Advanced practice nursing [electronic resource] : essentials for role development / [edited by] Lucille A. Joel.

Unit 1. The evolution of advanced practice
Advanced practice nursing : doing what has to be done : radicals, renegades, and rebels / Lynne M. Dunphy
Emerging roles of the advanced practice nurse / Deborah Becker and Caroline Doherty
Role development : a theoretical perspective / Lucille A. Joel
Education for advanced practice / H. Michael Dreher and Al Rundio
Global perspectives on advanced nursing practice / Madrean Schober
Unit 2. The practice environment
Payment for advanced practice nursing service / Karen R. Robinson
Advanced practice nurses and prescriptive authority / Jan Towers
Credentialing and clinical privileges for the advanced practice registered nurse / Ann H. Cary and Mary C. Smolenski
The kaleidoscope of collaborative practice / Alice F. Kuehn
Participation of the advanced practice nurse in health plans and quality initiatives / Rita Munley Gallagher
Resource management / Eileen Flaherty
Mediated roles : working through other people / Thomas D. Smith, Maria L. Vezina, and Mary E. Samost
Unit 3. Competency in advanced practice
Evidence-based practice / Deborah C. Messecar and Christine A. Tanner
Advocacy and the advanced practice nurse / Karen Piren
Case management and advanced practice nursing / Denise Fessler ... [et al.]
The advanced practice nurse and research / Suzanne M. Burns and Beth Quatrara
The advanced practice nurse and complementary therapies / Rothlyn P. Zahourek
Basic skills for teaching and the advanced practice nurse / Marilyn H. Oermann
Culture as a variable in practice / Mary Masterson Germain
Conflict resolution : an essential competency in advanced practice / Phyllis Beck Kritek and Lucille A. Joel
Leadership for APNs : if not now, when? / Edna Cadmus
Unit 4. Ethical, legal, business acumen
Measuring advanced practice nurse performance : outcome indicators, models of evaluation, and the issue of value / Shirley Girouard
Advanced practice registered nurses : accomplishments, trends, and future development / Jane M. Flanagan, Dorothy A. Jones, and Allyssa Harris
Starting a practice and a practice management / Judith Barberio
The advanced practice nurse as employee or independent contractor : legal and contractual considerations / Kathleen M. Gialanella
The law, the courts, and the advanced practice nurse / David Keepnews and Kammie Monarch
Malpractice and the advanced practice nurse / Carolyn T. Torre
Ethics and the advanced practice nurse / Gladys L. Husted, James H. Husted, and Carrie Scotto
Bonus chapter on DavisPlus: Promoting advanced practice nurses to the public / Donna A. Gaffney
Reporting relationships : follow the money / Mary Lou S. Etheredge.