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Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession 3rd Edition Advanced Practice Nursing:Essential Knowledge for the Profession, Third Edition is a core advanced practice text used in both Master's Level and DNP programs. The Third Edition is a unique compilation of existing chapters from a variety of high-level Jones & Bartlett Learning works creating a comprehensive and well-rounded resource for the advanced practice nursing student. Similar to the previous edition, The Third Edition features updated content around the AACN's Master's Essentials as well as the Essentials for Doctoral Education. Throughout this text the authors address the rapid changes in the health care environment with a special focus on health care finance, electronic health records, quality and safety as well as emerging roles for the advanced practice nurse. Patient care in the context of advanced nursing roles is also covered.

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1. In which yeardidtheAmericanAssociation ofCollegeofNursing(AACN)introduced the
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ANS: D
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today’s health care environment.
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Earliest demand for nursing-provided anesthesia spiked during periods of war when numbers of
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physicians were inadequate. The earliest records date back to the American Civil War with the
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administration of chloroform. During World War I in 1917 more than 1000 nurses, some trained
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anesthetists, traveled into battle. Other factors such as need for rural health care came later in the
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validation and need for APNs.
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6. In 1889, Dr. William Worrall Mayo built and opened St. Mary’s hospital in Rochester, NY. He is
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been regarded as the earliest training in nurse-provided anesthesia.
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working from standard orders developed from their medical advisory committee nurses treated
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American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) in 1969?
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The landmark decision from the Chalmers-Frances v. Nelson case set national precedent for the
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advanced nursing practice role. It proved to be the basis for other cases over the following few decades
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