Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts for Professional Role Development

This 4th edition provides expanded and updated content reflecting current and future changes for advanced practice nurse (APN) graduate students and their transition to practice. It presents essential information on the multifaceted role of the APN, placing clinical content within the reality of the practice and professional arenas. The text will be useful to graduate students enrolled in core APN courses, especially those students seeking to transition into professional practice as nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists. It facilitates transition into practice. It includes: discussions on educational requirements and differentiation from certification; new content on the DNP and CNL roles in AP, including leadership functions; expanded discussion of professional issues and research based practice (with quantitative and qualitative methodologies); new chapter on the influence of health policy on AP nursing; new chapter on integrating informatics into practice; and, updated list of web resources.