NSG 6006 pre-specialty health policy/theory/APN roles Questions With Complete Solutions

Advanced practice nursing is the patient-focused application of an expanded range of competencies to improve health outcomes for patients and populations within a specialized clinical area of the larger discipline of nursing" correct answer: Hamric's definition of advanced practice nursing What is the central competency of any advanced practice nursing regardless of role? correct answer: direct clinical practice ___________________________ and ___________________________ have distinct definitions and cannot be seen as interchangeable. correct answer: Advanced practice nursing/advanced nursing practice The term ____________________________ is characterized by the integration an application of a broad range of theoretical and evidence-based knowledge that occurs as part of graduate nursing education correct answer: Advanced nursing practice Who started the first nurse practitioner program in 1965 at the University of Colorado? correct answer: Henry Silver and Loretta Ford What has influenced the history of advanced practice nursing? correct answer: Societal forces including wars, the economic climate, and health care policy