Syntheses of Advanced Practice Nursing
Assignment 2: Final Project
Overview/Description: The final assignment will synthesize what you have discovered about the different
advanced practice roles and scope of practice found in the master of nursing curriculum: NP, nurse
educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator. 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 10?12 pages excluding the title and
reference, and APA format is required.
Criteria:
? Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing:
o Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse
administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education,
administration, and research.
Nurse Practitioner:
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nonpf.org/resource/resmgr/Competencies/CompilationPopFocusComps2013.pdf
American Association of Nurse Practitioner (AANP)
https://www.aanp.org/membership
Nurse Educator: https://www.nln.org/professional-development-programs/competencies-for-nursing-
education
Nurse Informatics: https://www.aacn.nche.edu/qsen-informatics/2012-
workshop/presentations/troseth/Roles,_Competencies,_Skills.pdf
Nurse Administrator: file:///C:/Users/Yasin/Downloads/AONE_NEC%20(6).pdf
? Selected Advanced Practice Role: (Nurse Practitioner is my selected choice)
o Examine regulatory and legal requirements for the state in which you plan to practice.
State of California Board of Nursing: NURSE PRACTITIONER PRACTICE
https://www.rn.ca.gov/pdfs/regulations/npr-b-23.pdf
o Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on your selected role.
American Association of Nurse Practitioner (AANP)
https://www.aanp.org/membershipIdentify required competencies, including certification requirements for
your selected role.
o Identify required competencies, including certification requirements for your selected role.
Use attached competency file titled: compares Nurse practitioner or administration
Or use this URL link.
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nonpf.org/resource/resmgr/Competencies/CompilationPopFocusComps2013.pdf
o Predict the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work.
Use the attachment file that is titled: Organization & Setting I will work for
? Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role
o Determine your leadership style.
Refer to the attached document file titled leadership style and attributes and scroll down.
o Identify leadership attributes you currently possess, and attributes you may need to develop.
Refer to the attached document titled: Leadership Styles & Attributes.
o Determine how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes.
Refer to the attached document for my leadership attributes I have and the ones to develop.
? Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role
? Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and-
articles/health-policy.html) and identify a health policy issue. Conduct a review of literature and
address the following:
o Describe the current policy and what needs to change; justify your conclusions with citations from
the literature.
Current Policy: Health Care Cost
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/features/health-policy/health-care-costs.html
And
Institute of Medicine (IOM) & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership Initiative Report. Pages (H-1
through H-27)
https://www.thefutureofnursing.org/sites/default/files/H%20Federal%20Options%20for%20Maximizing%20the%
20Value%20of%20Advanced%20Practice%20Nurses%20in%20Providing%20Quality%2C%20Cost-Effective%20Health%
20Care%20%28385-414%29.pdf
o Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership Initiative Report. Pages (H-1
through H-27)
https://www.thefutureofnursing.org/sites/default/files/H%20Federal%20Options%20for%20Maximizing%20the%
20Value%20of%20Advanced%20Practice%20Nurses%20in%20Providing%20Quality%2C%20Cost-Effective%20Health%
20Care%20%28385-414%29.pdf
o Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy.
Using my Nurse Practitioner degree, I will educate patients and the public in general about the effects
of the issue. I will write to the policy makers both state and federal and highlight the need for
policy change and align the cost with consumer needs.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership Initiative Report. Pages
(Start page H-1)
https://www.thefutureofnursing.org/sites/default/files/H%20Federal%20Options%20for%20Maximizing%20the%
20Value%20of%20Advanced%20Practice%20Nurses%20in%20Providing%20Quality%2C%20Cost-Effective%20Health%
20Care%20%28385-414%29.pdf
o Predict the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented.
Institute of Medicine (IOM) & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership Initiative Report. Pages (H-1
through H-27)
https://www.thefutureofnursing.org/sites/default/files/H%20Federal%20Options%20for%20Maximizing%20the%
20Value%20of%20Advanced%20Practice%20Nurses%20in%20Providing%20Quality%2C%20Cost-Effective%20Health%
20Care%20%28385-414%29.pdf