Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession

Part1 Professional Roles for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Chapter1 Introduction to the Role of Advanced Practices Nursing
Chapter2 The Nurse Practitioner: Historical Perspective on the Art and Science of Nurse Practitionering
Chapter3 Overview of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree
Chapter4 Emerging Roles for the DNP Nurse Educator
Chapter5 Influencing and Leading Change in the Complex Health Environment : The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse
Chapter6 Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health
Part2 Healthcare Delivery and Health Policy for Advanced Practice: Core Knowledge
Chapter7 An Overview of U.S. Healthcare Delivery
Chapter8 Beliefs, Values, and Health
Chapter9 The Healthcare Interdisciplinary Context: A Focus on the Microsystem Concept
Chapter10 Microeconomics in the Hospital Firm: Competition, Regulation, the Profit Motive, and Patient Care
Chapter11 Government Regulation: Parallel and Powerful
Part3 Quality, Safety, and Information Systems for Advanced Practice Nurses
Chapter12 Factors Influencing the Application and Diffusion of CQI in Health Care
Chapter13 Patient Safety Movement: The Progress and the Work That Remains
Chapter14 Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement
Chapter15 Health Information Technology
Chapter16 The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics
Chapter17 IOM Core Competency: Utilize Informatics
Part4 Theoretical Foundations, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter18 The Evolution of Nursing Science
Chapter19 Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice
Chapter20 Research: How Health Care Advances
Chapter21 Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter22 Clinical Scholarship and Evidence-Based Practice
Part5 The Role of Race, Culture, Ethics, and Advocacy in Advanced Nursing Practice
Chapter23 Birth of Transcultural Nursing to Current Theories and Conceptual Models for Cultural Diversity
Chapter24 Global Diversity
Chapter25 Health Services for Special Populations
Chapter26 Introduction to Ethics
Chapter27 Advanced Practice Nursing: The Nurse--Patient Relationships and General Ethical Concerns
Chapter28 Leadership and Role Transition for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Chapter29 Managing Personal Resources: Time and Stress Management
Chapter30 Role Transition: Strategies for Success in the Marketplace