内容简介:
This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) text defines practice scholarship for the DNP role and facilitates the sound development of key leadership skills that will enable DNP graduates to effectively influence politics and health care policy in order to improve health care outcomes. The text addresses the challenge, for faculty and students, of successfully integrating core competencies into required DNP curriculum. It covers the growth and development of the DNP role, its relationship to ongoing scholarship, application of core competencies to APRN role development, evidence-based practice, health information technology and the transformation of health care in the 21st century, and policy and political issues. It will be of particular value not only to students, but also to professors who will welcome the masterful organization and clarity of a highly complex DNP curriculum.Key Features: Simplifies highly complex DNP curriculum and integrates DNP core competencies throughoutDemonstrates the application of core competencies to practice and aggregate careProvides a well-organized supplement to all courses across the DNP curriculumUses exemplars to illustrate effective implementationGuides students toward achieving a thorough understanding of how DNP graduates utilize core competencies