Nuevas perspectivas profesionales: la enfermera de práctica avanzada en Urología

Abstract

The Advanced Practice Nursing is an emerging model in Spain, with great experience in the Anglo-Saxon context, which is being developed in other European countries. These new profiles are based on an advanced further training of nurses in four areas: advanced clinical competencies, clinical management, teaching and research. The Advanced Practice Nursing has two main figures: Nurse Practitioner (also known as Advanced Practitioner) and Nurse Consultant, characterized by a specific training orientate to perform tasks of greater complexity based on autonomous decision making and defined catalogue of services which goes beyond traditional activities set in our context, and where the nurse Advanced Practice leadspatient assessment and follow up. The Nurse Consultant also performs health policy design and consultancy functions. Within the urologic care field, different roles have emergedin the U.S., Canada and England known as Advanced Urology Nurse or Urology Nurse Practitioner with defined professional positions and specific professional accreditation systems. These new orientation is being proposed as the key to more traditional models in many European health systems, improving access to healthcare services through a shared management of the clinical demand based on the design of a new competency map for healthcare practitioners and, therefore, contributing to the cost-efficiency of health systems.