Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession — 4th Edition

What you’ll find inside

Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession, Fourth Edition, edited by Susan M. DeNisco, is a broad reference for master’s-level and Doctor of Nursing Practice study. It brings together chapters by contributors in advanced nursing practice and frames the material around the AACN’s master’s Essentials and doctoral education Essentials. The book looks at APRN roles alongside the systems, policies and professional skills that shape patient care.

Roles, education and leadership

The first part introduces professional roles, nurse-practitioner education, DNP preparation and emerging areas such as nurse education, administration, public health, entrepreneurship and informatics. Additional chapters examine leadership and change, collaboration across professions, and how advanced-practice nurses can contribute to patient and population health. Discussion questions at the end of chapters support review and classroom use.

Healthcare systems and quality

Later parts move into healthcare delivery and policy, regulation, advocacy, finance and business fundamentals. The contents also cover quality and safety, outcome improvement, health information technology and electronic health records. Jones & Bartlett Learning identifies a new quality-improvement-project chapter for this fourth edition, along with expanded attention to cultural sensitivity, global health and leadership competency. Together, these topics connect the advanced practice role with the organizational context in which care is delivered.

Who may use this book?

The fourth edition is suited to graduate nursing students in master’s and DNP programs, particularly courses that combine role development with policy, leadership, healthcare systems or quality improvement. Its compiled-chapter format makes it a wide-ranging course reference; readers can use the contents to locate the role or system topic relevant to a course module.

Edition and file details

The product record identifies a PDF of the fourth edition. Review the four-image preview, confirm the editor and edition against your course list, and browse the nursing and midwifery collection. For clinical-assessment study, compare it with Advanced Assessment, Fourth Edition or return to the ebook catalog.