Exploring Advanced Clinical Practitioner's Experience Developing Clinical Competence and Opinions on Role Identity

Nurse's Role Clinical Trial

Official title:

Exploring Advanced Clinical Practitioner's Experience Developing Clinical Competence and Opinions on Role Identity

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04183127
• Other study ID #: CHC-ACP2019
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: January 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: November 2019
• Source: University of Sheffield
• Contact: Maxine Kuczawski, MSc
• Phone: 01142222981
• Email: m.kuczawski[@]sheffield.ac.uk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

In the United Kingdom, there is an urgent need to reshape the National Health Service (NHS) workforce to equip it to meet the changing demands of the population it serves and deliver the vision set out in the Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017) and recently published NHS Plan (2019). One of the key elements to this is the continuing development, support and utilisation of Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) roles.

Advanced Clinical Practitioners are educated to Masters Level in clinical practice and assessed as competent in practice using their expert clinical knowledge and skills. They have the freedom and authority to act, making their own decisions in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Although the level of education and assessment of competence are common for ACPs working in all areas, training and supervision varies between primary and secondary care, specialties and sites.

The proposed research will explore ACP experiences of how they develop clinical competence and their opinions on role identity, specifically:

• Factors that have influenced their clinical competency achievements.

• Training experience (clinical and external education opportunities)

• Experience of educational/ clinical supervision and its benefits.

• Self-identified knowledge gaps, with a focus on mental health.

• Future ACP role identity

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Qualified ACP or trainee ACP who has completed at least 1 years (FTE) of ACP clinical training

• Currently working in this role within either Primary or Secondary Care and based in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to communicate in English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• ACP
• Development, Consensus
• Nurse's Role

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention
ACPs, qualified or in training, will be invited to participate by email. Interested participants will be provided with study materials and asked to complete an online eligibility questionnaire; if eligible, contact details will also be recorded. Participants will be invited to take part in a focus group about their experience in developing clinical competence and their opinions on role identity. Data collection will consist of focus groups.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of Sheffield	Sheffield

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Sheffield	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Faculty of Advanced Clinical Practice

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Experiences and views of ACPs regarding their experience of developing clinical competence and opinions on role identity [Time frame: 120 minutes]	Focus groups will follow a topic guide to explore the factors which influence participants experience of clinical competence, training experience and supervision. The focus groups will also discuss participants feelings in relation to self-identified knowledge gaps (focusing on mental health) and the future ACP role identity.	Jan-Dec 2020