NSG 5000 - Mid-term Exam Study Guide. Complete Solutions.

NSG 5000 - Mid-term Exam Study Guide. Complete Solutions. Chapter 1 Standardization of APN role 1. Licensed RN 2. Expanded knowledge & skills that builds on basic nursing education (graduate degree or higher) 3. MUST involve direct clinical practice Criteria 1. Graduate degree 2. professional certification w/in specialty 3. practice focused on pt and families (aka direct clinical practice) National council for state boards of nursing 4 essential elements: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, Education Since the 1980s, the term advanced practice nurse (APN) has increasingly been used to delineate CRNAs (certified registered nurse anesthesist), CNMs (certified nurse midwives), CNSs (clinical nurse specialist), and NPs (nurse practitioner). APN= certified APRN’s with a minimum master’s degree. Throughout the century APN’s have been permitted to provide care to underserved poor, especially in rural areas. Documentation of outcomes of practice helped establish earliest specialties and continues to be critically important for survival of APN practice. Hameric’s conceptual definition APN= The patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations within a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing.  Conceptual definition  “patient-focused application of expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients in a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing”  Three primary criteria  Graduate education  Certification  Practice focused on patient/family  Seven core competencies  Direct clinical practice is the central competency Core competencies of APN - guidance and coaching, consultation, evidence-based practice, leadership, collaboration, ethical decision making --- Also meet one of 6 population foci: Family/Indiv across life span, Adult gerontology, Gender specific, Neonatal, Pediatrics, and Psychiatric-mental health CRNA- After 2022 ALL nurse anesthesists must graduate with doctoral degree NURSE- MIDWIFERY- (1966) All nurse mid-wifery programs must be associated with university. 1.Which definition distinguishes Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) from Advance PracticeNursing(APN)? The integration and application of a broad range of theoretical and evidenced based knowledge that occurs as part of graduate education The ANP and APN are indistinguishabl