Advanced Nursing Practice

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The paper discusses how advanced nurse practitioners (APNs) have increased their scope of primary care delivery. The paper explains the tensions with doctors over the new power entrusted to APNs and the disagreements as to specific responsibilities. The paper concludes that as this role becomes more integrated into the framework of different societies and is better defined, it is expected that healthcare providers will collaborate better.

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"As healthcare in the United States becomes a more complex and crucial societal element, it will become increasingly important for providers to gain different levels of specialization and education. One area that is growing as a result is the advanced nursing practice. Although this area of advanced nursing practice can involve different areas of study and healthcare provision, in 2004, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) broadly defined the term "practice" as "any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare outcomes for individuals or populations, including the direct care of individual patients, management of care for individuals and populations, administration of nursing and health care organizations, and the development and implementation of health policy." (2004, p. 2). In its most basic terminology, this level of nursing refers to any nurse that has a Master's degree or, as is becoming more commonplace, a Doctorate in Nursing."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adams, B.L. (2005) Assessment of Child Abuse Risk Factors by Advanced Practice Nurses. Pediatric Nursing.31(6):498-502
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2004). AACN position statement on the practice doctorate in nursing. Washington, DC: Retrieved January 28, 2008. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/DNP/DNPPositionStatement.htm
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