Resumen de Designing and implementing an Advanced Nurse Practice in Critical Care programme from a university perspective within Northern Ireland
N. Devlin, M. Brown, Keir McCutcheon, L. Creighton
The number of advanced practice roles in healthcare is increasing in response to several factors such as changes in medical education, economic pressures, workforce shortages and the increasing complexity of health needs of the population. The Advanced Critical Care Practitioner Curriculum, developed by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in the UK (United Kingdom), enables the development and delivery of a structured education programme which can contribute to addressing these challenges. This article outlines how one university designed and implemented this programme, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland.
