Exploring Advanced Clinical Practitioner's Experience Developing Clinical Competence and Opinions on Role Identity

• Conditions: ACP; Nurse's Role; Development, Consensus
• Interventions: Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04183127
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sheffield

Brief Summary

In the United Kingdom, there is an urgent need to reshape the National Health Service (NHS) workforce to equip it to meet the changing demands of the population it serves and deliver the vision set out in the Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017) and recently published NHS Plan (2019). One of the key elements to this is the continuing development, support and utilisation of Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) roles.

Advanced Clinical Practitioners are educated to Masters Level in clinical practice and assessed as competent in practice using their expert clinical knowledge and skills. They have the freedom and authority to act, making their own decisions in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Although the level of education and assessment of competence are common for ACPs working in all areas, training and supervision varies between primary and secondary care, specialties and sites.

The proposed research will explore ACP experiences of how they develop clinical competence and their opinions on role identity, specifically:

* Factors that have influenced their clinical competency achievements.

* Training experience (clinical and external education opportunities)

* Experience of educational/ clinical supervision and its benefits.

* Self-identified knowledge gaps, with a focus on mental health.

* Future ACP role identity

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2019-11
• Study First Submitted: 2019-11-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-12-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-12-02
• Study First Posted: 2019-12-03
• Last Update Posted: 2019-12-03
• Study Start: 2020-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-07-31
• Study Completion: 2020-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 32

Inclusion Criteria

• Qualified ACP or trainee ACP who has completed at least 1 years (FTE) of ACP clinical training
• Currently working in this role within either Primary or Secondary Care and based in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to communicate in English

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
ACP	No intervention	ACPs, either qualified or in training, working in the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw area.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Experiences and views of ACPs regarding their experience of developing clinical competence and opinions on role identity [Time frame: 120 minutes]	Jan-Dec 2020	Focus groups will follow a topic guide to explore the factors which influence participants experience of clinical competence, training experience and supervision. The focus groups will also discuss participants feelings in relation to self-identified knowledge gaps (focusing on mental health) and the future ACP role identity.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Sheffield; 🇬🇧 Sheffield, United Kingdom