I started my career in critical care nursing in 2007 only a few months after graduating as a registered nurse. I knew early on in my nurse training that I wanted to work in ICU...
Written by David Cartlidge
Written by David Cartlidge
ACCP
HEE’s Centre for Advanced Practice and HEE National Adult Critical Care Team are collaborating to accelerate workforce expansion for ACCPs
HEE and FICM have agreed that the role of ACCPs will cease to fall under the scope of the Medical Associate Professions (MAP) and will instead be formally aligned with the Centre for Advancing Practice
Optional Skills Framework containing competencies to enable Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs) to safely undertake Advanced Airway Management in Critical Care
Optional Skills Framework containing competencies to enable ACCPs to diagnose circulatory death in the context of DCD organ donation
ACCP opinion poll for ongoing engagement with Medical Associate Professionals [MAP] programme for non-FICM members
Feedback from ICM Trainees and patients on ACCPs at work
Views from those who work as ACCPs and those who work alongside them
The majority of registered ACCPs are nurses but other Allied Health Professionals such physiotherapists have also successfully trained
Mental Health Act 1983 ‘holding powers’ and ACCPs