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This chapter explains the concepts of advanced practice nursing and advanced practice continence nursing. It describes advanced practice nursing and advanced practice continence nursing practice in four countries. It distinguishes between specialist and advanced nursing practice, introduces the reader to the global development of continence nursing as a specialization, describes the role profile of the nurse continence specialist, and proposes a set of competences and education from basic to advanced practice continence nursing care. This chapter includes information about the advanced practice approach to continence care for people with fecal incontinence and concludes with research about the effectiveness of nurses with advanced practice skills in continence care for people with fecal incontinence.
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Ostaszkiewicz, J., Peden-McAlpine, C., Northwood, M., Eustice, S., Bliss, D. Z., & Nishimura, K. (2018). Advanced practice continence nursing. In Management of Fecal Incontinence for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Under the Auspices of the International Continence Society (pp. 15–47). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90704-8_2
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