Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession

Description

The ultimate resource for all advanced practice nurses, this book was conceived by a need to present graduate core curriculum content based on the American Association of Colleges of Nurse’s The Essentials of Master’ Education for Advanced Practice Nursing in a comprehensive, introductory format. This timely text provides nurses in advanced practice roles with the required core knowledge they need to build upon as they proceed into their unique specialty.

Key Features

• Professional roles for advanced nursing practice
• Healthcare policy
• Quality improvement
• Patient safety and information technology
• Theory and research
• Ethics and diversity

Table of Contents

Part I Professional Roles for Advanced Nursing Practice

• Chapter 1 The Slow March to Professional Practice
• Chapter 2 Advanced Practice Nursing: Moving Beyond the Basics
• Chapter 3 The Evolution of Doctoral Education in Nursing
• Chapter 4 Leadership Development Through Mentorship and Professional Development Planning
• Chapter 5 Managing Personal Resources: Time and Stress Management

Part II The Health Care Delivery System and Health Care Policy

• Chapter 6 A Distinctive System of Health Care Delivery
• Chapter 7 Beliefs, Values, and Health
• Chapter 8 The Evolution of Health Services in the United States
• Chapter 9 Financing Health Care
• Chapter 10 Managing Financial Resources
• Chapter 11 Managed Care
• Chapter 12 The Future of Health Services Delivery
• Chapter 13 Advanced Practice Nurses and Public Policy, Naturally
• Chapter 14 Making the Political Process Work

Part III Quality and Information for Advanced Nursing Practice

• Chapter 15 Health Care Quality
• Chapter 16 Contributions of the Professional, Public, and Private Sectors in Promoting Patient Safety
• Chapter 17 Information Technology for Advanced Nursing Practice

Part IV Theoretical Foundation and Research for Advanced Nursing Practice

• Chapter 18 Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice
• Chapter 19 Values-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Care: Pursuing Fundamental Questions in Nursing Philosophy and Theory
• Chapter 20 Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing
• Chapter 21 Patterns of Knowing: Review, Critique, and Update
• Chapter 22 Multiple Paradigms of Nursing Science
• Chapter 23 Research: How Health Care Advances
• Chapter 24 Knowledge Development in Nursing: Our Historical Roots and Future Opportunities

Part V Other Core Knowledge for the Advanced Practice of Nursing

• Chapter 25 Moving Toward a Culturally Competent Profession
• Chapter 26 Race, Race Relations, and the Emergence of Professional Nursing, 1870–2004
• Chapter 27 Introduction to Ethics
• Chapter 28 The Role of Codes of Ethics in Nursing’s Disciplinary Knowledge

Author(s)

Anne M. Barker, EdD, RN-Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT Anne M. Barker is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where she teaches patient care services administration at the graduate level and leadership and management at the undergraduate level. She has extensive leadership experience at the clinical level in acute care settings and in nursing education. Anne has written two previous books, Transformational Nursing Leadership: A Vision for the Future and Leadership in Dietetics: Achieving a Vision for the Future.