Advanced clinical practitioner role in the emergency department

Fawdon, Helen
Adams, John

¹Advanced clinical practitioner lead, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Northamptonshire.
²Temporary lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, Peterborough.

Fawdon H, Adams J (2013) Advanced clinical practitioner role in the emergency department. Nursing Standard. 28, 16-18, 48-51. Date of submission: September 10 2013; date of acceptance: October 14 2013.

Nursing Standard 28(16):p 48-51, December 18, 2013.

Abstract

The advanced clinical practitioner role in emergency departments in the UK has developed in an ad hoc manner, without a national framework of registration requirements. This article describes the structure adopted by one NHS trust in England to certify the clinical competence of advanced clinical practitioners in emergency departments through the completion of two portfolios, with a third portfolio to record professional development. The portfolios cover history taking, clinical examination, and interpretation of information and basic investigations to enable the practitioner to undertake medical clerking of a patient attending the emergency department. The portfolios contain evidence of learning and observation of practitioners by middle-grade doctors and consultants.

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