Why employ a nursing associate?

Why employ a nursing associate?

What is a nursing associate? Bridging role between healthcare support workers and registered nurses. Work with people of all ages in a variety of settings in health and social care. Trained to foundation degree level. Registered role. Provides progression route into graduate level nursing. @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates

Comparing NAs and nurses Source: NMC @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates

Why employ a nursing associate? Improve service delivery and patient care Enable nurses to undertake more advanced roles Improve staff retention through career progression ‘Grow your own’ nursing workforce Tried and tested NMCaccredited programme @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates

Improve service delivery and patient care Improved patient communication Assisting nurses with a greater range of caregiving responsibilities More patient-centred care/patient advocacy @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates

Improve service delivery and patient care Identifying and escalating patients with deteriorating health Displaying leadership qualities Exchanging skills, knowledge and good practice across settings @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates

Why employ a nursing associate? “Nursing associates are working in new ways, they are more engaged not just in the patient’s care, but also in the running of the ward and the supervision of some student nurses. What you find is that all staff on the ward start learning together and talking in a more proactive way about patient pathways and diseases.” Ward manager Source: Introduction of nursing associates – year 2 evaluation report, Traverse, October 2019 @NHS HealthEdEng #nursingassociates