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DNP Education, Practice, and Policy

Mastering the DNP Essentials for Advanced Nursing Practice

Second Edition
Editors

Stephanie Ahmed, DNP, FNP-BC, DPNAP

Linda Andrist, PhD, RN, WHNP

Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN

Valerie J. Fuller, PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP

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First edition named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title—5 stars!

The second edition of this distinguished text—designed for use across the entire DNP curriculum—defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared professional nurse and promotes the development of key leadership skills needed to effectively influence healthcare policy and improve outcomes. Weaving the eight AACN DNP competencies throughout, the second edition clarifies, updates, and demonstrates their application. The text incorporates updates to the AACN’s 2015 position statement, The DNP: Current Issues and Clarifying Recommendations, and the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report, and delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders.

Focusing heavily on improving aggregate care, strengthening leadership roles, and influencing health policy, the second edition continues to address APRN and nurse executive roles, health information technology, outcomes measurement, and the relationship of the DNP graduate to ongoing scholarship. The text’s challenging and thoughtprovoking content is of particular value not only to students, but also to professors who will welcome the clarity it offers to the highly complex DNP curriculum.

New to the Second Edition:

  • Reflects the most current thinking about the DNP degree and clarifies recommendations from the AACN task force on implementing the DNP curriculum
  • Incorporates recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report
  • Demonstrates the application of core competencies to practice and aggregate care
  • Offers contemporary examples of DNP competencies and role integration
  • Focuses primarily on developing key leadership skills for influencing healthcare policy and improving outcomes
  • Delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders

Key Features:

  • Simplifies the highly complex DNP curriculum and integrates DNP core competencies
  • Broadly defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared nurse and promotes development of key leadership skills
  • Provides a versatile supplement to all courses across the DNP curriculum
  • Prepares the DNP to analyze and influence health policy
  • Incorporates policy statements from the ANA, AONE, NCSBN, AANP, AANA, and ACNM
  • Demonstrates the integration of health policy with cross-sector collaboration to advance a “culture of health” agenda
Contents

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Share DNP Education, Practice, and Policy: Redesigning Advanced Practice for the 21st Century, Second Edition

SECTION I: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE ROLES

Stephanie W. Ahmed

Chapter 1: Evolution to Revolution: Positioning Advanced Practice to Influence Contemporary Healthcare Arenas

Stephanie W. Ahmed and Karen Anne Wolf

Chapter 2: How Will the DNP Contribute to the “Future” in The Future of Nursing (2011, 2015) Reports?

Ann H. Cary

Chapter 3: Beyond Outcomes: Understanding and Impacting the Patient Experience

Christina Dempsey

SECTION II: SCHOLARSHIP AND THE DNP

Linda C. Andrist

Chapter 4: The Formation of Clinical Scholars: The Generation of Nursing Knowledge From Practice

Linda C. Andrist and Katherine Crabtree

Chapter 5: DNP Project: Development, Implementation, Evaluation, and Dissemination

Margie H. Sipe and Linda C. Andrist

Chapter 6: Nurse Executive and Administration Views of DNP Scholarly Projects: System Change

Improving Sepsis Mortality With the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program

Theresa Trivette

Introducing Mindfulness as a Tool to Reduce Nurse Leaders’ Stress

Christine Buckley

Explicating Theory-Based Care Coordination Nursing Practice

Joanne Hogan

Enhanced Huddles: A Translational Tool to Bring Evidence-Based Information to Clinical Practice

Rollie Perea

Interprofessional Team Care for Heart Failure: A Home Health Quality Pilot

Maura McQueeney

Chapter 7: DNP Scholarly Projects: Students’ Experiences

Family Nurse Practitioner Seeks to Better Identify and Counsel Vaccine Hesitant Parents

John T. Connors

Caregiver Asthma Knowledge and Children’s Asthma Control: Challenges Encountered

Paulette D. Long

Adult Gerontology Acute Care NP Seeks to Improve Performance With Anticoagulation Management

Pamela A. Bessmer

Psychiatric Mental Health NP Tackles Policy Redesign to Improve Outcomes for Patients Dually Diagnosed

Cenean Walls Raphemot

The Development of an NP Post-Stroke Depression Screening at 2 and 4 Weeks Postdischarge

Karen L. Yarbrough

SECTION III: APPLICATION OF THE ESSENTIALS TO ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE

Sheila M. Davis

Chapter 8: Personal Perspectives on Role Integration

Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences

Joanne Hogan

The DNP Executive

Laura J. Wood

Moving Out of the Nurse Leader Comfort Zone to Effect Change

Elaine Bridge

Who Better to Lead?

Lisa Sgarlata

Growth Opportunities

Claire Simone

Clinician and Educator

Michael Sanchez

Nurse Informaticist

John Roberts

Chapter 9: Leadership Skill Set for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Susan Doyle-Lindrud and Jeffrey Kwong

Chapter 10: Developing the Leadership Skill Set for the Executive Nurse Leader

Jeanette Ives Erickson, Marianne Ditomassi, and Jeffrey M. Adams

Chapter 11: Finding Our Voices: Defining Ourselves

Judith Webb and Leah McKinnon-Howe

SECTION IV: THE SCHOLARSHIP OF PRACTICE

Valerie J. Fuller

Chapter 12: Evidence-Based Practice: The Scholarship Behind the Practice

Valerie Fuller, Debra Gillespie, and Debra Kramlich

Chapter 13: The Scholarship Supporting Leadership, Organizations, and Systems

Marjorie S. Wiggins and Kristina Hyrkäs

Chapter 14: Transformation of Healthcare and Health Information Technology

Anna Schoenbaum

Chapter 15: Outcomes Measurement

Lisa Colombo

SECTION V: INTRODUCTION: POLICY, POLITICS, AND THE DNP

Stephanie W. Ahmed

Chapter 16: Effective Policy and Advocacy for Nurses Engaged in Advanced Practice

Stacey Ober and Sarah Wilkie

Chapter 17: Advancing Systems Thinking and Cross-Sector Collaboration to Create a Culture of Health

Maureen Sroczynski, Edna Cadmus, and Patricia A. Polansky

Chapter 18: The Critical Need for Global Nursing Leadership

Sheila M. Davis, Inge Corless, and Patrice Nicholas

Index

Authors

Stephanie W. Ahmed, DNP, FNP-BC, DPNAP, is the executive director for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Linda C. Andrist, PhD, RN, WHNP, is a professor emerita at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing, Boston.

Sheila M. Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, is the chief of clinical operations and chief nursing officer at Partners In Health, an international nongovernmental organization working in 10 countries providing comprehensive healthcare and services for the poor globally.

Valerie J. Fuller, PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP is an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner who works in the Department of Surgery at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. She is the Region 1 Director to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Board Chair and APRN member of the Maine State Board of Nursing, and Past President of the Maine Nurse Practitioner Association. She is actively involved in APRN education, practice, and policy issues at local, state and national levels. Her clinical and research interests include vascular surgery, wound care, and delirium.

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Product Details
  • Release Date: April 12, 2018
  • Paperback / softback
  • 296 Pages
  • Trim Size: 7in x 10in
  • ISBN: 9780826140180
  • eBook ISBN: 9780826140197
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