SEE NMC IMPACT ANALYSIS REPORT - BELOW - DECEMBER 2006

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The AANPE draws your attention to this document - see below. 

We urge you to read this carefully.  

This proposal encompasses the prospective ANP register. In brief, it will require ALL future ANPs to be assessed in practice by registered ANPs, and their competencies to be signed off in practice by registered ANPs. Candidates for the ANP register will need their competencies ‘signed off’ in practice - by an identified and suitably prepared registered ANP mentor - to be entered onto the ANP register.

Implications of this is self evident:

FORMAL ANP MENTORSHIP TRAINING
IDENTIFICATION AN SUPPORT OF ANP MENTORS IN PRACTICE
RESOURCE AND FINACIAL CONSTRAINTS
INTRODUCTION OF SCHEME BY 2008

The AANPE has responed to this proposal by representation at NMC review in September 2006.

 

Advanced Nursing Practice – update 4 July 2006

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is acutely aware that there is a great deal of interest in the progression of the work on advanced nursing practice. Approval was sought from the Privy Council to open a further sub-part of the nurses’ part of the register in order to register advanced nurse practitioners. A letter was sent to the Privy Council in December 2005 with additional information being sent in January 2006. The Privy Council has been seeking the views of the Department of Health (England), which takes the lead on regulatory matters relating to health care professions across the UK. Unfortunately these things do take time to process and we are still awaiting the response. Once we get the reponse, and assuming that it is positive, legislation will need to be in place in order to open a sub-part of the nurses’ part of the register for advanced nurse practitioners. There is a parliamentary process to go through in establishing any legislation and that has its own time frames. The formulation of legislation will take at least 6 months.

The work with regard to producing the standards of proficiency for advanced nurse practitioners document and providing guidelines for approved education institutions and applicants is well in hand. We will continue to keep you updated with information.

Further background to this work can be found at:


http://www.nmc-uk.org/aArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2038