[...]... prescribe any licensed medicines for any medical condition with the exception of controlled Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses Edited by Matthew Grundy-Bowers and Jonathan Davies © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES drugs from spring 2006 onwards (DH, 2005) This is obviously going to have a huge impact on the way advanced practice nurses in sexual health work Finally,... that consultant nurses are advanced practitioners, sharing the same roles, skills and characteristics The role is concerned with adjusting boundaries; it is a catalyst for change and is a pioneer for strategic development, which is based on research Therefore the consultant nurse and advanced practitioner share similar sub-roles and skills (Manley, 1997) 10 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES Box Three... For departments to work shorter waiting times for urgent appointments and increasing access they will have to make better use of nurses skills and abilities, and the strategy acknowledges this: Nurses will have an expanded role as specialists and consultants’ (DH, 2001, p 26) 6 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES According to the position statement from the London Standing Conference for Nurses, ... mind, this book provides a valuable resource for nurses working towards, and at, advanced level in GUM, but the content is also transferable and relevant to nurses working in non-acute settings This book also provides a skill base for more junior nurses in GUM to aspire to Using a competency-based approach, many GUM nurses could develop their practice to an advanced level, using nurse prescribing and/or... risk and promote clinical effectiveness So with higher-level practice it was not just a matter of acquiring medical skills such as health assessment, and 14 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES they may have been nurses who would not fit into the advanced nurse practitioner’ as defined by the NMC but may contribute at a ‘higher level’ than an initial registration-level nurse The advanced practice... discussing advanced nursing practice, or otherwise the value of nursing could be lost at the expense of learning these excit- 18 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES ing new clinical skills In summary it would be fair to say that currently in the UK there are three levels of practice, not two, and these are initial, specialist and advanced With all this in mind this book is concerned with helping nurses. .. specialist nursing care for undifferentiated patients within the practice population 16.4 undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic techniques applied to individuals and groups within the practice population (UKCC, 1998) 12 ADVANCED CLINICAL SKILLS FOR GU NURSES ADVANCED PRACTICE Clearly, these points could also easily apply to advanced practice However, advanced practice... develop research-based clinical expertise (Lorensen et al., 1998) So what is advanced practice? This question raises a number of issues Having looked at the literature there still appears to be confusion about what advanced practice’ is Advanced practice is not about the acquisition of skills that doctors would normally have It is important to differentiate advanced clinical skills from advanced nursing... a rotational pharmacist and then as a GUM and HIV specialist Her role included providing advice on the appropriate use of medicines, aiding in the set-up of new GUM services (a sexual assault centre, for example), clinical audit, financial management of GUM drugs budgets and the writing of GUM drugs guidelines She was also involved in developing PGDs for use in GUM clinics and in training nursing staff... provide nurses with a clear understanding of what educational preparation and what clinical competency is needed Finally, it will reduce the number of titles used in practice For example, within the sexual health clinical setting the ‘HIV clinical nurse specialist’ might become advanced nurse practitioner (HIV)’ and ‘genito-urinary nurse practitioners’ may become advanced nurse practitioners’ (GUM) . alt="" Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses Edited by MATTHEW GRUNDY-BOWERS JONATHAN DAVIES John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses Advanced. prescribe any licensed medicines for any medical condition with the exception of controlled Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses. Edited by Matthew Grundy-Bowers