Instructions

Overview/Description of Final Paper: The final written assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: APRNs, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator/executive. You will review all roles and then examine the specialty for which you were admitted, focusing on the scope of practice, core competencies, certification requirements, and legal aspects of practice for that specific role. You will also identify the practice environment and population you will be working with, as well as peers and colleagues. In addition, you will discuss your future leadership role and participation in professional organizations.

Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. The paper should be 8-10 pages excluding the title and reference pages, and APA format is required.

Criteria:  

• Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing:
  • Briefly define advance nursing practice and the roles in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and health information. Distinguish between ANP and the APN.
  • Describe the advance nursing practice role you aspire and briefly share the experiences and/or qualities you have that have influenced your decision. Include your personal philosophy.
• Selected Advanced Practice Role:
  • Identify the AP you interviewed and summarize the interview, which should/may include (if not in the interview, please address):
  • Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice/work.
  • Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role.
  • Identify required competencies (domains), including certification requirements for your selected role.
  • Describe the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work.
• Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role:
  • Determine your leadership style
  • Define Transformational Leadership and as it relates to your identified leadership attributes that you possess or need to develop
  • Apply the leadership style you will embrace in AP to one of the domains
• Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role

Based on your program of study, review the literature and address the following:

• FNP/AGNP:Medicare reimbursement for NPs is 85%for the same health care that MDs receive at 100% reimbursement? Please address questions below and state your position on this mandate.
• FNP/AGNP:What states have NP Full Practice Authority and which states have limitations or restrictions? How does this apply to your state? Please address questions below and state your position on this regulation.

For the above category chosen, address the following:

• Describe the current policy or trends and determine if it needs to change; if opposed to change state why
• Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest; support opposition
• Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy or keep the policy the same and the impact in healthcare quality.
• Conclusion-Summarize your role paper by highlighting key points made in your paper.

Submission Details:

• Support your responses with examples.
• Cite any sources in APA format.

1) **********minimum 4 full pages (1 page each document) ( not words)**************************** (cover or reference page not included)

2)¨**********APA norms  (All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs)

3)********** It will be verified by Turnitin and SafeAssign 

4) References not older than 5 years

5) Each answer must be identified according to the question number. Check the list of questions. 

Your answer should start objectively answering the question

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You must answer (2) question 4 times. 

You must submit 4 documents (each one 1 page).

Copy and paste will not be admitted. 

You should address the questions with different wording, different references, but always, objectively answering the questions

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Case:

Reflect on the current roles of advanced practice nurses in healthcare as the care providers at the front line of disease management and health promotion in primary care and many other specialty settings. 

Questions:

1) What do you think are some effective tactics for APN strategic positioning regarding pay equality? 

2) Should APNs position themselves as lower-cost providers who provide better care or push for comparable worth, same service and same pay?

Below is an article that provides great practical information that highlights how provider productivity is calculated in the clinical setting, which is important to know as future nurse practitioners.

Calculating Your Worth: Understanding Productivity and Value- 

See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093517/ 

You are the registered nurse performing a health assessment on a newborn infant. From the functional health pattern portion of the assessment, you learn the mother is reluctant to breastfeed her baby. How do you respond? Explain the approach you will take to ensure adequate nutrition for the newborn, with or without breastfeeding. Provide rationale for your answer.

• What are the economic costs of this health problem for society, families, and individuals?
• What are the social costs (cost in any means such as time, human resource, social burden) associated with this health problem for society and individuals?
• Use data (statistics) from credible sources to support your discussion.
• Using APA format, create a reference list citing all the sources used in writing your paper.
• Interpret and include at least one graph or table that relates to the content of your paper. You will discuss the graph or table as part of your narrative and include the graph or table in an Appendix at the end of your paper. Cite the source for the tables or graphs below each one and in the reference list using APA format.

1. Each focus paper must be written in a scholarly manner using proper APA format (6th edition).
2. Each focus paper must be at least 750 words in length. The 750 words do not include the title page, reference list or appendix.
3. Your paper should not consist of more than 10% of direct quotes. This means that in a 750-word paper, no more than 75 words can be directly quoted from a source. Points will be deducted from papers exceeding the 10% limit. Instead of quoting, paraphrase the information in your own words.
4. Your papers must be submitted as MS Office Word documents, using a 12-point font, double spaced and with page numbers upper right corner of each page.
5. In each focus paper, you must use at least three different credible, professional references to support your discussion.  Your references should be cited in-text and in a reference list using proper APA format.
6. The order of your paper should be: title page, body of your paper, reference list and appendix. 

• Type of paperResearch Paper
• SubjectNursing
• Number of pages5
• Format of citationAPA
• Number of cited resources4
• Type of serviceWriting

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