Project Announcement No. 8: Final Report

Project Announcement No. 8 December 17, 2014: Final Report

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce that the final report submitted to the Office for Learning and Teaching is now publicly available here.

The CLLEVER study investigating team particularly want to acknowledge and thank the participants for their contribution.

The executive summary of the final report is available on the resources page of the blog.

The outcomes of the study are:

•  A literature review and annotated bibliography of literature relevant to the

            governance of advanced specialty competency learning and teaching for healthcare

            practitioners in clinical settings

• A set of nurse practitioner metaspecialties (broad areas of specialty) for clinical

           practice in healthcare

• Empirical evidence of those elements of educational governance in clinical settings

           requiring strengthening

• A framework of governance for learning and teaching of advanced clinical specialty

           competence

• Identification of learning and teaching strategies to inform a capability approach for

          academic liaison staff, clinical supervisors or mentors and post-graduate students.

 The following recommendations are made:

Recommendation directed at universities that offer Nurse Practitioner Masters programs:

1. The six metaspecialties and the areas of need identified in Phase 3 are used to guide post-graduate learning and teaching for nurse practitioner students.

Uptake: This Final Report (once released by the OLT) will be included as reference material to provide empirical evidence for the review of the Nurse Practitioner accreditation standards, currently being undertaken by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC).

Recommendations directed at healthcare providers, the nurse practitioner profession and other health professional groups:

2. The six metaspecialties are used to guide career development for nurse practitioners.

Uptake: Queensland Health is using the metaspecialties to guide NP scope of practice for prescribing and medication management.

3. Applicability of the metaspecialty list to other health professional groups should be explored, particularly in terms of their utility to inform optimal groupings of professionals to collaborate in learning and teaching.

Recommendation directed at the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) and other professional groups with nurse practitioner members:

4. Examples are developed to assist nurse practitioners and others to understand the way that the metaspecialties can be used as tools for guiding clinical learning and teaching.

Recommendations directed at the health service research community and research funding bodies:

5. Further research is undertaken to validate the metaspecialty groupings.

6. Further research is undertaken to develop a framework for educational governance of advanced specialty learning and teaching in the clinical workplace.

7. Further research is undertaken to explore the way that the metaspecialties can be used as tools for guiding clinical learning and teaching.

Uptake: A research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant is currently underway and will address Recommendations 5, 6 and 7.

 

Project Announcement No. 7

Project Announcement No. 7 October 21, 2014: Metaspecialties Update

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce that an outcome of Phase 2 of the study- the development of metaspecialties to group specialist nurse practitioner areas of practice - have been taken up by Queensland Health.

The Nursing and Midwifery Office, Queensland Health is using the metaspecialty groupings to define areas of practice for a practice scope register for prescribing medications under the Drug Therapy Protocol. The Queensland Health webpage is here.

The metaspecialities developed in CLLEVER are currently being confirmed by a national Delphi study. Mr Chris Helms is conducting the study as part of his doctoral research program. The Delphi study is nested in an ARC funded research project (named CLLEVER2) that builds on CLLEVER findings.

More information about the Delphi study can be found here.

Project Announcement No. 6 Outputs

Project Announcement No. 6 October 15th, 2014 – CLLEVER study outputs

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce that the following study outputs have been uploaded to the blog resources here.

The outputs to date include:

1. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘Advanced specialty competence and clinical learning for health professionals: how is it being progressed in clinical settings?’ Personally Arranged Learning Session, Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators Annual Conference, 24 – 27 June 2013, Melbourne.

2. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning & GoVERnance’. Oral presentation, Canberra Health Annual Research Meeting, 20-23 August 2013, Canberra.

3. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning & GoVERnance.’ Invited presentation, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners 8th Annual Conference, 24-27 September 2013, Hobart.

4. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning & GoVERnance Project.’ Poster, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners 8th Annual Conference, 24-27 September 2013, Hobart.

5. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘Education of nurse practitioners: Findings of a project exploring advanced specialty competence, clinical learning and governance.’ Poster presentation, Canberra Health Annual Research Meeting, 11-14 August 2014, Canberra.

6. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘Education of nurse practitioners: findings from a study exploring advanced specialty standards, clinical learning and governance.’ Invited presentation, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners 9th Annual Conference, 1-4 September 2014, Sydney.

7. Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘Education of nurse practitioners: findings from a study exploring advanced specialty standards, clinical learning and governance.’ Oral presentation, 3rd Biennial Australian Capital Region Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre Conference, 16-17 October 2014, Canberra.

 

Project Announcement No. 5

Project Announcement No. 5 May 28th, 2014 – YouTube audio interview with Professor Anne Gardner outlining the CLLEVER study

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce that a short Youtube interview outlining the study has been uploaded in the blog resources here

The video is a 5 minute audio interview with the lead investigator, Professor Anne Gardner, outlining:

•  How the CLLEVER study came about,

•  How the study will benefit nurse practitioners and the health system generally,

• What the investigators hope to see come out of the study, and

• How people can help with the study.

Please look out for a future Youtube video which will be posted soon announcing the study findings.

Project Announcement No. 4

Project Announcement No. 4 April 29th, 2014

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce an update of activities.

Thank you to interview participants and participants who provided teaching and learning documents. Data collection is now complete and the CLLEVER study investigating team sincerely thanks the participants for their time and efforts in participating.

Analysis of the interviews and teaching and learning documents is now underway.

To date, the study has made a number of presentations listed below, and a paper has been submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

Publications to date:

Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘Advanced specialty competence and clinical learning for health professionals: how is it being progressed in clinical settings?’ Personally Arranged Learning Session, Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators Annual Conference, 24 – 27 June 2013, Melbourne.

Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. Oral presentation, ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning & GoVERnance’.Canberra Health Annual Research Meeting, 20-23 August 2013, Canberra.

Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning & GoVERnance.’ Invited presentation, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners 8th Annual Conference, 24-27 September 2013, Hobart.

Gardner A., Gardner G., Coyer F., Henderson A., Gosby H., Lenson S. ‘The CLLEVER Study: NP Clinical Learning& GoVERnance Project.’ Poster presentation, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners 8thAnnual Conference, 24-27 September 2013, Hobart.

 

 

 

 

 

Project Announcement No. 3

Project Announcement No. 3 April 9th, 2014

The CLLEVER study investigating team would like to announce that an updated literature review of nurse practitioner competencies is available in the Resources page.

Nurse Practitioner Speciality Clinical Competencies: An Annotated Bibliography was first produced in February 2013 from the limited literature available at that time.

Since then, several new US nurse practitioner competencies have been published, including the specialty areas of Paediatric Acute Care,Paediatric Primary Care, Neonatal care, Women’s Health, Family/Across the Lifespan care, and Psychiatric-Mental Health, in one document. Additionally, revised Psychiatric-Mental Health competencies that supersede the previous version have also been published.

The updated bibliography provides concise summaries of seven papers that articulate twelve specialty nurse practitioner competencies and their methods of development.