Advanced nurse practitioners are in charge of promoting and restoring patients` health, provide diagnosis and care in advanced settings, coordinating care within areas of chronic disease management, providing integrated care, and supervising assigned team members. advanced nurse practitioners are general care nurses who have acquired an expert knowledge base, complex decision making skills and clinical competencies for expanded clinical practice on advanced level.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Planning, providing and evaluating nursing care for patients according to the practice and standards of modern nursing;
(b) Coordinating the care of patients in consultation with other health professionals and members of health teams;
(c) Developing and implementing care plans for the biological, social and psychological treatment of patients in collaboration with other health professionals;
(d) Planning and providing personal care, treatments and therapies including administering medications, and monitoring responses to treatment or care plan;
(e) Cleaning wounds and applying surgical dressings and bandages
(f) Monitoring pain and discomfort experienced by patients and alleviating pain using a variety of therapies, including the use of painkilling drugs;
(g) Planning and participating in health education programmes, health promotion and nurse education activities in clinical and community settings;
(h) Answering questions from patients and families and providing information about prevention of ill-health, treatment and care;
(i) Supervising and coordinating the work of other nursing, health and personal care workers;
(j) Conducting research on nursing practices and procedures and disseminating findings such as through scientific papers and reports.