Overview
“Advanced clinical practice is delivered by experienced, registered health and care practitioners. It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by a master’s level award or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competence. Advanced clinical practice embodies the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people’s experience and improve outcomes.” HEE. Advanced clinical practice definition
Using this as our end goal enables us deliver masters level education to our ACP team, and using the
curriculum written by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) write a clear, structured education curriculum which runs every month as part of a regional study day with colleges from outside our trust attending. We also provide 1.5 whole time equivalent clinical educators within DREEAM who teach, design curriculums and support the department with educational delivery. This comprises of medical student attachments to the department and supporting their university curriculum, local education delivery to all members of the multi-professional team and ACP training with the University of Nottingham and our own ED-ACP trainees. Audit and research are important areas to ED in NUH and the ACP service are hugely involved in them, with over 50% of all audits in the department being completed by the ACP team. Our team also has several members who are GCP trained.
Internet Links
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/advanced-clinical-practice
An Introduction to Advanced Clinical Practice
Resources
ACP Junior Study Day
Lecture Notes
Please see link to a multimedia pdf document. Link teaching sessions from the ED.