Overview:
Nursing Associate is a stand-alone role as well as also providing a route to Registered Nurse. It’s intended that the role will enable registered nurses to focus on more complex clinical duties. Nursing associates work in the public, independent and voluntary sectors and it is a statutorily regulated profession.Nursing associates are trained to work with people of all ages and across all four fields of nursing: adult, child, mental health and learning disability.
The broad purpose of the occupation is to provide care for people of all ages and from different backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. Nursing associates contribute to the promotion of health, health protection and the prevention of ill health. They do this by empowering people and communities to exercise choice, take control of their own health decisions and behaviours and by supporting people to manage their own care where possible.
