Advanced Practice Nursing An Integrative Approach

Publisher: Saunders 
4th edition - July 2, 2008 
Hardcover: 848 pages 
ISBN-10: 1416043926 
ISBN-13: 978-1416043928 

Covering all advanced practice competencies and roles, this book offers strategies for enhancing patient care and legitimizing your role within today's health care system. It covers the history of advanced practice nursing, the theory behind the practice, and emerging issues. Offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced practice nursing, this edition also adds a focus on topics including the APN scope of practice, certification, and the ethical and legal issues that occur in clinical practice. 

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Nurse Practitioners The Evolution and Future of Advanced Practice

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
5th edition - April 20, 2010
Paperback: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 0826118216
ISBN-13: 978-0826118219 

This fifth edition discusses the evolution and future of advance practice nursing, primarily for APN faculty and APN/NP practitioners as well as for leaders and administrators in education. Fully updated and expanded, the book comprehensively describes the historical, social, economic, and global contexts of advanced practice nursing. The team of expert contributors provides a wealth of insight into key issues of the day, such as the mechanics of financial recognition of NPs, the effects of managed care, and the globalization of advanced practice models. 

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Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
2nd edition - February 26, 2009
Paperback: 328 pages
ISBN-10: 0826125824
ISBN-13: 978-0826125828 

Measuring patient outcomes is arguably the most important job of the advanced practice nurse (APN)-yet conducting outcome assessment and selecting the appropriate instruments for measuring outcome continue to be a challenge, even to the best in the field. 

This newly revised edition provides APNs with up-to-date resources and examples of outcome measures, tools, and methods that can be used to expand the APN's understanding of outcome assessment. The chapters outline numerous examples of practice-based outcome assessments, with detailed descriptions of how an assessment is conducted, as well as guidelines for identifying the proper instruments for measuring outcome. 

Written for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and graduate level APNs, this newly updated edition serves as an invaluable resource for APNs, regardless of specialty area of practice or practice setting. 

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Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
1st edition - August 26, 2010
Paperback: 650 pages
ISBN-10: 0763779865
ISBN-13: 978-0763779863 

Philosophies and Theories for Advanced Nursing Practice is designed for the advanced practice nursing student and is an essential resource for graduate and DNP programs. This comprehensive text covers all of the major nursing theories and includes a section on interdisciplinary theories as well as chapters on the philosophy of science, foundations of knowledge development, and integrating and disseminating knowledge in advanced practice nursing. 

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International Council of Nurses Advanced Nursing Practice

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
1st edition - December 4, 2006
Paperback: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1405125330
ISBN-13: 978-1405125338 

Advanced Nursing Practice addresses the key issues in practice, education, regulation, research and role/practice development, which are central to defining the distinctive nature of advanced nursing practice (ANP) and explores international developments in the field of ANP. 

Advanced Nursing Practice has been developed in recognition of the key role nurses with advanced knowledge and skills play in developing health care services worldwide. The book tracks the evolution of new advanced practice nursing roles and innovative practice models, and examines the need for international guidelines. In exploring strategies for implementing ANP in the context of countries' health care needs, Advanced Nursing Practice addresses legal and ethical challenges and commonalities and differences in advanced nursing practice, while examining the implications, obstacles, and facilitative strategies in maintaining, implementing and supporting the development of ANP. 

This book provides guidance in decision-making, examines the implications for liaising with other health care professionals and encourages nurses to shape their role to the needs of their patients and practice. 

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Women's Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
1st edition - June 23, 2008
Hardcover: 736 pages
ISBN-10: 9780826102355
ISBN-13: 978-0826102355 

This book is the ideal tool to help graduate level nursing students expand their understanding of women's health care and wellness issues. For easy reference, Women's Health Care in Advanced Practice Nursing is organized into four parts: 

1. Women and Their Lives, covering connections between women's lives and their health 

2. Frameworks for Practice, addressing health care practice with women 

3. Health Promotion, covering ways for women to promote their health and prevent many chronic diseases 

4. Threats to Health and Health Problems, addressing problems unique to women, diseases more prevalent in women, and those in which there are different risk factors 

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Advancing Nursing Practice in Pain Management

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
1st edition - March 16, 2010
Paperback: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 1405176997
ISBN-13: 978-1405176996 

This book showcases the development and evaluation of innovative examples of pain management initiatives by advanced practitioners. It considers each service development or community initiative both in terms of advanced practice nursing and pain management. There is a wide range of examples of innovation in pain management included – from the introduction of ketamine use in one trust, to much wider issues, such as meeting the needs of pain management in the community. 

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Advanced Practice Nursing Essentials for Role Development

Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
2nd edition - February 16, 2009
Paperback: 546 pages
ISBN-10: 0803619588
ISBN-13: 978-0803619586

Noted nursing professionals and educators share their expertise...on the evolution of the APN's role from a historical perspective to the present, the non-clinical knowledge necessary for professional success, and future issues and challenges. AJN Book of the Year2009 

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Advanced Practice Nursing Core Concepts for Professional Role Development

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
4th edition - October 26, 2009
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0826105157
ISBN-13: 978-0826105158 

Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed book remains the key title serving graduate-level advanced practice nurses (APNs) and recent graduates about to launch their careers. The book outlines what is required of the APN, with guidelines for professional practice for each of the four APN roles: the nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse midwife, and certified registered nurse anesthetist. 

Advanced Practice Nursing focuses not only on the care and management of patients, but also on how to meet the many challenges of the rapidly changing health care arena. Obtaining certification, navigating reimbursement, and translating research into practice are just a few of the challenges discussed. 

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Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice

Sue Hinchliff, Rosemary Rogers

Publisher: Oxford University Press 2008

448 Pages

ISBN: 0340927682 - PDF 

Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice is the first and definitive book to deliver guidance for practitioners working to be recognized by the NMC for their advanced nursing practice.

Written by experiences academics and advanced nurse practitioners from a variety of clinical backgrounds, this handbook will support nurses on their journey towards advanced nursing practice and provide detailed information on achieving the competencies within each of the seven domains outlines in the NMC's Standards of Proficiency for Advanced Nurse Practitioners: assessment and management of patient health/illness status, the nurse-patient relationship, teaching-coaching function, professional role, managing and negotiating health care delivery systems, monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice and respecting cultural competence.

The text concludes with a section on how practitioners can collect and record evidence for accreditation of their advanced nursing practice. 

Aimed at the professional nurse working towards an advanced level of practice, as well as the nurse already practicing at this level and wishing to seek accreditation and also thte student and newly qualified nurse giving early consideration to their future career, this book offers clear and user-friendly guidance for anybody wishing to undertake this standard of nursing practice. 

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