What is it about?
This article outlines an evaluation of the innovative District Nurse Advanced Nurse Practitioner role (DNANP), the first role of its kind to be introduced in Scotland. The evaluation describes the impact the DNANP role has had on the transformation of District Nursing services, in East Dunbartonshire (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) across the four pillars of professional practice: clinical practice, learning and education, research and development, and leadership.
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Why is it important?
District Nursing services are experiencing increasing pressures related to escalating complexity, an increasing ageing population, and need to reduce avoidable hospital admissions. Improving the recognition of a deteriorating patient, increasing frailty, and embedding future care planning in clinical practice, is reliant on District Nursing services being appropriately supported to transform. Our findings from this evaluation outlines the positive impact this role is having on transformation, patient safety, and preferred place of care.
Perspectives
District Nursing services are central to safely shifting care from hospital to a homely setting. The introduction of the DNANP role is proving to be transformational in developing services to respond to this shift whilst creating an attractive career pathway for specialist practitioner district nurses, subsequently improving staff retention and retaining experience within the service .
Michelle Dalgarno
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
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This page is a summary of: The impact of the district nurse advanced nurse practitioner role on the transformation of district nursing, British Journal of Community Nursing, February 2025, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjcn.2024.0017.
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