INSTRUCTIONS
Today’s health care environment poses diverse and complex patient care challenges requiring a highly qualified and experienced nursing workforce. Advanced nursing practice roles have different qualification requirements to help mitigate these challenges. Master’s-prepared nurses can distinguish the uniqueness of each role, identifying their distinct perspectives and shared perspectives of other disciplines via collaboration and interprofessional interaction.
Create an essay addressing the following:
- Provide a brief introduction (four to six sentences). You may use the topical sections below as level one headings in the paper to help guide your content development. Be sure to stay within the page requirements, including only what is necessary.
Advanced Nursing Education Program
- Identify the Master of Nursing program in which you are enrolled. The specific program title should be correct. Describe the program briefly.
- Include the required courses. You should include all the courses you must take to complete the program with the course number and title. Keep this content condensed and in a single space if making a list with bullets.
- Present a timeline for program completion. You can include the course names and numbers via a detailed timeline using a simple table, adding terms or dates for the completion plan.
- Provide content on how three specific courses identified relate to the Master of Nursing preparation for your specific advanced role.
Certification
- Identify the related certifying body/bodies for the specific role. If there are two for the role, you can identify one certifying body.
- Include the name of the specific certification test that applies to your program.
- Include the requirements to sit for the certification examination.
- Identify the credential abbreviation once certification is achieved.
- Include aspects of state licensure on the role.
- Include if certification is required to practice under the credential.
Advanced Nursing Distinct Role
- Describe/define the advanced nursing role related to your program. If the role is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), clarify the distinct population.
- Includes key aspects of licensure and certification: the difference between licensure and certification and why each is important (qualification demonstration, etc.).
- Includes two leadership aspects of the specific advanced nursing role duties/ responsibilities.
- Identify two possible nursing career choices within this specific advanced nursing degree and the distinct perspective of these particular roles.
- Identify the need for lifelong learning in these roles.
- Include content on how you will develop clinical judgment for your role.
Shared Perspectives
- Identify a distinct perspective of the advanced nursing practice role.
- Identify two interdisciplinary collaboration examples that may be related to the day-to-day function of the distinct advanced role.
- What shared perspectives might exist?
Conclusion
- The conclusion of a paper should provide closure for the reader. The main ideas can be revisited briefly, and the importance of the paper finalized. New information should not be in this section. It is a summary of the content.
Your paper must be submitted in a single Microsoft Word document. The paper should be three to five content pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
An introduction and conclusion are required in all essays and are considered part of the content length. The paper must use proper APA formatting as directed in the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, including the title page and reference page, with properly formatted citations in the body of the paper. The paper should include at least three peer-reviewed resources that are less than 5 years old.
You are encouraged to consult the Academic Success Center prior to submitting your paper. To view the grading rubric for this assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
- Be sure to read the assignment description carefully (as displayed above).
- Consult the grading rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary.
- Utilize spelling and grammar checks to minimize errors.
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ANSWER
Advanced nursing roles are essential in today’s complex healthcare environment. These roles require specialized education and training to meet the needs of diverse patient populations. Nurses prepared at the master’s level are equipped with advanced knowledge and clinical skills to deliver high-quality care (Kumar et al., 2020). Through education, certification, and collaboration, they take on leadership responsibilities and promote improved outcomes. This paper will discuss a specific advanced nursing program, certification requirements, role distinctions, and the importance of shared perspectives in interprofessional healthcare teams…. To access full answer, use the purchase button below.