Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach

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<p>Addressing all major advanced practice nursing competencies, roles, and issues, <b>Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach, 5th Edition</b> provides a clear, comprehensive, and current introduction to APN today. It applies APN core competencies to the major APN roles €• including the burgeoning Nurse Practitioner role €• and covers topics ranging from the evolution of APN to evidence-based practice, leadership, ethical decision-making, and health policy. This edition includes a new chapter on the international development of APN, new and enhanced illustrations, and a colorful new reader-friendly format for improved readability. From internationally known APN experts Ann Hamric, Charlene Hanson, Mary Fran Tracy, and Eileen O'Grady, along with a host of internationally recognized APN contributors, <b>Advanced Practice Nursing </b>introduces you to APN and helps you identify an APN role, develop key competencies for that role, and succeed as an APN.</p><p> <ol> </ol><b> </b> <ul><b><li>Coverage of APN core competencies </b>defines and describes<b> </b>all competencies, including direct clinical practice, guidance and coaching, consultation, evidence-based practice (EBP), leadership, collaboration, and ethical decision-making.</li><li><b>Operationalizes and applies APN core competencies to the major APN specialties</b> including the Clinical Nurse Specialist, the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, the Certified Nurse-Midwife, and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.<b> </b></li><li><b>Content on managing APN environments </b>addresses such factors as business planning and reimbursement; marketing, negotiating, and contracting; regulatory, legal, and credentialing requirements; health policy issues; and nursing outcomes and performance improvement research.</li><li><b>Unique <i>Exemplar </i>boxes </b>provide real-life scenarios, showing APN competencies in action.</li><li><b>In-depth discussions of educational strategies</b> show how nurses develop competencies as they progress into advanced practice.</li><li><b>Discussions of APN role development</b> clearly explain the career trajectory that you can anticipate as you transition to advanced practice.</li> </ul><ul><b><li>EXPANDED international focus </b>includes a NEW <i>International Development of Advanced Practice Nursing </i>chapter that addresses common issues such as the public image and status of APN, dealing with physician resistance, discrepancies in titling, and educational standardization.</li><li><b>ENHANCED reader-friendly format </b>includes more<b> </b>headings, tables, and illustrations in lieu of<b> </b>long stretches of unbroken text. </li><li><b>REVISED <i>Evidence-Based Practice</i> chapter </b>emphasizes the key competency of evidence-based practice (EBP) and includes a comprehensive history and explanation of the steps of the EBP process. </li><li><b>UPDATED <i>Health Policy</b></i> <b>chapter </b>covers key U.S. initiatives affecting APN including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Institute of Medicine€s <i>Future of Nursing</i> report, the <i>Consensus Model of APRN Regulation</i>, and how APNs can engage in the political process.</li><li><b>ENHANCED <i>Exemplar</i> boxes</b> (case studies), including <i>Day in the Life</i> vignettes of each APN specialty, emphasize innovative practices and coverage of advanced practice roles.</li><li><b>Increased interprofessional content </b>emphasizes<b> </b>the subjects of ethics, collaboration, and consultation.</li><li><b>Enhanced integration of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) considerations and literature</b> makes this text ideal for DNP programs.</li> </ul>