Use the “Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer Template” To Differentiate How Advanced Registered Nurse Roles
Use the “Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer Template” To Differentiate How Advanced Registered Nurse Roles
Use the “Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer Template” To Differentiate How Advanced Registered Nurse Roles
Week 1 Announcement
Hi everyone,
This week we are going to dive right into NUR-513. This first week, we discuss the history of advanced registered nursing (ARN) scope and how it has evolved in its scope and expectations. We will also be researching what the National Academy of Medicine (previously called the Institute of Medicine) recommends for nursing education and how the ARN can impact the health system. You will be completing two discussion questions and responding to your peers’ discussion questions. Finally, your Topic 1 assignment is to complete an online learning environment scavenger hunt. This scavenger hunt can be critical to your success at GCU, so please take the time to read and complete this well.
I look forward to rich discussions with all of you.
Requirements for this week:
1. Topic 1 DQ 1 by 8/6/22 at 11:59 pm
2. Topic 1 DQ 2 by 8/8/22 at 11:59 pm
3. Participation – respond to your peer’s post at least 3 different days this week
4. Assignment – “Navigating the Online Environment Scavenger Hunt”. This is due by 8/10/22 and is worth 50 points.
For full Discussion Question (DQ) points Topics 1-3, you are required to:
- Post your response of at least 150 words.
- Reference at least one source within five years for one of your DQs using APA format.
- When referencing, cite the reference inside your DQ and at the end to support your statements.
For full Participation points, you are required to:
- Post a response to your peers of at least 100 words on 3 different days during the week. Notice this doesn’t just say 3 responses; it must be 3 different days. This is a GCU requirement.
- I mark your response as either “substantial or not substantial” as I read them; watch for those markings throughout the week. If one of your responses was marked as “not substantial,” you will know to add another to receive full participation points that week. However, if you have waited until the last three days to reply to their responses, you will not be able to add another response to receive full participation credit. So I encourage you to respond early in the week and watch for those “substantial” or nonsubstantial” response markings.
As always please reach out if you have questions. However, let’s do this!!!!
Advanced registered nurses work in highly collaborative environments and must collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in order to provide excellent patient care. Besides knowing the role and scope of one’s own practice, it is essential to understand the role and scope of other nurse specialties to ensure effective collaboration among nurses, the organization, and other professionals with whom advanced registered nurses regularly interact.
Use the “Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer Template” to differentiate how advanced registered nurse roles relate to and collaborate with different areas of nursing practice. Compare your future role with one of the following: nurse educator; nurse leader; family nurse practitioner; acute care nurse practitioner; graduate nurse with an emphasis/specialty in public health, health care administration, business, or informatics; clinical nurse specialist; doctor of nursing practice. Indicate in the appropriate columns on the template which roles you are comparing.
Make sure to compare the following areas of practice in your graphic organizer:
Ethics
Education
Leadership
Public Health
Health Care Administration
Informatics
Business/Finance
Specialty (e.g., Family, Acute Care)
Include any regulatory bodies or certification agencies that provide guidance or parameters on how these roles incorporate concepts into practice.
You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
thics
Ethics is an important component in the practice of acute nurse practitioners. Often, ACNPs work to address the needs of patients and families suffering from life threatening conditions. In doing this, they must observe the professional standards that guide their practice. They must also ensure that their behavior demonstrates the protection of the rights of their clients. They must also ensure that they adhere to the moral standards of their practice. In some cases, ACNPs might experience dilemmas in their practice that influence their decision-making (Hinds & Linder, 2020). As a result, it proves important for them to ensure that the decisions that they make are ethically and morally sound. Therefore, ethics is an important determinant of the decisions that ACNPs make in their practice.
Family nurse practitioners are a group of professionals who are trained to address the needs of families as a whole. They provide health education as well as healthcare to families. As they do this, they must adhere to the ethics and professional standards that guide their practice. This can be seen in their adoption of decisions that not only promote safety and quality of care offered to the families but also continuity and sustainability of the adopted interventions. Ethics are therefore important in ensuring that FNPs provide care that optimizes the health outcomes of the families that they serve. They abide by their professional standards and regulations for practice. They also ensure that the environment of care promotes safety, quality, and optimization of health outcomes (Reeves, 2020). FNPs also promote the professional growth and development of other professionals as well as the families they serve. Consequently, ethics is important for them to achieve these objectives.
It is evident that ethics is important for both ACNPs and FNPs. They must abide by the professional standards that guide their practice. They must also promote safety, quality, and efficiency in the care that they offer. The use of ethics in practice between these professions however differs. For instance, ACNPs are largely interested in utilizing ethics in addressing the health needs of patients with acute conditions. This is different in FNPs where the focus is placed on promoting the health and wellbeing of families. This is irrespective of whether they are suffering from acute or chronic illnesses. There is also a strong emphasis on health education as part of ethics for FNPs than in ACNPs.
Education
One is considered an ACNP after completing a master’s degree or a doctoral degree in nursing. One must specialize as an acute nurse practitioner in these levels of study. It is also a mandatory requirement for one to have a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Additional requirements include accreditation and registration with the state’s professional and regulation bodies (Hinds & Linder, 2020).
One is considered a FNP after acquiring a master’s or doctoral degree in nursing. It is a mandatory requirement that one must specialize in family nurse practice. One must also have a bachelor’s degree in nursing. There is also the requirement to be certified to practice as a FNP.
Both specializations require one to have either a master’s or a doctoral degree in nursing. One must have also specialized in these areas of practice. There is also a similarity in the mandatory requirement of a bachelor’s degree in nursing. The only difference between the two is the area of specialization.
Leadership
Leadership is an important component in the practice of ACNPs. ACNPs lead change programs in their settings. They champion the implementation of projects that will promote quality, safety, and efficiency of care. ACNPs can also lead professional teams in their settings. They lead the adoption of collaborative interventions that promote enhanced clinical outcomes. ACNPs also play the role of leadership in implementing evidence-based practice in their settings. They explore the best available clinical evidence that can be used to optimize the health outcomes of their patients.
Family nurse practitioners should also be effective leaders. They lead the implementation of family-focused interventions that will promote their health and wellbeing. They also lead the adoption of interventions that aim at addressing the identified health needs in at the community levels. Through it, they act as change agents in their communities (Reeves, 2020). FNPs also lead the implementation of change projects and evidence-based practice initiatives in their practice.
Leadership is an important skill in both specializations. Leadership is needed in initiating change programs in practice in both specializations. Leadership is also used to initiate change, implementing evidence-based practice, and enhance professional collaboration. However, there is a difference between the leadership skills in the two specializations. ACNPs utilize their leadership skills to address clinical problems affecting their acutely ill patients while FNPs are largely focused on using it to promote change in the families and communities they serve.
Public Health
ACNPs engage in efforts that promote public health. They collaborate with other healthcare professionals in exploring solutions to the most critical issues affecting the health of the public. They also utilize public health data to determine the most critical public health issues affecting their practice. They also provide care to patients and families experiencing injuries and illnesses, hence, the promotion of public health. ACNPs also advocate the adoption of policies that promote the health and wellbeing of their publics at the local, state, and national levels (Hinds & Linder, 2020).
NPs also focus on the promotion of public health. They provide health education to the families they serve as a way of promoting their lifestyle and behavioral change. NPs also utilize public health data to determine the most pressing health issues affecting their communities. They use the data to come up with initiatives that promote public health. FNPs also provide nursing care to families experiencing illnesses and other health problems. Through it, they promote public health. FNPs also advocate the adoption of policies that promote public health at all levels of government.
Both specializations are interested in the promotion of public health. They utilize public health data to determine the most critical issues affecting their publics and the identification of the needed interventions. However, a difference exists in the focus of the two areas of specializations. FNPs focus more on promoting the health of families and communities while ACNPs are highly focused on addressing health issues affecting their patients and ways of addressing them for their recovery and wellbeing.
Health Care Administration
ACNPs have minimal roles to play in health care administration. They can use their leadership and management knowledge to engage in activities that address the needs of their organizations. However, they can lead their units in the implementation of the desired initiatives that promote the safety and quality of care offered to the diverse populations.
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.