The 5th Edition of an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!
Survive and thrive as an APN!
Meet all the challenges of professional practice--whatever your specialty or environment. Noted nursing professionals and educators explore all of the non-clinical roles and responsibilities of an Advanced Practice Nurse and chart a course that enables you to meet them successfully. You'll follow the evolution of the APN's role from a historical perspective to the present and examine the issues and challenges you'll encounter in the future.

• Updated, Revised & Expanded!Thoroughly reviewed to reflect advanced practice today
• New!Learning exercises to engage students and promote active learning
• New & Expanded Coverage!
  • Difference between a PhD dissertation and the DNP Scholarly Project as the terminal requirement for the DNP degree
  • Availability/requirements for internships, externships, and residencies and the differences among them
  • The status of nurses and nursing education across the globe, especially in countries where the APN role is expanding
  • Recent gains/changes in securing prescriptive authority, and the influence of the consensus model and the multi-state compact
  • The impact of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), "Medical Homes," and similar organizations on multidisciplinary practice.
  • The role of the APN as patient advocate and the role of the patient as decision-maker
  • "Cultivated intuition" as the backbone of case management and the role of case management in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and "Medical Homes"
  • The role of the nurse as coach
  • Update to interventions, including aromatherapy, guided imagery, acupressure, acupuncture, yoga, Taiichi, reiki, and therapeutic touch, and their relationship to regulated nursing practice and the consensus model

• Covers all APN specialties, including nurse educator and nurse administrator.
• Provides the foundational content for all advanced practice nursing students in a course on professional role development.
• Presents practical information balanced with theory.
• Addresses important topics, including evidence-based practice, the mechanics of teaching, applying the concepts of role theory, serving culturally diverse clients, and effective business practices.
• Links content to the AACN/NONPF core curriculum recommendations.Features figures, tables, and boxes to make reference easier.