Advanced Practice Nursing in the Health System: evolution, acceptance and recognition
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24875/10372088Keywords:
Advanced Practice Nursing, Primary Care Nursing, Nursing Education, Specialized Nursing, Nursing RoleAbstract
Introduction: About 5.9 millions healthcare professionals lack across the world. The Advanced Practice Nursing (APN), has specific knowledge, competences, and clinical abilities to act in medical absence, taking care from acute illness until chronic diseases, preserving both mental and physical health.
Objective: To determine the Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) performance in the Health Sector.
Methods: A systematic review about APN, including reviews and original articles from the period 2013-2022 in Spanish and English, about performance: evolution, acceptance and recognition. For the identification, screening, and inclusion of the articles the PRISMA 2020 model was used.
Results: Of 838 total identified articles, 20 articles were included from the search and 7 from other sources such as citations and other websites, obtaining 27 total articles to be reviewed, which regard the evolution, acceptance and recognition. A qualitative analysis was performed.
Conclusions: The APN performance arose because of demands for primary health care; several countries already have APN, providing care to inhabitants through their different specialties. APN is diverse and extensive, its professionalization must be continuous and permanent. In Mexico there is still some way to go to APN to take part in the multidisciplinary team.
Keywords: Advanced Practice Nursing; Primary Care Nursing; Nursing Education; Specialized Nursing; Nursing Role
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