AND ANSWERS
, List the 10 AACN Essentials - ANSWERS1. Knowlege 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 - ANSWERSDomain 1: Integration and
application of established and evolving knowledge
Define Person-centered care - ANSWERSDomain 2: Focus on individual within multiple
complicated contexts. Holistic, individualized, just, compassionate, evidence based.
Define Population Health - ANSWERSDomain 3: spans healthcare delivery continuum
from public health prevention to disease management of populations.
Define Scholarship for nursing discipline - ANSWERSDomain 4: Evaluation, conduction,
and utilization of ethical evidence-based research.
Define Quality and Safety - ANSWERSDomain 5: focus on patient safety through
evaluation of data, implementation of risk reduction strategies, advocation of change.
Define Interprofessional Partnership - ANSWERSDomain 6: Intentional collaboration
across professions; APN is a team leader who facilitates respect, positivity, and
promotion of diversity.
Define System-based practice - ANSWERSDomain 7: Ability to function as a change
agent within a broader healthcare system, coordination of resources.
Define Informatics and Healthcare technologies - ANSWERSDomain 8: data generation
and evaluation, use of EHR, seeking out new technology to improve patient care
Define Professionalism - ANSWERSDomain 9: APN is accountable, ethical, complies
with laws and regulations
Define Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development - ANSWERSDomain 10:
flexible leader working to gain knowledge and better themselves, participation in
activities and self-reflection that fosters personal health, resilience, well-being.