QNI Field Specific Standards

Field Specific Standards for Specialisms in Community Nursing

The Queen’s Nursing Institute has been working with representatives from health and social care organisations from the four countries of the UK to develop Field Specific Standards for nine fields of practice in community nursing. Representatives include national organisations, academics, managers, clinicians, front line staff, and service users/patients/experts by experience/carers/families. We are very grateful to all those who contributed to the process. Standards are available for the following specialisms: 

• Adult Social Care Nursing
• Community Children’s Nursing
• Community Mental Health Nursing
• District Nursing
• General Practice Nursing
• Inclusion Health Nursing
• Health and Justice Nursing
• Community Learning Disability Nursing
• Palliative and End of Life Care Nursing

Note on Mapping

The QNI Field Specific Standards for Specialist Practitioner Qualifications (SPQ) have been built on the NMC SPQ standards (NMC 2022) and are mapped to those standards where this was considered necessary. They are also mapped to the four Pillars of Advanced Practice. 

The four pillars (domains) of advanced practice as described by the Health Education England Advanced Practice Toolkit Framework (2017) are:

• Domain 1 – Clinical Care
• Domain 2 – Leadership and Management
• Domain 3 – Education and Assessing Learning
• Domain 4 – Evidence, Research and Development.

Enquiries

If you or your institution would like to express interest in our Field Specific Standards for SPQs, or you have any queries, please contact us using the form. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.