Advanced Practice Nursing

The 3rd edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award winner prepares graduate nurses to meet the challenges of practice today and to take leadership roles in the future. From its historical roots to contemporary concerns and trends, the author traces the development of the advanced practice nursing role and articulates the major issues facing practitioners today. What's New: thoroughly revised and updated coverage throughout; new chapters on evidence-based practice, the evolution of APN across the continuum of care, and health education and counseling; and, new coverage of timely topics, including health care disparities, retail clinics, complexity theory, current issues in practice, APN consensus model, and the DNP. It offers an issues and discussion presentation of the major roles of advanced practice nurses. It highlights the ethical aspects of practice. It includes practical business advice for negotiating salaries or starting a new practice. It provides critical thinking exercises, including performing critiques, conducting peer reviews, using analogies, drawing models to depict relationships among concepts, composing position papers and professional practice statements, and engaging in argument and debate.