Advanced Practice Provider Critical Care Boot Camp: A Simulation-Based Curriculum.

ABSTRACT: The demand for advanced practice providers (APPs) is increasing across the United States to meet necessary provider staffing requirements including in intensive care settings. Currently, participation in formal postgraduate training programs, or residencies, for APPs is not required for clinical practice, such that most of the APPs immediately enter into the workforce following completion of their initial graduate-level training. Consequently, this results in a supervised training period until APPs develop the necessary competencies to practice more autonomously. Educational programs that support specialty competency development may facilitate the transition of APPs into clinical practice, allowing them to be credentialed to perform essential procedures as quickly as possible. The goal of

SUBMITTER: Ahmed RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature