THREE: Ethics: This portion of the learning experience for the RN wanting to be an APRN is important because: a) ethical dilemmas and how they impact patient care must be part of the curriculum; b) decision-making with ethics as a driver for decisions must be learned; c) in what instances do personal conflict of interest arise? FOUR: Professional Role Development: the knowledge and skills to be effective are taught: a)

Advanced Practice Nursing Admission Summarize your nursing-related educational and professional activities. Explain your rationale for seeking a graduate nursing degree. Articulate the personal challenges and approaches to managing graduate school, work, and outside commitments As a nurse, I have worked in many capacities over the course of my career. I currently occupy the challenging role of case manager at a hospice. It is a daily privilege to help individuals and families face

American Healthcare System: Implications for Advanced Practice Nursing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) is the group of health care professionals on whom stakeholders and lawmakers depend to deliver most of America's health care. APRNs refer to registered nurses who've attained advanced clinical and educational practice requirements. They include clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners. Experts project that the demand for APRNs is bound to increase as hospitals

Advanced practice nursing (APN) is one of the nursing fields that plays a critical role in the promotion of the health and wellbeing of patient populations. APN is regarded as the usage of a wider scope of logical, constructive, and research-based competence relating to patients’ health and wellbeing. This field incorporates knowledge and expertise from a variety of disciplines that are critical in the healthcare sector. Given the acute nursing

Advanced Practice Nursing Framework Following its introduction during the 1960s, the role of the advanced practice nurse (hereinafter alternatively "APN") has expanded greatly into a number of specialty areas (Nwosuocha, 1999). Consequently, the definition of the advanced practice nurse has also experienced significant changes. According to Nwosuocha, "With the expanded roles of advanced practice nursing there are many definitions of what constitute faculty practice. Teaching, service, joint appointments and other

Introduction An estimated 1.5 million “preventable adverse drug events” occur each year in the United States alone; the number of medication errors that did not lead to adverse effects but remained undisclosed is unknown (Jenkins & Vaida, 2007, p. 41). The scenario is this: You are working as an advanced practice nurse at a community health clinic. You make an error when prescribing a drug to a patient. You do not