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Recognise Advanced Nurse Practitioners as playing a crucial role within the NHS
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1,646 signatures
What the petition asks
Advanced Nurse Practitioners are highly skilled, experienced clinicians educated to Masters level. They have played a crucial part in addressing the GP shortages within the NHS, yet the Government appears to have overlooked this. We seek funding of further ANP posts nationally and role recognition.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner role encompasses:-
● Making autonomous decisions for which they are accountable
● Treating patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and making an assessment of their health care needs based on physical examination, diagnosis, prescribing and referring
● Ordering necessary clinical investigations
● Making differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills
Ref: https://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/146478/003207.pdf
● Making autonomous decisions for which they are accountable
● Treating patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and making an assessment of their health care needs based on physical examination, diagnosis, prescribing and referring
● Ordering necessary clinical investigations
● Making differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills
Ref: https://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/146478/003207.pdf
Timeline
| 9 Sep 2015 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 9 Mar 2016 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
1,646
Status
Closed
Opened
9 Sep 2015
Closed
9 Mar 2016
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