Joel, Lucille A. : Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
Lucille A. Joel, RN, EdD, APN,C, FAAN, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey.
Summary
Tracing the evolution of the APN role over time and including the non-clinical knowledge necessary to perform
successfully in that role, Dr. Joel and her expert contributors succinctly explore the environment in which APNs
practice, APN core competencies, evolving issues, challenges, and basic organizational and business skills. This
book, with content closely linked to the AACN/NONPF core curriculum recommendations, tackles such topics as evidence-based
practice, ethical decision-making, basic teaching skills, starting a practice and practice management, court cases
involving the APN, and much more. This text provides the foundational content essential for all advanced practice
nursing students to thrive in their professional role development.
KEY FEATURES
Chronicles the history of advanced practice roles from their earliest days, showing the similarities and differences
in their development, the strategic decisions made by ANA which gave birth to the title of APN, and the standardization
first achieved by the AACN in defining the core curriculum
Reviews the circumstances that have moved the APN role into new and creative models. Examples include the acute
care nurse practitioner, the psychiatric nurse practitioner, the blended CNS and NP role, and the clinical specialist
in community health nursing.
Discusses the nature of global advanced practice, and depicts the recent movement towards international outreach
Examines the practice environment with respect to reimbursement, prescriptive authority, clinical privileges,
participation as a member on managed care panels, malpractice insurance, the ability to understand budgeting and
material resource management, and the nature of different reporting relationships
Analyzes the critical thinking skills necessary to be competent APNs in terms of their sub-roles as a direct
caregiver, client advocate, teacher, consultant, researcher, case manager, and participant in collaborative practice
Discusses the flexibility necessary to work with culturally diverse clients with different postures towards
health, illness, family, and learning
Examines the APNs role beyond traditional therapeutic modalities that takes them into the realm of complementary
therapies
Experts discuss the legal and ethical dimensions of practice, how they uniquely apply to the role of the APN,
and court cases involving the APN
Explores all the issues pertaining to employment choices as either an employee, employer, or independent contractor
and investigates what�s involved in starting and successfully competing in a practice and practice management
Table of Contents
Unit 1: The Evolution of Advanced Practice
1. Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Had to be Done -- Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels
2. Emerging Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse
3. Role Development: A Theoretical Perspective
4. A Global Perspective on Advanced Practice Unit 2: The Practice Environment
5. Payment for Advanced Practice Nursing Services: Past, Present, and Future
6. Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority
7. Credentialing and Clinical Privileges and the Advanced Practice Nurse
8. Participation in Managed Care
9. Malpractice Insurance
10. Resource Management
11. Reporting Relationships: Follow the Money
12. Conflict Resolution in Practice: An Essential Advanced Practice Nurse Competency Unit 3: Competency in Advanced Practice
13. Evidence-Based Practice
14. Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Nurse
15. The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice
16. Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing
17. The Advanced Practice Nurse and Research
18. The Advanced Practice Nurse and Complementary Therapies
19. Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Nurse
20. A Cultural Variable in Practice
21. Mediated Roles: Working Through Other People Unit 4: Ethical, Legal and Business Acumen
22. Evaluation of the Advanced Practice Nurse: Cost Efficiency, Accomplishments, Trends, and Future Development
23. Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse Performance: Outcome Indicators, Models of Evaluation, and the Issue of
Value
24. The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: It Makes a Difference
25. Promoting Advanced Practice Nurses to the Public
26. Starting a Practice and Practice Management
27. The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced Practice Nurse
28. Ethics and the Advanced Practice Nurse
