Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Nurse Practitioner) (MC-ANPNP) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Direct comprehensive care:

Provide safe, effective, person-centred health care to consumers

• Use diagnostic tests judiciously to appropriately inform the health assessment.
• Interpret and synthesise scientific and consumer data to inform diagnostic decision making.
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments, which respect individual diversity and acknowledge the social determinants of health.
• Develop comprehensive consumer focused health care plans that reflect health care team, consumer and family collaboration and negotiated healthcare goals and respects individual diversity.
• Promote quality, continuity and coordination of care by consulting and/or liaising with other clinicians (including other disciplines), health care services/organisations and other agencies.
• Competently and effectively use a variety of evidence based therapeutic (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) modalities to address healthcare needs.
• Demonstrate quality use of medicines, which is in accordance with relevant legislation and regulation.
• Negotiate referral and transition of consumer care to alternative health care clinicians to promote optimal health outcome.
• Review therapeutic impact of care and where appropriate modify therapeutic plans to better meet agreed healthcare goals
• Provide comprehensive and appropriate health education which is adapted to consumer and family health literacy.
• Identify and respond to clinical risk to minimise consumer harm.

Support of systems:

Influence health care systems and services to achieve better outcomes for consumers, their families, health care providers, the community and the health care system

• Establish partnerships between consumers and the health care team to identify outcome based service &/or improvement initiatives.
• Critique heath service models and policies and recognise their impact on consumer access to service, service costs and efficiency and the quality and effectiveness of service.
• Promotes, plans and leads service &/or practice improvement initiatives.
• Make consumer focused clinical decisions that reflect accountability for consumption of resources and the impact on the service.
• Advocate for patient, community, service, discipline needs in a wide range of forums.
• Establish effective methods for evaluation to determine the impact of service and service and/or practice improvement initiatives.

Education:

Educate self & others (consumers, health care professionals etc) regarding the focus of & available options for care

• Negotiate appropriate plans using a range of strategies to meet learning needs of the consumer and their families .
• Collaborate with consumers and their families and colleagues to identify their learning needs and establish their health literacy.
• Support colleagues to identify and address learning needs using a range of strategies and resources.
• Act as an educator and/or mentor to colleagues.
• Identify and address own learning needs to ensure maintenance of high standards of evidence based practice.
• Evaluate the acquisition of knowledge and skill in those receiving education.

Research:

Apply evidence to practice, identify the clinical evidence gaps and inform and contribute to future clinical and research inquiry to address these gaps

• Appraise and critique available evidence to expand discipline-specific knowledge and identify significant gaps in the clinical evidence base.
• Promote and demonstrate evidence based practice.
• Plan and implement consumer centred care which is supported by the best available evidence.
• Lead or contribute to research aimed at addressing clinical evidence gaps.
• Embed evaluation methodology in all aspects of service and practice.
• Implement evidence-based innovations to improve clinical care and service effectiveness.

Publication and professional leadership:

Demonstrate professional and clinical leadership in clinical, organisational, political and community forums and make scholarly contribution to the discipline and/or specialty

• Use influence and leadership to promote growth and development in colleagues.
• Establish effective inter-professional collaborations and lead clinical teams.
• Influence and/or lead health-care planning, system innovation, workforce reform or policy or practice change and improvement initiatives via organisational, governmental or professional body committees etc.
• Promote the role, specialty and discipline in a range of political, community and discipline-specific and inter-professional forums.
• Recognise the impact of national health priorities and health care policy on the NP role and identify development opportunities.
• Make scholarly contribution to the discipline and/or specialty via publication, presentation etc.

The Melbourne Experience enables our graduates to become:

Academically excellent

• have a strong sense of intellectual integrity and the ethics of scholarship
• have in-depth knowledge of their specialist discipline(s)
• reach a high level of achievement in writing, generic research activities, problemsolving and communication
• be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning
• be adept at learning in a range of ways, including through information and communication technologies

Knowledgeable across disciplines

• examine critically, synthesise and evaluate knowledge across a broad range of disciplines
• expand their analytical and cognitive skills through learning experiences in diverse subjects
• have the capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems
• have a set of flexible and transferable skills for different types of employment

Leaders in communities

• initiate and implement constructive change in their communities, including professions and workplaces
• have excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, including an awareness of personal strengths and limitations
• mentor future generations of learners
• engage in meaningful public discourse, with a profound awareness of community needs

Attuned to cultural diversity

• value different cultures
• be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work
• have an understanding of the social and cultural diversity in our community
• respect indigenous knowledge, cultures and values

Active global citizens

• accept social and civic responsibilities
• be advocates for improving the sustainability of the environment
• have a broad global understanding, with a high regard for human rights, equity and ethics

As a graduate of the Master of Nurse Practitioner the graduate will have the advanced discipline specific knowledge and skills to:

• Provide safe, effective, person-centred health care to consumers (direct and comprehensive care).
• Influence health care systems and services to achieve better outcomes for consumers, their families, health care providers, the community and the health care system (support of systems).
• Educate self and others (consumers, health care professionals etc) regarding the focus of and available options for care (education).
• Apply evidence to practice, identify the clinical evidence gaps and inform and contribute to future clinical and research inquiry to address these gaps (Research).
• Demonstrate professional and clinical leadership in clinical, organisational, political and community forums and make scholarly contribution to the discipline and/or specialty (publication and professional leadership).