The clinical pillar above all others: trainee advanced clinical practitioners’ perceptions of the four pillars

Lavery, J, Morrell-Scott, N and Flewitt, S (2025) The clinical pillar above all others: trainee advanced clinical practitioners’ perceptions of the four pillars. International Journal for Advancing Practice, 3 (2). ISSN 2753-5924

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Abstract

Background: Challenges persist for advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) because of the broad vision for the role and is application within the context of professional identity. ACPs must be competent and credible across all four pillars of advanced practice to deliver a recognised standard of care. Aim: This article explores the perceptions of trainee advanced clinical practitioners (tACPs) and what they view as the most and least important pillars of advanced practice, their reasoning for this opinion and the qualities they believe that ACPs should possess. Methods: The research employed a mixed-methods approach using a questionnaires with 29 participants. Results: Participants believed that the clinical pillar was the most important and that the other three were less important because of the requirement to be clinically competent. Conclusions: Participants identified barriers that prevented them from fulfilling all four pillars of the ACP role during their trainee positions.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Journal for Advancing Practice, copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/ijap.2024.0025
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions:	Nursing and Advanced Practice
Publisher:	Mark Allen Group
Date of acceptance:	29 November 2024
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2025 09:39
Last Modified:	09 May 2025 14:30
DOI or ID number:	10.12968/ijap.2024.0025
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26023

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