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Published on: February 16, 2011
[Direct clinical practice: conceptual analysis. Central competence for the development of advanced nursing practice]
Miren Idoia Pardavila Belio1, Cristina G Vivar, Navidad Canga Armayor
1Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria y Materno Infantil, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Navarra. mpardavila@unav.es
Unlabelled:
The recent implementation in Spain of post degree in nursing has made possible the emergence of new advanced profiles, which direct clinical practice is the core competence.
Objective:
To analyse and clarify the term of direct clinical practice.
Methodology:
A conceptual analysis was carried out based on Rogers's evolutionary approach. A review of the literature was made in the following data bases: PubMed, CINAHL, ISI Web of Knowledge, Psych INFO (Ovid) and Cochrane Library. Furthermore, five books about advanced practice nursing were revised.
Results:
7 articles and 4 books based on the inclusion criteria were selected. After their analysis the concept of direct clinical practice is defined.
Conclusions:
This paper clarifies the concept of direct clinical practice and helps to have a stronger base of knowledge. This will serve as foundation to improve and perfect the conceptualization of this term.
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