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Advanced Practice Nursing: Essentials for Role Development, 2nd Edition

By Lucille A. Joel, RN, EdD, APN,C, FAAN, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1958-6
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1958-8

695 pp. 25 ill. Soft cover.  ©2009  Available now. $61.95

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RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS UPON ADOPTION
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PowerPoint slides • Online Resources • Study Questions with print and email functionality • Articles on Negotiation & Certification and Advanced Practice Nursing • Resume template.

AJN Book of the Year
2009

 

 





Noted nursing professionals and educators share their expertise...on the evolution of the APN’s role from a historical perspective to the present, the non-clinical knowledge necessary for professional success, and future issues and challenges.

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  • More coverage of more APN specialties, including nurse educator and nurse administrator.
  • Provides the foundational content for all advanced practice nursing students in a course on professional role development.
  • Presents more practical information balanced with the theory.
  • Addresses important topics, including evidence-based practice, the mechanics of teaching, applying the concepts of role theory, serving culturally diverse clients, and effective business practices.
  • Links content to the AACN/NONPF core curriculum recommendations.
  • More figures, tables and boxes to make reference easier.

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Table of Contents
 
  1. The Evolution of Advanced Practice
  1. Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Had to be Done - Radicals, Renegades and Rebels
  2. Emerging Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse
  3. Role Development: A Theoretical Perspective
  4. Education for Advanced Practice
  5. Global Perspectives on Advanced Nursing Practice

 
  1. The Practice Environment
  1. Payment for Advanced practice Nursing Services: Past, Present and Future
  2. Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority
  3. Credentialing and Clinical Privileges and the Advanced Practice Nurse
  4. The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice
  5. Participation of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Managed Care and Quality Initiatives
  6. Resource Management
  7. Mediated Roles: Working Through Other People
  8. Reporting Relationships: Follow the Money
  9. Competencies in Advanced Practice
  10. Evidence-based Practice
  11. Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Nurse
  12. Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing
  13. The Advance Practice Nurse and Research
  14. The Advanced Practice Nurse and Complementary Therapies
  15. Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Nurse
  16. Culture as a Variable in Practice
  17. Conflict Resolution: An Essential Competency in Advanced Practice
  1. Ethical, Legal & Business Relations
  1. Evaluation of the Advanced Practice Nurse: Cost Efficiency, Accomplishments, Trends, and   
  2.       Future Development
  3. Promoting Advanced Practice Nurses to the Public
  4. Starting a Practice and Practice Management
  5. The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: It Makes a Difference
  6. The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced Practice Nurse
  7. Malpractice Insurance
  8. Ethics and the Advanced Practice Nurse

Chapter on the Web
Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse Performance: Outcome Indicators, Models of Evaluation, and the Issue of Value


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