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Consultation As A Challenge For Advanced Practice Nursing Role
Kusman Ibrahim, Boonvadee Petcharat
Universitas Padjadjaran, Songklanakarind Journal of Nursing No. 2 Vol. 26 ISSN 0125-8958 April-June 2006 Thailand
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Universitas Padjadjaran, Songklanakarind Journal of Nursing No. 2 Vol. 26 ISSN 0125-8958 April-June 2006 Thailand
Advanced practitioner nurse, Clinical nurse specialist, Consultation role
Nowadays as both the treatment of disease and health care technology become more complex, the value of nursing care is then required by enhancing clinical knowledge, skills and critical thinking in both providing the best quality of care and cost effectiveness. For these reasons, the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) or the advanced practitioner nurses (APN), who is a registered nurse holding a master or doctoral degree in nursing with expertise in a clinical nursing specialty, will be prepared as an expert practitioner to provide direct care, education and consultation to clients as well as to the health care team. In this regard, consultation becomes a challenging role for the CNS to improve the quality of nursing care and assist the health care team to develop independent nursing care. Consultation work focuses not only on collaboration with clients and the health care team, but also provides advanced nursing knowledge and skills. To achieve the goal of consultation effectively, a consultant must establish good relationships with consul tees as well as members of the health care team. Therefore, a consultant must be knowledgeable, skillful, and have a good attitude in order to be able to develop effective nursing care by utilizing research evidence or evidence-based practice.