Description
Book SynopsisCovers all APN specialties, including nurse educator and nurse administrator. The book provides the foundational content for all advanced practice nursing students in a course on professional role development, and presents practical information balanced with theory.
Table of Contents
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The Evolution of Advanced Practice
- Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels
- Emerging Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Role Development: A Theoretical Perspective
- Education for Advanced Practice
- Global Perspectives on Advanced Nursing Practice
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The Practice Environment
- Payment for Advanced Practice Nurse Services
- Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority
- Credentialing and Clinical Privileges for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
- The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice
- Participation of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Health Plans and Quality Initiatives
- Resource Management
- Mediated Roles: Working Through Other People
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Competency in Advanced Practice
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing
- The Advanced Practice Nurse and Research
- The Advanced Practice Nurse and Complementary Therapies
- Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Culture as a Variable in Practice
- Conflict Resolution: An Essential Competency in Advanced Practice
- Leadership for APNs: If Not Now, When?
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Ethical, Legal, and Business Acumen
- Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse Performance: Outcome Indicators, Models of Evaluation, and the Issue of Value
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Accomplishments, Trends, and Future
- Starting a Practice and Practice Management
- The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: Legal and Contractual Considerations
- The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Malpractice and the Advanced Practice Nurse
- Ethics and the Advanced Practice Nurse
Index
Bonus Chapters on DavisPlus
Promoting Advanced Practice Nurses to the Public
Reporting Relationships: Follow the Money