Twitter Chat - Nursing Associates within Critical Care - your thoughts?
1st Oct 2020
Twitter Chat - Nursing Associates within Critical Care - your thoughts?
Moderated by Trish McCready #baccnassociate
Date and Time: 1st October 2020 19:00- 20:00
Subject: Nursing Associates in Critical Care
This chat will be moderated by: Trish McCready (@TrishMcCready) on behalf of the BACCN using @BACCNUK with the following hashtag: #BACCNNA
BACCN Twitter Chat was launched during the #BACCNConf2016 in Glasgow and it’s been great exploring all your views and opinions on subjects that matters to us all.
This Twitter chat will explore people’s experiences and thoughts of employing Nursing Associates, the barriers, and benefits.
In 2015, the government announced the creation of a new role, that of nursing associate (NA), which was identified as an additional tier in the nursing profession that would fill the gap between healthcare assistants (HCAs) and registered nurses (RNs). The new role would create a pathway for career progression and an additional route to becoming an RN.
At the beginning of the year Trish McCready attended a meeting with the CC3N on behalf of the BACCN. The aim of the meeting was to start putting together national competencies for nursing associates working within the critical care.
Q1) What do you feel are the benefits to nursing associates in critical care?
Q2) What do you feel are the barriers to nursing associates in critical care?
Q3) Does your unit employ nursing associates? What are your thoughts and experiences?
What’s been your experience, ideas or views? Let’s talk #BACCNNA within critical care.
Reading list:
Critical Care Networks – National Nurse Leads (2018) National Competency Framework for Registered Practitioners: Level 1 – Patients and Enhanced Care Areas.
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society (2019) Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services.
Bates L (2019) Developing the nursing associate role in a critical care unit. Nursing Times [online]; 115: 10, 21-24.