Week 2 role of APN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Definition of APN - ANS ✔✔Pt 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
Advanced practice nursing is a concept - ANS ✔✔A function of educational and practice
preparation and a constellation of primary criteria and core competencies
Direct clinical practice - ANS ✔✔Is the central competency of any APN role and informs all the
other competencies
Advanced nursing practice - ANS ✔✔Is not the same as advanced practice nursing it is
characterized by the integration and application of a broad range of theoretical an evidence-
based knowledge that occurs as part of graduate nursing education
Who started the first nurse practitioner program at university of Colorado in 1965 - ANS
✔✔Henry silver MD and Loretta ford RN
Specialization - ANS ✔✔Involves focusing on practice in a specific area derived from the field of
professional nursing
Subspecialization - ANS ✔✔Further delineates the focus of practice. in subspecialty practice
knowledge and skill in a delimited clinical area is expanded further with this expanding
knowledge and skill there is potentially further advancement of theoretical, evidence-based,
and practical knowledge in caring for a specific patient population base. examples of sub
specialty practices within the specialty of adult health nursing include diabetes, transplant, and
palliative care
, Clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Manage the care of complex and vulnerable populations.
Educate and support nursing and interdisciplinary staff, and facilitate change and innovation in
healthcare systems
Competency of the clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Direct care consultation. System leader
ship. Collaboration. Coaching, research, ethical decision making, moral agency, advocacy
Anesthesia care is provided by CRNAs in four general categories - ANS ✔✔Pre-anesthetic
evaluation and preparation, anesthesia induction maintenance and emergence, post anesthesia
care, and perry anesthetic and clinical support functions
The American Association of nurse anesthetist (AANA) purpose - ANS ✔✔Assist in evaluating
cRNA care, common foundation, hope public understand what to expect, support basic rights
Clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Direct care to patients with complex diseases, improve patient
care developing skills in judgment, retain nurses
Seven core competencies of practice - ANS ✔✔Direct care, guidance and coaching,
consultation, evidence-based practice, leadership, collaboration, ethical decision making
Characteristics that comprise APN direct care - ANS ✔✔Use of a holistic perspective, formation
of therapeutic partnerships with patients, expert clinical performance, use of reflective practice,
use of evidence as a guide to practice, use of diverse approaches to health and illness
management
Anticipatory - ANS ✔✔Help patients know what to expect, inform health process
Guiding and coaching model includes - ANS ✔✔Patient education, APN guidance, anticipatory
guidance, and a revised definition of APN coaching
ANSWERS GRADED A+
Definition of APN - ANS ✔✔Pt 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
Advanced practice nursing is a concept - ANS ✔✔A function of educational and practice
preparation and a constellation of primary criteria and core competencies
Direct clinical practice - ANS ✔✔Is the central competency of any APN role and informs all the
other competencies
Advanced nursing practice - ANS ✔✔Is not the same as advanced practice nursing it is
characterized by the integration and application of a broad range of theoretical an evidence-
based knowledge that occurs as part of graduate nursing education
Who started the first nurse practitioner program at university of Colorado in 1965 - ANS
✔✔Henry silver MD and Loretta ford RN
Specialization - ANS ✔✔Involves focusing on practice in a specific area derived from the field of
professional nursing
Subspecialization - ANS ✔✔Further delineates the focus of practice. in subspecialty practice
knowledge and skill in a delimited clinical area is expanded further with this expanding
knowledge and skill there is potentially further advancement of theoretical, evidence-based,
and practical knowledge in caring for a specific patient population base. examples of sub
specialty practices within the specialty of adult health nursing include diabetes, transplant, and
palliative care
, Clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Manage the care of complex and vulnerable populations.
Educate and support nursing and interdisciplinary staff, and facilitate change and innovation in
healthcare systems
Competency of the clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Direct care consultation. System leader
ship. Collaboration. Coaching, research, ethical decision making, moral agency, advocacy
Anesthesia care is provided by CRNAs in four general categories - ANS ✔✔Pre-anesthetic
evaluation and preparation, anesthesia induction maintenance and emergence, post anesthesia
care, and perry anesthetic and clinical support functions
The American Association of nurse anesthetist (AANA) purpose - ANS ✔✔Assist in evaluating
cRNA care, common foundation, hope public understand what to expect, support basic rights
Clinical nurse specialist - ANS ✔✔Direct care to patients with complex diseases, improve patient
care developing skills in judgment, retain nurses
Seven core competencies of practice - ANS ✔✔Direct care, guidance and coaching,
consultation, evidence-based practice, leadership, collaboration, ethical decision making
Characteristics that comprise APN direct care - ANS ✔✔Use of a holistic perspective, formation
of therapeutic partnerships with patients, expert clinical performance, use of reflective practice,
use of evidence as a guide to practice, use of diverse approaches to health and illness
management
Anticipatory - ANS ✔✔Help patients know what to expect, inform health process
Guiding and coaching model includes - ANS ✔✔Patient education, APN guidance, anticipatory
guidance, and a revised definition of APN coaching
