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Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession

Author(s): Anne M. Barker, EdD, RN, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763748999
  • ISBN-10:0763748994
  • Paperback    588 pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $83.95 US List
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Overview

2008 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

The ultimate resource for all advanced practice nurses, this book was conceived by a need to present graduate core curriculum content based on the American Association of Colleges of Nurse’s The Essentials of Master’ Education for Advanced Practice Nursing in a comprehensive, introductory format.  This timely text provides nurses in advanced practice roles with the required core knowledge they need to build upon as they proceed into their unique specialty.  

Key topics in this text include:

  • Professional roles for advanced nursing practice
  • Healthcare policy
  • Quality improvement
  • Patient safety and information technology
  • Theory and research
  • Ethics and diversity

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Part  I  Professional Roles for Advanced Nursing Practice
  Chapter  1  The Slow March to Professional Practice
  Chapter  2  Advanced Practice Nursing: Moving Beyond the Basics
  Chapter  3  The Evolution of Doctoral Education in Nursing
  Chapter  4  Leadership Development Through Mentorship and Professional Development Planning
  Chapter  5  Managing Personal Resources: Time and Stress Management
Part  II  The Health Care Delivery System and Health Care Policy
  Chapter  6  A Distinctive System of Health Care Delivery
  Chapter  7  Beliefs, Values, and Health
  Chapter  8  The Evolution of Health Services in the United States
  Chapter  9  Financing Health Care
  Chapter  10  Managing Financial Resources
  Chapter  11  Managed Care
  Chapter  12  The Future of Health Services Delivery
  Chapter  13  Advanced Practice Nurses and Public Policy, Naturally
  Chapter  14  Making the Political Process Work
Part  III  Quality and Information for Advanced Nursing Practice
  Chapter  15  Health Care Quality
  Chapter  16  Contributions of the Professional, Public, and Private Sectors in Promoting Patient Safety
  Chapter  17  Information Technology for Advanced Nursing Practice
Part  IV  Theoretical Foundation and Research for Advanced Nursing Practice
  Chapter  18  Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice
  Chapter  19  Values-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Care: Pursuing Fundamental Questions in Nursing Philosophy and Theory
  Chapter  20  Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing
  Chapter  21  Patterns of Knowing: Review, Critique, and Update
  Chapter  22  Multiple Paradigms of Nursing Science
  Chapter  23  Research: How Health Care Advances
  Chapter  24  Knowledge Development in Nursing: Our Historical Roots and Future Opportunities
Part  V  Other Core Knowledge for the Advanced Practice of Nursing
  Chapter  25  Moving Toward a Culturally Competent Profession
  Chapter  26  Race, Race Relations, and the Emergence of Professional Nursing, 1870–2004
  Chapter  27  Introduction to Ethics
  Chapter  28  The Role of Codes of Ethics in Nursing’s Disciplinary Knowledge
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Anne M. Barker, EdD, RN-Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Anne M. Barker is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where she teaches patient care services administration at the graduate level and leadership and management at the undergraduate level. She has extensive leadership experience at the clinical level in acute care settings and in nursing education. Anne has written two previous books, Transformational Nursing Leadership: A Vision for the Future and Leadership in Dietetics: Achieving a Vision for the Future.

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