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
practitioners in clinical settings
- A set of nurse practitioner metaspecialties (broad areas
of specialty) for clinical
- Empirical evidence of those elements of educational
governance in clinical settings
- A framework of governance for learning and teaching of
advanced clinical specialty
- Identification of learning and teaching strategies to
inform a capability approach for
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.
