Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts for Professional Role Development

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This is a valuable resource?to help prepare advanced practice nurses with the skills necessary to navigate the healthcare arena. The editors and contributors are experienced advanced practice nurses with valuable information to share with novice practitioners. Score: 100, 5 stars

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Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed book remains the key title serving graduate-level advanced practice nurses (APNs) and recent graduates about to launch their careers. The book outlines what is required of the APN, with guidelines for professional practice for each of the four APN roles: the nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse midwife, and certified registered nurse anesthetist.

Advanced Practice Nursing focuses not only on the care and management of patients, but also on how to meet the many challenges of the rapidly changing health care arena. Obtaining certification, navigating reimbursement, and translating research into practice are just a few of the challenges discussed.

Key features:

• Essential information on educational requirements and certification
• Advice on how to make the transition into professional practice
• Guidelines for ethical and clinical decision making
• Discussions on the DNP and CNL roles in AP nursing
• Updated and revised content on leadership development, regulation, informatics, health care organization, and health care policy

"This is a valuable resource .to help prepare advanced practice nurses with the skills necessary to navigate the healthcare arena. The editors and contributors are experienced advanced practice nurses with valuable information to share with novice practitioners." Score: 100, 5 stars

--Doody's

Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed book remains the key title serving graduate-level advanced practice nurses (APNs) and recent graduates about to launch their careers. The book outlines what is required of the APN, with guidelines for professional practice for each of the four APN roles: the nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse midwife, and certified registered nurse anesthetist.

Advanced Practice Nursing focuses not only on the care and management of patients, but also on how to meet the many challenges of the rapidly changing health care arena. Obtaining certification, navigating reimbursement, and translating research into practice are just a few of the challenges discussed.

Key features:

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Kathleen M. Woodruff, RN, MS, CRNP(Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)
Description:This is a valuable resource for both graduate nursing students and recent graduates of advanced practice programs. It was originally published in 1995 and has been updated to include the recent movement of the education for advanced practice nurses to the practice doctorate.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide guidance to advanced practice nurses through the opportunities and challenges present in the current healthcare environment. The topics are not specific to a setting or a role, but rather developed to focus on advanced nursing practice standards and competencies that are being put forward by professional nursing organizations. The authors have done an excellent job in meeting their learning objectives.
Audience:The book is written for graduate nursing students attending either a master's or practice doctorate program focused on advanced practice nursing. The hope is that this resource will be a practical and useful guide that assists advanced practice nurses starting their new careers. The editors and contributors are experienced advanced practice nurses with valuable information to share with novice practitioners.
Features:Three main sections cover foundations of advanced practice nursing, implementation of the APN role, and transitions to the advanced practice role. Each one builds on the concepts integral to the role and present a trajectory for students to use as a career guide. The book is supported with numerous diagrams and tables. The references are pertinent and up to date.
Assessment:This is a wonderful book to help prepare advanced practice nurses with the skills necessary to navigate the healthcare arena. It does an excellent job of incorporating, and educating readers on, recent developments with the doctor of nursing practice degree.

Michaelene Jansen PhD, RN,C, GNP-BC, NP-C is a Clinical Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also works as a Family and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in Pulmonary Medicine at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Her professional career includes advanced practice nursing in primary care and neurosciences, chronic pain and pulmonary medicine, particularly the care of adult cystic fibrosis patients. Her professional nursing career includes critical care, neurosciences and trauma. She was co-editor of the previous three editions of this text and editor of Managing Pain in the Older Adult also published by Springer Publishing.

Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher, PhD, RN, GNP/GCNS-BC, FAAN is Interim Dean and Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. She also practices as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner/Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Red Cedar Clinic/Mayo Health System - Nursing Homes Services. She is a NIH funded co-principal investigator examining multilevel interventions to promote quality improvement in the nursing home setting. She has extensive experience in gerontological advanced practice, nursing education and quality improvement in long-term care. She is the co-editor of the previous edition of this text, in addition to the author of numerous national presentations, publications and books.