Professional Practice in Nursing: A Framework

The Vanderbilt Professional Nursing Practice Program: part 1: Growing and supporting professional nursing practice.

Professional practice programs are designed to attract, retain, and reward nurses. This three-part series will describe Vanderbilt's performance-based career advancement system, the Vanderbilt Professional Nursing Practice Program (VPNPP). Part 1 outlines the overall program's foundation, philosophical background, and basic structure. The VPNPP is built upon Benner's work, distinguishing among ...

Instructional Approaches A Framework for Professional Practice

How to report professional practice in nursing? A scoping review.

BACKGROUND Nursing professional practice in different contexts of care has been widely described in evidence-based literature. Currently, there is no consensus on a common structure for these descriptions. Understanding and comparing similar practices is made difficult by the varying nature of descriptions provided in scientific literature. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 1) to report research methods f...

A conceptual framework for nursing practice.

ICNP ®: a standardized terminology to describe professional nursing practice.

As a resultant of the activity of attributing meaning to the world of nursing, we have, throughout our history, not only elaborated, but also systematically communicated a specific body of knowledge, applicable to any of the fields of professional practice – teaching, healthcare provision, research and management/ administration of nursing care. For this specific body of knowledge to take shape...