Ian Peate - The Nursing Associate at a Glance

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Ian Peate OBE FRCN

Principal, School of Health Studies

Gibraltar Health Authority

Gibraltar

This edition first published 2021

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Nursing, being a practice‐based discipline, requires the theoretical knowledge provided to be grounded in practice so as to facilitate professional competence with regard to fitness for practice, purpose, award as well as professional standing.

The role of the Nursing Associate was developed in response to a number of key policies and drivers, including the NHS Five Year Forward Plan (NHS, 2014), Shape of Caring: Raising the Bar (Health Education England (HEE) 2015), Nursing Associate Curriculum Framework (HEE, 2017) and the Skills for Health (2017) Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Standards. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) confirmed in January 2017 that the Nursing Associate will be a new regulated nursing role, in England, from January 2019.

In response to the NMC’s confirmation that it would become the Nursing Associate regulator, actions needed to be taken to ensure that standards were in place. Standards were produced in 2018 for the Nursing Associate proficiencies (NMC, 2018a) and for Nursing Associate programmes (NMC, 2018b). The NMC revised its Code of Conduct in 2018 to include the Nursing Associate (NMC, 2018c).

Locally, nationally and globally, health and care settings are experiencing complex challenges. There has been an increased demand on services with the imperative that patients receive the right care, at the right time and in the right place. Key to this is the building of new health and care partnerships, integrating care provision and developing new roles. The Nursing Associate role is a response to the need to develop the healthcare support worker role and to offer support to the Registered Nurse. A role in its own right, the Nursing Associate acts as a bridge between, and complements, the unregulated healthcare workforce and the Registered Nurse. Furthermore, it widens access to further career development as a Registered Nurse.

Approved Nursing Associate programmes are aimed at individuals who are employed in health and care settings. Programmes of study have to be flexible, authentic work‐based learning programmes that develop competent, confident and compassionate Nursing Associates who will be proficient in the provision of high‐quality, safe and responsive person‐centred care that traverses the lifespan in a variety of diverse settings. As programmes of study involve learning from practice , and learning in practice , they draw upon the principles of work‐based learning in supportive environments.