What is Advanced Practice Nursing?

 

THE TASK

 

     Make a review or peer response on the essay below

  • Length: A minimum of 150 words per post, not including references
  • Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA per post from within the last 5 years

The practice of nursing is guided by standards and definitions established by leaders of nursing in professional associations. The most widely accepted framework for nursing practice currently in use is the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. The nursing process, consisting of assessment, diagnosis, planning/outcomes, intervention, and evaluation, has been described as the core and essence of nursing, central to all nursing actions. It is a deliberate, logical, and rational problem solving process whereby the practice of nursing is performed systematically. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as a caring-based practice in which processes of diagnosis and treatment are applied to human experiences of health and illness (Schultz, Salazar 1996).

            Advanced practice nursing is the patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations in a specialized clinical area of the larger description of nursing.  

Practicing as an APN is being accountable to patients, the nursing profession, and the licensing board for recognizing limits of knowledge and experience, and planning for the management of situations beyond the APRN’s expertise (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, O’Grady 2013). The self-care deficit nursing theory (SCDNT) can be applied to advance practice developed by Orem. This framework may work especially well in the primary care setting. A study found SCDNT enables advance practice nurses to use nurse-sensitive indicators when evaluating their clinical practice. Translating the ideas of the SCDNT into practice offers a way for primary care nurses to care for an individual as an embedded component of a wider family and society. This theory could guide an APN to understand their patient as an agent who can develop, grow, and adopt a self-care regimen (Yip, 2021)

References

Hamric, A. B., Hanson, C. M., Tracy, M. F., & O’Grady, E. T. (2013). Advanced practice nursing-E-Book: An integrative approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Schultz, P. R., & Salazar, M. K. (1996). Nursing, health, & the environment: Strengthening the relationship to improve the public’s health. Image-the Journal of Nursing Scholarship28(1).

Yip, J. Y. C. (2021). Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice: A Practice Update on the Application of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory. SAGE Open Nursing7, 23779608211011993.

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