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Personal and Professional Development for Nursing Associates
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Personal and Professional Development for Nursing Associates

First edition


November 2025 | 176 pages | Learning Matters
Looking after yourself personally and knowing how you can develop professionally are essential to working safely and effectively as a nursing associate. Written specifically for students and apprentices, this book equips you with the skills to identify your goals, face challenges and opportunities and develop the key resilience, self-awareness and self-management skills you need for success. From accountability and stress management to employability and revalidation, it develops your confidence to understand your identity as a nursing associate and to progress in your future career.

Key features: 
• Fully mapped to the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nursing Associates
• Explains the principles of personal and professional development in clear, straightforward language, covering topics such as reflective practice, building professional relationships and being a role model. 
• Case studies and activities help you to plan and work towards your personal and professional goals and to build good habits. 
• Written specifically to address the unique transitions, experiences and requirements of the nursing associate role
 
Chapter 1: Knowing Self & Developing Self-awareness
 
Chapter 2: Reflective Practice
 
Chapter 3: Resilience for Professional Practice
 
Chapter 4: Role Modelling and Professional Relationships
 
Chapter 5: Accountability in Nursing Associate Practice
 
Chapter 6: Transitions & Professional Identity
 
Chapter 7: Employability Skills
 
Chapter 8: Continuing Professional Development and NMC Revalidation

Karen Alred

Karen Alred qualified as an EN at GOSH in the 1980’s, completed the RN(A) conversion and is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in School Nursing, registered NMC teacher and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previously Course Lead for the Assistant Practitioner and Nursing Associate Higher Apprenticeships at the University of Suffolk, she is currently working as a lecturer for the FdSc Nursing Associate Higher Apprenticeship at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She held a previous role within the RCN Education Forum Steering Group Committee. She uses her own experiences of learning to enable students to gain the most from... More About Author

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