ◽

Care Nursing

Nurses and advanced practice nurses (APNs), with their extensive psychosocial training, and in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, play an important role in helping ambulatory clinic patients and caregivers navigate concerns that arise as the end of life approaches. This chapter addresses the provision of palliative care in the adult outpatient setting, with a focus on the role of nurses and APNs.

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Nurse practitioner students as an essential workforce: The lessons of coronavirus disease 2019

Nursing Outlook ◽

10.1016/j.outlook.2020.12.002 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Gina Intinarelli ◽

Laura M. Wagner ◽

Barbara Burgel ◽

Robin Andersen ◽

Catherine L. Gilliss

Keyword(s):

Nurse Practitioner ◽

Nurse Practitioner Students

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Nurse Practitioner Students’ Perceptions on Delivering Culturally Congruent Care to Vulnerable Mexican Immigrants: A Qualitative Study

Hispanic Health Care International ◽

10.1177/15404153211020417 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 154041532110204

Author(s):

Linda S. Eanes ◽

Carolina Huerta ◽

Lilia Azeneth Fuentes ◽

Beatriz Bautista

Keyword(s):

Nurse Practitioners ◽

Nurse Practitioner ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Mexican Immigrants ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Cultural Beliefs ◽

Cultural Influences ◽

Therapeutic Communication ◽

Culturally Congruent ◽

Nurse Practitioner Students

Increasingly, nurse practitioners serve as vanguards in providing primary health care to vulnerable Mexican immigrants. The aims of this study were to explore the lived experiences of nurse practitioner students in caring for Mexican immigrant patients and to capture their meaning of cultural influences deemed essential to the delivery of culturally congruent care. An exploratory descriptive design was employed. Purposive sampling was used to select 17 nurse practitioner students who volunteered to complete a semistructured face-to-face audio-taped interview and follow-up focus group discussion. Constant comparison was utilized to analyze data. From this process, four distinct themes emerged: Culturally congruent care extends beyond race and ethnicity, understands the importance of therapeutic communication, accepts complementary and alternative medical modalities, and recognizes the importance of eating patterns, food choices, and perceptions of ideal weight and health. These findings build on our understanding of key evidence–based cultural beliefs and practices that are important in delivering culturally congruent care to this subgroup.

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