DNP Education, Practice, and Policy: Mastering the DNP Essentials for Advanced Nursing Practice

First edition named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title—5 stars! The second edition of this distinguished text—designed for use across the entire DNP curriculum—defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared professional nurse and promotes the development of key leadership skills needed to effectively influence healthcare policy and improve outcomes. Weaving the eight AACN DNP competencies throughout, the second edition clarifies, updates, and demonstrates their application. The text incorporates updates to the AACN’s 2015 position statement, The DNP: Current Issues and Clarifying Recommendations, and the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report, and delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders. Focusing heavily on improving aggregate care, strengthening leadership roles, and influencing health policy, the second edition continues to address APRN and nurse executive roles, health information technology, outcomes measurement, and the relationship of the DNP graduate to ongoing scholarship. The text’s challenging and thoughtprovoking content is of particular value not only to students, but also to professors who will welcome the clarity it offers to the highly complex DNP curriculum. New to the Second Edition: Reflects the most current thinking about the DNP degree and clarifies recommendations from the AACN task force on implementing the DNP curriculum Incorporates recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report Demonstrates the application of core competencies to practice and aggregate care Offers contemporary examples of DNP competencies and role integration Focuses primarily on developing key leadership skills for influencing healthcare policy and improving outcomes Delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders Key Features: Simplifies the highly complex DNP curriculum and integrates DNP core competencies Broadly defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared nurse and promotes development of key leadership skills Provides a versatile supplement to all courses across the DNP curriculum Prepares the DNP to analyze and influence health policy Incorporates policy statements from the ANA, AONE, NCSBN, AANP, AANA, and ACNM Demonstrates the integration of health policy with cross-sector collaboration to advance a “culture of health” agenda

Table of Contents:
Contents Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Share DNP Education, Practice, and Policy: Redesigning Advanced Practice for the 21st Century, Second Edition SECTION I: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTOR OF NURSING PRACTICE ROLES Stephanie W. Ahmed Chapter 1: Evolution to Revolution: Positioning Advanced Practice to Influence Contemporary Healthcare Arenas Stephanie W. Ahmed and Karen Anne Wolf Chapter 2: How Will the DNP Contribute to the “Future” in The Future of Nursing (2011, 2015) Reports? Ann H. Cary Chapter 3: Beyond Outcomes: Understanding and Impacting the Patient Experience Christina Dempsey SECTION II: SCHOLARSHIP AND THE DNP Linda C. Andrist Chapter 4: The Formation of Clinical Scholars: The Generation of Nursing Knowledge From Practice Linda C. Andrist and Katherine Crabtree Chapter 5: DNP Project: Development, Implementation, Evaluation, and Dissemination Margie H. Sipe and Linda C. Andrist Chapter 6: Nurse Executive and Administration Views of DNP Scholarly Projects: System Change Improving Sepsis Mortality With the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program Theresa Trivette Introducing Mindfulness as a Tool to Reduce Nurse Leaders’ Stress Christine Buckley Explicating Theory-Based Care Coordination Nursing Practice Joanne Hogan Enhanced Huddles: A Translational Tool to Bring Evidence-Based Information to Clinical Practice Rollie Perea Interprofessional Team Care for Heart Failure: A Home Health Quality Pilot Maura McQueeney Chapter 7: DNP Scholarly Projects: Students’ Experiences Family Nurse Practitioner Seeks to Better Identify and Counsel Vaccine Hesitant Parents John T. Connors Caregiver Asthma Knowledge and Children’s Asthma Control: Challenges Encountered Paulette D. Long Adult Gerontology Acute Care NP Seeks to Improve Performance With Anticoagulation Management Pamela A. Bessmer Psychiatric Mental Health NP Tackles Policy Redesign to Improve Outcomes for Patients Dually Diagnosed Cenean Walls Raphemot The Development of an NP Post-Stroke Depression Screening at 2 and 4 Weeks Postdischarge Karen L. Yarbrough SECTION III: APPLICATION OF THE ESSENTIALS TO ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE Sheila M. Davis Chapter 8: Personal Perspectives on Role Integration Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences Joanne Hogan The DNP Executive Laura J. Wood Moving Out of the Nurse Leader Comfort Zone to Effect Change Elaine Bridge Who Better to Lead? Lisa Sgarlata Growth Opportunities Claire Simone Clinician and Educator Michael Sanchez Nurse Informaticist John Roberts Chapter 9: Leadership Skill Set for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Susan Doyle-Lindrud and Jeffrey Kwong Chapter 10: Developing the Leadership Skill Set for the Executive Nurse Leader Jeanette Ives Erickson, Marianne Ditomassi, and Jeffrey M. Adams Chapter 11: Finding Our Voices: Defining Ourselves Judith Webb and Leah McKinnon-Howe SECTION IV: THE SCHOLARSHIP OF PRACTICE Valerie J. Fuller Chapter 12: Evidence-Based Practice: The Scholarship Behind the Practice Valerie Fuller, Debra Gillespie, and Debra Kramlich Chapter 13: The Scholarship Supporting Leadership, Organizations, and Systems Marjorie S. Wiggins and Kristina Hyrkäs Chapter 14: Transformation of Healthcare and Health Information Technology Anna Schoenbaum Chapter 15: Outcomes Measurement Lisa Colombo SECTION V: INTRODUCTION: POLICY, POLITICS, AND THE DNP Stephanie W. Ahmed Chapter 16: Effective Policy and Advocacy for Nurses Engaged in Advanced Practice Stacey Ober and Sarah Wilkie Chapter 17: Advancing Systems Thinking and Cross-Sector Collaboration to Create a Culture of Health Maureen Sroczynski, Edna Cadmus, and Patricia A. Polansky Chapter 18: The Critical Need for Global Nursing Leadership Sheila M. Davis, Inge Corless, and Patrice Nicholas Index

About the Author :
Stephanie W. Ahmed, DNP, FNP-BC, DPNAP, is the executive director for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. Linda C. Andrist, PhD, RN, WHNP, is a professor emerita at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing, Boston. Sheila M. Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, is the chief of clinical operations and chief nursing officer at Partners In Health, an international nongovernmental organization working in 10 countries providing comprehensive healthcare and services for the poor globally. Valerie J. Fuller, PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP is an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner who works in the Department of Surgery at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. She is the Region 1 Director to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Board Chair and APRN member of the Maine State Board of Nursing, and Past President of the Maine Nurse Practitioner Association. She is actively involved in APRN education, practice, and policy issues at local, state and national levels. Her clinical and research interests include vascular surgery, wound care, and delirium.