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List the 10 AACN Essentials
1. Knowledge of Nursing practice
2. Person-centered care
3. Scholarships for nursing discipline
4. Population Health
5. Quality and Safety
6. Interprofessional Partnerships
7. System-based practice
8. Informatics and Healthcare technologies
9. Professionalism
10. Personal, Professional, and Leadership development
Define knowledge for nursing practice
Domain 1: Integration and application of established and evolving
knowledge
Define Person-centered care
Domain 2: Focus on individual within multiple complicated contexts.
Holistic, individualized, just, compassionate, evidence based.
Define Population Health
Domain 3: spans healthcare delivery continuum from public health
prevention to disease management of populations.
Define Scholarship for nursing discipline
,Domain 4: Evaluation, conduction, and utilization of ethical evidence-
based research.
Define Interprofessional Partnership
Domain 6: Intentional collaboration across professions; APN is a team
leader who facilitates respect, positivity, and promotion of diversity.
Define System-based practice
Domain 7: Ability to function as a change agent within a broader
healthcare system, coordination of resources.
Define Informatics and Healthcare technologies
Domain 8: data generation and evaluation, use of EHR, seeking out new
technology to improve patient care
Define Professionalism
Domain 9: APN is accountable, ethical, complies with laws and
regulations
Define Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Domain 10: flexible leader working to gain knowledge and better
themselves, participation in activities and self-reflection that fosters
personal health, resilience, well-being.
YEST ANOTHER "DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION"
THE DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE - The new doctorate is a "practice"
doctorate in contrast to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)- the traditional
research degree- and is not intended to "replace" the PhD.
POSITION STATEMENT ONTHE PRACTICE OF DOCTORATE IN NURSING
, AACN endorsed October 2004, which called the movement of
educational preparation for advanced practice nursing roles from the
master's degree to the doctoral level by 2015.
Define Quality and Safety
Domain 5: focus on patient safety through evaluation of data,
implementation of risk reduction strategies, advocation of change.
Duke University
1957 conceived of advanced role for nurses somewhere between the
role of the nurse and the doctor.
Colorado University
first NP's emergerd in
the 1960s
LACE
L - licensure
A - Accreditation
C-
Certification
E - Education
* demonstrates alliances across these spheres for implementation of
the APRN Consensus Model, thus promoting uniformity and
standardization of the APRN role for the safety of the consumer of
healthcare.
4 APRN role