FinAME™ – Action Model of Expertise

The titles, roles and tasks of different type of nursing experts in healthcare are still partly inconsistent both nationally (Finland) and globally. The inconsistency creates barriers to utilisation of their expertise in evidence-based healthcare (EBHC). FinAME – the Action Model of Expertise™ describes and aims to standardise the roles and activities of different nursing experts in promoting evidence-based nursing.

The development of FinAME-model started in 2008. The first draft of the model (named at the time AME) was developed in Oulu University Hospital in Finland. The original AME-model was finalised in a Steering Group for Development of Nursing Care set up by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland) and published in the Action Plan ‘Increasing the effectiveness and attraction of nursing care by means of management’ by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (2009).

The model was further developed, and its latest update was published in 2022. During this latest update the model’s name was changed into FinAME-model, and it was expanded to include, besides clinical nursing professionals, also experts in leadership, education, research, and nursing informatics. In addition, the model was updated to reflect the phases of the JBI model of evidence-based healthcare, highlighting how different experts have their own areas of focus in the development and implementation of evidence-based nursing.

The later development of the model after the original 2009 publication has been conducted by Hotus in collaboration with the Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) working group, which operates in connection with the Finnish Nurses Association.