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

First edition
December 2025 | 168 pages | Learning Matters
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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

This handbook constitutes an essential resource for nursing associate students, supporting them to develop core skills for  completing the academic programme. There are clear links to the nursing associate standards and to the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for practice as a nursing associate. It signposts relevant support systems throughout the programme, based on individualised analysis of the nursing associate student’s experience and development needs, using SMART goals as the basis for action. Activities within the text support nursing associate students to apply skills for developing reflection and critical analysis, extending into practice as a registered nursing associate, including preparing for interviews and progression within the role over time.

Tanya Andrewes
Bournemouth University