Advanced practice nursing : essentials for role development, 4th edition. [electronic resource]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advanced practice nursing : essentials for role development, 4th edition -- Preface -- Contributors -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Unit 1: The Evolution of Advanced Practice -- Chapter 1: Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done -- Chapter 2: Emerging Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse -- Chapter 3: Role Development: A Theoretical Perspective -- Chapter 4: Educational Preparation of Advanced Practice Nurses: Looking to the Future -- Chapter 5: Global Perspectives on Advanced Nursing Practice -- Unit 2: The Practice Environment -- Chapter 6: Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority -- Chapter 7: Credentialing and Clinical Privileges for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse -- Chapter 8: The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice -- Chapter 9: Participation of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Health Plans and Quality Initiatives -- Chapter 10: Public Policy and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse -- Chapter 11: Resource Management -- Chapter 12: Mediated Roles: Working With and Through Other People -- Unit 3: Competency in Advanced Practice -- Chapter 13: Evidence-Based Practice -- Chapter 14: Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse -- Chapter 15: Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing -- Chapter 16: The Advanced Practice Nurse and Research -- Chapter 17: The Advanced Practice Nurse: Holism and Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches -- Chapter 18: Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse -- Chapter 19: Culture as a Variable in Practice -- Chapter 20: Conflict Resolution in Advanced Practice Nursing -- Chapter 21: Leadership for APNs: If Not Now, When? -- Chapter 22: Information Technology and the Advanced Practice Nurse -- Chapter 23: Writing for Publication -- Unit 4: Ethical, Legal, and Business Acumen -- Chapter 24: Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse Performance: Outcome Indicators, Models of Evaluation, and the Issue of Value -- Chapter 25: Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Accomplishments, Trends, and Future Development -- Chapter 26: Starting a Practice and Practice Management -- Chapter 27: The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: Legal and Contractual Considerations -- Chapter 28: The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse -- Chapter 29: Malpractice and the Advanced Practice Nurse -- Chapter 30: Ethics and the Advanced Practice Nurse -- Index.

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Meet all the challenges of professional practice--whatever your specialty or environment. Noted nursing professionals and educators explore all of the non-clinical roles and responsibilities of an APN and chart a course that will enable you to meet them successfully. You'll follow the evolution of the APN's role from a historical perspective to the present and examine the issues and challenges you'll encounter in the future. --Provided by publisher.

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