Consultant level practice
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Consultant level practice
This section focuses on consultant-led sexual health and reproductive health care.
The journey around increasing practice in sexual health and reproductive health and wellbeing is about:
- expanding existing knowledge
- understanding the value of transferable skills and experience
- considering formal learning opportunities
- identifying and using reflective practice opportunities
- having a passion and enthusiasm for the subject.
We define consultant level nursing practice as “… a level which can only be delivered by registered nurses who have progressed from an advanced level within their field to reach a significantly higher level”.
All consultant level registered nurses should demonstrate Level 8 (Scottish equivalent Level 12) doctoral-level capabilities to act within highly abstract and complex contexts.
The concept of consultant-level nursing can be applied to the full range of registered nurses’ careers and not particular roles or specific organisational contexts.
It is differentiated from other levels by:
- expertise, backed by the credibility gained through the consultant's own professional practice
- strategic and enabling leadership, embracing the key skillset for systems leadership and systems transformation
- experience of learning, developing and enhancing and improving processes and systems
- using and embedding research and innovation into the role.
Further information
- Read more about consultant level nursing
- Publication: RCN Professional Development Framework Consultant Level Nursing
- Consultant level self-assessment tool for assessing capability in line with outlined standards.
Primary care
- Contraception – see above (this will link back to the content in the box marked Specialist Practice and Services)
- Cervical screening – see above (this will link back to the content in the box marked Specialist Practice and Services)
- Menopause
- Genito Urinary Medicine (GUM), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) & HIV
- Independent and supplementary medical prescribing/multi professional prescribing. Contact the local university and programme leads for details.
- Experience
- Reflective practice and trainer
- CoSRH trainer.
Integrated sexual health and reproductive health services
- Contraception – see above (this will link back to the content in the box marked Specialist Practice and Services)
- Cervical screening – see above (this will link back to the content in the box marked Specialist Practice and Services)
- Menopause
- Genito Urinary Medicine (GUM), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) & HIV
- STI Foundation Theory Course
- DSTIF(STI): STI Foundation Advanced Competency leads to a Diploma of the STI Foundation in Sexually Transmitted Infections
- DSTIF(HIV): HIV - STI Foundation NHIVNA Advanced leads to a Diploma of the STI Foundation in HIV
- BASHH STI/HIV eLearning hosted on NHS eLearning for Healthcare
- BASHH STI-HIV Theory Modules
- Dip GUM
- Independent and supplementary medical prescribing/multi-professional prescribing. Contact the local university and programme leads for details.
- CoSRH USS - Ultrasound Special Skills Module (SSM) - Theory Course
- Experience
- Reflective practice and trainer
- CoSRH Trainer.
