The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) model was launched in 2021 by NHS England’s Chief Nursing Officer, with the main aims of improving the health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce and to support nursing retention.
Professional Nurse Advocacy involves the A-EQUIP model (Advocating and Empowering for Quality Improvement) and the delivery of restorative clinical supervision.*
Professional Nurse Advocates support nursing colleagues through restorative clinical supervision, which can take place on either an individual or group basis.
The aims are to support nurses to reflect on situations in a safe space and to make sense and take forward learning.
PNAs also support nursing colleagues via career conversations or encouraging quality improvement.
Currently the number of PNAs across the organisation is growing steadily to meet a recommended target of a 1:20 PNA to nurse ratio.
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A-EQUIP Model
*This model is a professional leadership and restorative clinical supervision framework to support and guide the PNA in practice (A- Advocating and Educating for Quality ImProvement) developed from the Midwifery A-Equip Model.
This function of the A-EQUIP model addresses the need for nurses to be familiar with and contribute to quality improvement (QI), to help improve patient care.
