Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession, Fourth Edition is a core advanced practice text used in both Master's Level and DNP programs. Similar to the previous edition, The Fourth Edition is framed around the AACN's Master's Essentials as well as the Essentials for Doctoral Education featuring the most up-to-date content on each set of Essentials.Throughout the Fourth Edition the authors address the rapid changes in the health care environment with a special focus on health care finance, electronic health records, quality and safety as well as emerging roles for the advanced practice nurse. Patient care in the context of the advanced nursing role is also discussed.
Record details
ISBN:9781284176124 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print xx, 947 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition:Fourth ed.
Publisher:Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1. Professional roles for advanced practice. Introduction to the role of advanced practice nursing / Susan M. DeNisco, Anne M. Barker -- Historical perspectices : the art and science of nurse practitionering / Julie G. Stewart -- Overview of the doctor of nursing practice degree / Lisa Astalos Chism -- Emerging roles for the DNP. Nurse educator / Judith M. Pechacek ; Nurse administrator / Mary Jean Vickers ; Public health nurse / Carol Flaten, Jeanne Pfeiffer ; Nurse entrepreneur / Timothy F. Gardner ; Biosketches of select successful DNP entrepreneurs / Margaret A. Fitzgerald, David G. Campbell, Carol Lisa Alexander ; Integrative practitioner / Joy Elwell ; Nurse informaticist / Sandra L. McPherson -- Influencing and leading change in the complex healthcare environment : the role of the advanced practice nurse / Anne M. Barker -- Interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health / Laurel Ash, Catherine Miller -- Part 2. Healthcare delivery and health policy for advanced practice : core knowledge. An overview of U.S. healthcare delivery / Leiyu Shi, Douglas A. Singh -- Government response : regulation / jacqueline M. Loversidge -- Healthcare policy for advocacy in health care / Angela Mund -- Healthcare business essentials : a primer for advanced nurses / mary Beth Kingston, Patti Rager Zuzelo -- Microeconomics in the hospital firm : competition, regulation, the profit motive, and patient care / J. Michael Leger, Mary Anne Schultz --