FOUR CATEGORIES of the NURSING CARE CONTINUUM: DEFINITIONS, COMPETENCES & QUALIFICATIONS Healthcare General Care Specialist Advanced Assistant Nurse Nurse Nurse Practitioner (HCA) (GCN) (SN) (ANP) An auxiliary that A self-regulated A nurse A general Definition assists the nurse health care prepared on care nurse (in line with directly in nursing professional advance level who has ICN care in who and authorised advanced definitions institutional or autonomously to practice as knowledge and community and in a specialist base, complex modernised settings under the collaboration with specific decision Directive standards and the with others and expertise in a making skills 2005/36/EU, direct or indirect who has branch of the and clinical Directive supervision of the completed a nursing field competencies 2013/55/EU) general care nursing for expanded nurse. education clinical programme and practice on is qualified and advanced authorised in level; the his/her country characteristics to practise as a of which are general care shaped by the nurse. Has context successfully and/or completed a country in programme of which s/he is
FOUR CATEGORIES of the NURSING CARE CONTINUUM: DEFINITIONS, COMPETENCES & QUALIFICATIONS Healthcare Assistant (HCA) General Care Nurse (GCN) Specialist Nurse (SN) Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Definition (in line with ICN definitions and modernised Directive 2005/36/EU, Directive 2013/55/EU) An auxiliary that assists the nurse directly in nursing care in institutional or community settings under the standards and the direct or indirect supervision of the general care nurse. A self-regulated health care professional who autonomously and in collaboration with others and who has completed a nursing education programme and is qualified and authorised in his/her country to practise as a general care nurse. Has successfully completed a programme of A nurse prepared on advance level and authorised to practice as a specialist with specific expertise in a branch of the nursing field A general care nurse who has advanced knowledge base, complex decision making skills and clinical competencies for expanded clinical practice on advanced level; the characteristics of which are shaped by the context and/or country in which s/he is
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