Community nursing: core specialist qualification
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Community nursing: core specialist qualification

Nick Evans Health journalist

The NMC’s new all-encompassing specialist practice qualification is for nurses working in any community setting

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has introduced an all-encompassing specialist practice qualification (SPQ) aimed at nurses working in any setting in the community, with the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) planning to build on this by producing a set of standards for nine different fields. Here is what is happening and what it means for nurses, employers and universities.

Nursing Children and Young People. 34, 6, 12-13. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.34.6.12.s6

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