Developing Expertise in Critical Care Nursing

Professor Julie Scholes is Principal Lecturer in Research and Practice Development at the University of Brighton, with a national and international reputation in research and critical care.

Chapter 1: Defining critical care. Chapter 2: Defining expertise and the process of acquiring expertise: towards a contemporary definition of advanced practice. Chapter 3: Pre registration students. Chapter 4: Inducting the newcomer to critical care: developing competency based frameworks to enable practitioners to be effective in the critical care settings. Chapter 5: What is competence?. Chapter 6: The types of roles that have emerged in critical care and the way in which they have evolved. Chapter 7: Developing benchmarks for expert / advanced roles in critical care practice. Chapter 8: Research and development