As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• analyse quality of nurse care
• apply context specific clinical competences
• apply nursing care in long-term care
• apply person-centred care
• carry out nurse-led discharge
• clinical decision-making at advanced practice
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• conduct research in advanced nursing care
• contribute to continuity of health care
• contribute to high level health strategic decisions
• coordinate care
• develop advanced health promotion strategies
• develop plans related to the transfer of care
• diagnose advanced nursing care
• diagnose nursing care
• empower individuals, families and groups
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• evaluate nursing care
• implement nursing care
• lead research activities in nursing
• make clinical decisions
• mentor other health professionals
• organise homecare for patients
• participate in health personnel training
• perform health assessment
• plan advanced nursing care
• prescribe advanced nursing care
• prescribe medication
• promote inclusion
• provide nursing advice on healthcare
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• screen patients for disease risk factors
• solve problems in healthcare
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• use electronic health records in nursing
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, an advanced nurse practitioner is also versed in:

• adapt leadership styles in healthcare
• address problems critically
• adhere to organisational guidelines
• advise on healthy lifestyles
• apply organisational techniques
• apply sustainability principles in health care
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• follow clinical guidelines
• have computer literacy
• impact of social contexts on health
• implement fundamentals of nursing
• implement policy in healthcare practices
• implement scientific decision making in healthcare
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• initiate life preserving measures
• interact with healthcare users
• lead healthcare services changes
• listen actively
• manage information in health care
• manage personal professional development
• promote a positive image of nursing
• promote human rights
• provide health education
• provide professional care in nursing
• respond to changing situations in health care
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• perform venous cannulation
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care