A quick reference list of specialized nursing professional standards and scopes of practice. Also see the Oncology Nursing page. (This page is under construction, suggestions welcome.)
AACN Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education provides a framework for preparing individuals as members of the discipline of nursing, reflecting expectations across the trajectory of nursing education and applied experience. These Essentials introduce 10 domains that represent the essence of professional nursing practice and the expected competencies for each domain.
Transplant Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (2016)Addresses what is expected of all transplant nurses, specifying the who, what, where, when, why, and how of their practice. This gives the context-the underlying assumptions, characteristics, environments and settings, education and training requirements, key issues and trends, and ethical and conceptual bases of transplant nursing-needed to understand and use the standards.