F.A. Davis Company

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.

• 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.

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

2. The Practice Environment

6. Payment for Advanced practice Nursing Services: Past, Present and Future
7. Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority
8. Credentialing and Clinical Privileges and the Advanced Practice Nurse
9. The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice
10. Participation of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Managed Care and Quality Initiatives
11. Resource Management
12. Mediated Roles: Working Through Other People
13. Reporting Relationships: Follow the Money
Competencies in Advanced Practice
14. Evidence-based Practice
15. Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Nurse
16. Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing
17. The Advance Practice Nurse and Research
18. The Advanced Practice Nurse and Complementary Therapies
19. Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Nurse
20. Culture as a Variable in Practice
21. Conflict Resolution: An Essential Competency in Advanced Practice

3. Ethical, Legal & Business Relations

22. Evaluation of the Advanced Practice Nurse: Cost Efficiency, Accomplishments, Trends, and   
      Future Development
23. Promoting Advanced Practice Nurses to the Public
24. Starting a Practice and Practice Management
25. The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: It Makes a Difference
26. The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced Practice Nurse
27. Malpractice Insurance
28. 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