Pillars of Practice
The NHS Education for Scotland Multiprofessional Advanced Practice (AP) Toolkit is now live and can be used by service leads and managers to support service redesign, succession planning, recruitment drives and includes information on how to support the advanced practice workforce – Advanced practice toolkit | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)
The Four Pillars in Advanced Practice
In Advanced Practice the four pillars are depicted as discrete elements. The standard four pillars visual shows each pillar as being isolated from the next.
Within the pharmacy profession the pillars of practice are described differently from NMAHP, with the clinical pillar divided into two domains:
- Person-centred care and Collaboration
- Professional Practice
Overall, the basic principles and values remain consistent across the multidisciplinary professions.
Interconnecting pillars of practice...
In remote and rural areas when dealing with complex and overlapping demands on practitioner’s time, skills and resources, an integrated approach is needed to achieve the Triangle of Rural Advanced Practice Capability as shown below.
Achieving the Triangle of Rural Advanced Practice Capability
The ’hub and spoke’ style graphic shows the relationship between these elements and visually represents the dynamic and integrative ways in which they operate and influence each other. The standard four pillars visual shows each pillar as being isolated from the next. Our graphic unifies these pillars in an inclusive way that suggests movement, flow and synthesis.
Rural Advanced Practice Capability Cogs
Click on a cog to view more information.
In this section you can access pillar specific information by selecting the cog of your choice.
