A regional guide to the development of nursing specialist practice
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
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12 p.
There has been no global agreement on what constitutes a nursing specialty leading to a lack of consistency in titling scope of practice education standards and regulatory control both within and across countries. This short guide formulated by the Regional Advisory Panel on Nursing in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region is intended to support policy-makers professional regulatory authorities nurses and other health professionals in their efforts to develop a coherent approach to nursing specialist practice. It describes three levels of specialist practice – extended expanded and advanced – with the professional title educational requirements and regulatory mechanism for each level.
There has been no global agreement on what constitutes a nursing specialty leading to a lack of consistency in titling scope of practice education standards and regulatory control both within and across countries. This short guide formulated by the Regional Advisory Panel on Nursing in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region is intended to support policy-makers professional regulatory authorities nurses and other health professionals in their efforts to develop a coherent approach to nursing specialist practice. It describes three levels of specialist practice – extended expanded and advanced – with the professional title educational requirements and regulatory mechanism for each level.