Archive | 2021
The Caring Advanced Practice Nursing Model
Abstract
In this chapter, a conceptual model of advanced practice nursing is presented, i.e., an abstract description of selected advanced practice nursing characteristics and central concepts. The model emanates from a caritative perspective and is based on theoretical studies and international research on advanced practice nursing, and knowledge of clinical reality in and experiences of different models of advanced practice nursing. The Caring advanced practice nursing model should not be considered a normative or final model but is instead intended to provide a simplified picture of reality, which is what a theoretical or conceptual model normally represents. Originally developed for the Nordic setting, this model is nonetheless transferable to all contexts, because it is in line with other international theoretical models. It is a conceptual model that built upon a modified version of the International Council of Nurse’s principles on advanced practice nursing and Hamric’s Model of Advanced Nursing Practice. The model encompasses central advanced practice nursing competency domains, critical contextual factors, and descriptions of central theoretical perspectives. Understanding of the model is deepened by relating it to an interpretative framework on patients’ need for nursing and care, i.e., a model for “the basis of good care.”