Role development for doctoral advanced nursing practice

Functioning as both a graduate and professional textbook, this book explores the historical and evolving role of the new doctoral advanced practice registered nurse.

This innovative text presents a distinctive two-part chapter organization that provides content followed by one or more Reflective Responses, which consist of commentaries that may counter or support the opinions of each chapter author. Written by well-known DNP leaders representing the diverse roles and experience of academics, administrators, and practitioners from different DNP programs, these Reflective Responses initiate thought-provoking classroom discussion. This stimulating and provocative text presents issues germane to DNP education, core competencies, and unfolding role development. It is an essential resource in DNP role development courses and courses covering contemporary DNP degree issues.

-Provides background information on the evolution of the DNP degree, essential content on role theory, and what nursing "roles" are and how they are evolving.

-Discusses how master's versus doctoral-level advanced nursing practice roles differ.

-Focuses on the basic roles of the DNP graduate that currently predominate: practitioner, clinical executive, educator, clinical scientist, and the role of the clinical scholar.

-Highlights how the DNP can use his or her new competencies to function at a higher level.

-Covers the diverse skills that comprise the doctoral APRN and doctoral APN role, including leadership content, negotiation skills, leveraging technology to support doctoral advanced level practice, and more --Book Jacket.

The historical and political path of doctoral nursing education to the doctor of nursing practice degree / Dreher -- Role theory and the evolution of professional roles in nursing / Dreher and Uribe -- The evolution of advanced practice nursing roles / Gardner, Posmontier, and Conti -- How doctoral-level advanced practice roles differ from masters-level advanced practice nursing roles / Montgomery and Byrne -- The role of the practitioner / Bellini and Cusson -- The role of the clinical executive / Talbert and Dennison -- The role of the educator / Wittman-Price, Waite, and Woda -- The role of the clinical scientist / Dreher, Jones, and Gifford-Hollingsworth -- The clinical scholar role in doctoral advanced nursing practice / Gonzalez and Esperat -- Role strain in the doctorally prepared advanced practice nurse : the experiences of doctor of nursing practice graduates in their current professional positions / Smith Glasgow and Zoucha -- Career development strategies to support nurses engaged in doctoral advanced nursing practice : understanding trends and mining opportunities / Smith Glasgow and Donnelly -- Leadership and the DNP-educated nurse executive : revisiting the AACN's ei…