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Identifying and addressing the challenges experienced by nursing associates
Gemma Ryan-Blackwell1, Nicola Genders1
1the Open University, Milton Keynes, England.
Nursing Management (Harrow, London, England : 1994)
|October 16, 2024
Summary
The new nursing associate role faces challenges like role ambiguity and curriculum issues. Understanding these threats is key to supporting nursing associates and improving patient care.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare professions
- Nursing workforce development
Background:
- The nursing associate role is a recent addition to the healthcare workforce, with initial registrants qualifying in 2019.
- Nursing associates support patient care under nurse supervision but face practice challenges due to task variations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the lived experiences of nursing associates.
- To understand the perspectives of healthcare professionals working with nursing associates.
- To identify weaknesses and threats impacting the nursing associate role.
Main Methods:
- A realist ethnographic approach was employed.
- Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 nursing associates.
- Focus groups were held with 8 healthcare professionals experienced in working with nursing associates.
Main Results:
- Three primary threat themes emerged: incivility and role ambiguity, curriculum and placement issues, and concerns regarding motivations and career opportunities.
- Five key entities influencing the nursing associate journey were identified: individual status, healthcare team dynamics, education providers, employing organizations, and nursing professional bodies.
Conclusions:
- A framework was developed to address identified weaknesses and threats.
- The framework proposes interventions to encourage, enable, empower, and ennoble nursing associates.
- Recommendations support the effective implementation of the nursing associate role in practice.
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