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- 1. Working Ahead—Final Project Overview/Description: The final assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations. Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 10–12 pages excluding the title and reference, and APA format is required. Criteria: · Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing: · Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. · Selected Advanced Practice Role: · Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice. · Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role. · Identify required competencies, including certification requirements for your selected role. · Predict the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work. · Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role: · Determine your leadership style
- 2. (http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl- leadershipquiz.htm). · Identify leadership attributes you currently possess, and attributes you may need to develop. · Determine how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes. · Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role · Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and- articles/health-policy.html) and identify a health policy issue. Conduct a review of literature and address the following: · Describe the current policy and what needs to change; justify your conclusions with citations from the literature. · Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest. · Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy. Predict the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented. · Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing: · Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. References Sullivan-Marx, E. (2010). Nurse Practitioners: The Evolution and Future of Advanced Practice, Fifth Edition. New York: Springer Publishing Company. Oermann, M. H. P. R. F. (Ed.). (2013). Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator: The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation and Curriculum Development (1). New York, US: Springer Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu McBride, S. P. R. C., & Tietze, M. P. R. F. (2015). Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism (1). New York,
- 3. US: Springer Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu Adams, L. T., & O'Neil, E. H. (2008). Nurse Executive: The Four Principles of Management. New York, US: Springer Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu Nurse practitioner: Nurse practitioners are an essential part of the primary care workforce, health care costs, and operation of the health care delivery system. They provide the necessary link to a system of care crumbled by medical specialization and occupy a steady place in relation to nursing practice and education. Nurse practitioners are providers of high quality medical care in many interdisciplinary settings, improving the necessity for distinguished case presentation skills to keep leveled with other physician colleagues accelerating that patient’s care to build up decisive patient results. They work hand in hand with patients to promote methods to monitor their health status and/ or illness and to preserve positive health habits to diminish their risk for, reduce the impact of, or limit the advancement of the disease increasing the quality of life and functioning of patients, thus, positively influencing long-term outcomes. Sullivan-Marx, E. (2010). Nurse educator: Nurse educators are vital to meet the needs of the health care delivery system. They play an important role due to the fact that they need to keep up to date of the ever changing standards of practice, skill competency, and regulatory requirements in order to properly guide nurses and other staff members in their job requirements, and to help them increase the use of assessment and evaluation strategies as well as promoting evidence-based practice in the workplace. Nurse educators also have the vision as investigators in promoting to document the cost-effectiveness of educational efforts in diminishing the length of time patients need to stay in
- 4. the hospital, reducing the possibility of being readmitted, and help patients acquire a better quality of life. Oermann, M. H. P. R. F. (Ed.). (2013). Nurse informaticist: Nurse informaticists have their unique impact in the development of the health care system in which they reform and shape the system by lowering the cost and improving patient safety through the use of technology. Also in the assurance of patient safety and quality in technology-driven environments. They also help guide in the leadership and practice arenas related to health information technology (HIT) and the application of information management tools like business intelligence tools and statistical software programs to use data and information for the improvement of the health care delivery. Furthermore, improving the system by using the technology to identify patient-specific education resources and provide those resources to the patient, engaging in the discussions and decisions to move forward in safely integrating HIT and mobile applications and tools into health care practice. McBride, S. P. R. C., & Tietze, M. P. R. F. (2015). Nurse administrator: The nurse administrator’s practice is wide and can include overall management of nursing practice, nursing education and professional development, and nursing services. In all these settings the nurse administrator manage within the context of the organization as a whole, changing the values of the organization into a more efficient, successful, and tender organization. To a certain degree, nurse administrators are responsible for promoting and arranging for the resources at hand to make it more efficacious, productive, secure, and generous care based on standard of practice. They possess the management skills that empower them to take action in managing groups of employees as well as clients and families. Moreover, prepare for the future of health care and of nursing and function as instructor, exemplar, and mentor to lower level managers,
- 5. graduate students, and others. In clinical settings nurse administrators participate in the management of human relations instead of imposing rules and regulations. Adams, L. T., & O'Neil, E. H. (2008). Assignment 2: Final Project Overview/Description: The final assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations. Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 10–12 pages excluding the title and reference, and APA format is required. Criteria: · Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing: · Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research. · Selected Advanced Practice Role: · Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice. · Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role. · Identify required competencies, including certification requirements for your selected role. · Predict the organization and setting, population, and
- 6. colleagues with whom you plan to work. · Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role: · Determine your leadership style (http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl- leadershipquiz.htm). · Identify leadership attributes you currently possess, and attributes you may need to develop. · Determine how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes. · Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role · Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and- articles/health-policy.html) and identify a health policy issue. Conduct a review of literature and address the following: · Describe the current policy and what needs to change; justify your conclusions with citations from the literature. · Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest. · Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy. · Predict the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented.