The Consensus Model for APRN Regulation was created to developed a national standard model for the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) (APRN Joint Dialogue Group Report, 2008). Four core components of the APRN regulation that where introduced by the APRN Joint Dialogue Group Report (2008) are licensure, accreditation, certification and education (LACE). These four key components will be required to be meet to be recognized as and APRN…
The newly licensed FNP has a variety of choices when deciding the area in which he or she wishes to work. Appropriate settings for both the FNP and AGNP consist of hospitals, primary care practices, and assisted living facilities. However, the FNP may also care for the pediatric population, whereas the AGNP must work with children over the age of 13. The acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) may work in emergency rooms, hospitals, and quick care facilities (NONPF, 2011).…
Nursing students have a scope of practice specified in the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) of the State of Nevada. We are required to provide treatment to our patient based these scope practice. Practicing any activity out of our scope is a violation of law. Some of our scope of practice includes “nursing student … shall identify himself or herself by his or her appropriate title,” “a nursing student may, as an apprentice nurse, perform those tasks which the nursing student has successfully demonstrated in his or her program of education,” “there is a formal procedure for the nursing student to refuse to perform any task until he or she is comfortable with his or her ability to do so safely,” and others. I complied with NPA’s scope of practice…
Recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine that Advanced Nurse Practitioners provide cost efficient treatment and as competent as physicians. However, physicians and Advanced Nurse Practitioners have different roles but complement each other in patient quality care. Advanced Nurse Practitioners role in the 1960s and 1970s due to a shortage of primary care physicians in underserved areas, especially rural areas. I just don’t understand how come now it is a problem for Advanced Nurse Practitioners to practice as independent. Ken Miller, the AANP Co-president stated that 70% of patients are supportive of NPs to have more responsibilities in a statement she made last…
As advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), it is vital that one must know how to properly document in electronic records. Concise documentation is deemed necessary for two reasons: 1) to provide adequate quality of care for patients, and 2) to receive prompt payments on furnished services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [CMS], 2014). If information is not documented, then you typically will not get paid for it. Furthermore, recording the patient’s story, objective findings, assessment, and treatment plan for the patient all serve as a legal record for the future (Phillips, 2013). This paper will discuss the purpose of evaluation and management (E/M) codes, while summarizing three components of E/M documentation…
The research project will be investigating the business aspect, practicality and usefulness of starting an independent home-care based private practice, owned and operated by the Advanced Nurse Practitioner (APN). The applicability of operating a private practice using the APN is that over the next several years, more states will begin allowing APN’s to have more independence in their licensure so that operating a private practice, with full autonomy, will come to fruition. Currently, there are only a few states which allows APN’s with full prescribing privileges, although this number is rising. However, there are other states where the APN can only diagnosis and provide treatment without physician collaboration. With the elder population…
Whereas, there are several aspects that Classmate 2 raise that are effective in understanding the distinction between the different categories of advanced practice nurses. Specifically, the criteria used in choosing to focus on becoming a primary care nurse practitioner highlight the way individuals make decisions. This way, the review does not only assist in portraying advanced practice nursing as an umbrella classification for describing various nurse specialist categories, which are all important, but…
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with the education and extensive experience required to perform in an advanced clinical role. A nurse practitioner's scope of practice extends beyond that of the registered nurse. In Australia, the Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA) endorses nurse practitioners in accordance with their scope of practice. The nurse practitioner role includes assessment and management of clients using nursing knowledge and skills and may include but is not limited to the direct referral of patients to other health care professionals, prescribing medications and ordering diagnostic investigations.…
There is this bright determined girl who is very motivated, ambitious and has the key to success. This girl is pure African, a true Muslim who was raised in a highly respectable way. She has bright eyes to determine who she truly wants to be. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change my life and my life changes others. I have a dream that truly discovers who I am but others cant determine who I want to be in the future. Who can this girl be ? Well her name is Hawa Kante, the one who could brighten your eyes and make her future a better dream.…
I will be comparing Virginia and Maine in the similarities and differences of the Nurse Practice Act. Virginia and Maine have policies regulating the education, application, and licensure for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Virginia and Maine are compact license states allowing nursing to practice between thirty and ninety days while awaiting licensure from the new state board of nursing. Virginia requires continuing education for renewal of licensure while Maine does not require continuing education or professional development (Maine State Board of Nursing, 2017).…
Additionally, nurse practitioners must ”possess additional preparation and skills in physical diagnosis, psycho-social assessment, and management of health illness needs in primary health care and who have been prepared in a program conforming to board standards” (BRN, 2012). Advanced practice nursing, simply said, is a licensed…
Every individual has a personal, unique set of morals. The same is true for professions; each having a specific set of morals that determine practice. For the nursing profession, ethical principles, ethical frameworks and theories, and ethical competencies have been identified and developed based on practicing morals. The future advanced practice nurse (APN) will identify a practice specialty, state the previously chosen phenomenon of interest (POI) and relate three ethical principles and one framework to the chosen POI and her future practice.…
To non-nursing individuals, specialty nursing and advanced practice nursing may be similar. However, for the nursing professionals there is a huge difference between the two practices. Advanced practice nursing is more than a specialty nursing practice because of the incorporation of the different competencies, such as higher education/knowledge, autonomy, and expertise (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, and O’Grady, 2014). Beitz (2000) has stated that "specialty nursing practice is the application of a range of theoretic and practical therapeutics to patient care issues in a defined clinical area within the larger field of nursing" (p. 57).…
Role Development for Advance Nursing (Precise description of the Advanced Practice Nurse's Role as Researcher)…
The definition of advanced practice would be the legal title for nurses who are licensed to…