Welcome to the "Welsh Nurse Practitioner
Association" (WNPA) WebPages.
The WNPA provides a forum specifically for qualified and student
Nurse Practitioners working in Wales but also for all others who are in any way
involved in developing, enabling or enacting that role.
The WNPA believes that the Nurse Practitioner
role is complex and that it is evident and demonstrated by advanced clinical practice, and
that such practice is supported by an extensive clinical and theoretical educational
foundation.
The WNPA was originally formed in the 1990's by a small group of
Nurses who had undertaken the Nurse Practitioner Degree provided at the School of Health
Science (SHS), University of Wales Swansea.
In 1999 original members of the WNPA and key academic staff at the SHS formed a new
committee which aimed to review professional issues pertaining to Nurse Practitioner
education and development. The 'Nurse Practitioner Education and Development Group'
(NPEDG) quickly became a forum that would unite the WNPA and other key professionals in
the professional advancement of Nurse Practitioners in Wales.
The title NPEDG has now been dropped in favour of the original title "The Welsh Nurse
Practitioner Association" (WNPA) - reflecting the innovation of the original
individuals who have done so much.
The WNPA seeks to:
Provide a professional forum for all practising
and student NP’s in Wales
Establish a network throughout Wales for Nurse
Practitioners
Develop information resources for Nurse
Practitioners in Wales
Consider and review educational resources for
Nurse Practitioners in Wales
THE NURSE PRACTITIONER
A nurse who has undertaken specific undergraduate study,
who is responsible for autonomous clinical decisions, who uses skills not usually
exercised by nurses in differential diagnosis, screens patients for disease, develops
preventative care management and who may refer or discharge patients.
The WNPA is co-ordinated by a core committee (Acting Committee).
Full committee membership will be by election at the inaugural event in April 2001 in
accord with the group constitution.
Your suggestions are welcome. Email Web Master -
Dave Barton at:
The WNPA is a strictly voluntary, non profit
making Association.
All moneys earned from WNPA events are utilised to further the Associations activities.
A statement of accounts will be available from the WNPA Treasurer and on this Website.
