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.

Project Announcement No. 2

Project Announcement No. 2 September 10th, 2013
The CLLEVER study is a national study bringing together some of Australia’s leading researchers in the field of nurse practitioner education. CLLEVER is an acronym for CLinical LEarning & GoVERnance, a short title for the project:

Educating Nurse Practitioners: advanced specialty competence, clinical learning & governance. The project has been funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching.

The aim of this study is to develop a governance framework for learning and teaching of advanced specialty practice in the workplace. The project outcomes will include teaching and learning tools and a framework for teaching, learning and assessment in complex clinical workplace situations.

This project will use one or two specialty groups of nurse practitioners as the demonstration fields of practice to explore, articulate and document teaching and learning processes and learning outcomes.

The first two phases of the project are now complete and Phase 3 is ready to commence. Phase 3 is the case study in which nurse practitioner students and their academic and clinical supervisors will be interviewed to inform and validate an education governance framework. Our research team at QUT will start recruiting participants shortly.

Welcome to the CLLEVER Study

Welcome to the CLLEVER Study
The CLLEVER study is a national study bringing together some of Australia’s leading researchers in the field of nurse practitioner education. CLLEVER is an acronym for CLinical LEarning & GoVERnance, a short title for the project: Educating Nurse Practitioners: advanced specialty competence, clinical learning & governance.

CLLEVER will explore learning and teaching experiences of academic and clinical supervisors and nurse practitioner students. The number of advanced and specialist clinical practice degrees at Master’s level is increasing to meet the community’s healthcare needs. These degrees have a strong clinical focus with learning primarily conducted in the workplace, under the supervision of highly skilled professionals, but the final qualification is awarded by the university. This project will use nurse practitioner students as the demonstration field of practice to explore and document teaching and learning processes.

This blog is created to provide academics, students and any other interested members of the public to inform themselves about our project activities. The project team aims to keep this blog up to date with the most recent project activity.

 

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