Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826138624 ISBN 13: 9780826138620

Verlag: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

As the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) role continues to expand in today's health care environment, APRNs are more frequently tasked with quantifying, evaluating, and improving their individual care processes, as well as demonstrating the impact of their care. Revised to provide APRN students and educators, practicing APRNs, and nursing administrators with the most up-to-date information on outcome assessment, the fourth edition of this award-winning text is still the only nursing resource to exclusively focus on outcome assessment.

Written by expert practitioners, educators and researchers, this fourth edition continues to analyze the foundations of outcome assessment, provide guidelines for selecting assessment instruments and measuring results, discuss design and implementation challenges in outcomes assessment, and provide an unequaled wellspring of information that will help APRNs to increase their skill level and enhance their professional practice role. New to this edition, additional sections focus on practice specific quality metrics for demonstrating APRN impact, and provide information on a national collaborative launched specifically to showcase outcomes of APRN-led initiatives as part of the Choosing Wisely Campaign.

New to the Fourth Edition:

• Expanded coverage of DNP impact on outcomes
• Complete updates on practice specific outcomes for all clinical areas of APRN practice including nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwife.
• Instructor Manual including algorithms and teaching tools

Key Features:

Examines in depth the foundations of outcome assessment

Addresses specialty areas of APRN practice and specialty-specific considerations for outcome evaluation

Provides guidelines for selecting assessment instruments and measuring the results

Describes design and implementation pitfalls

Helps APRNs to increase skill level regarding evaluation of outcomes

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, ACNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FCCM, is currently the director of the Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship at Rush University Medical Center and a professor at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago, Illinois. She maintains active practice as an acute care nurse practitioner and serves as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, assisting with clinical scholarship and research initiatives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826138624
• ISBN 13: 9780826138620
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 319
• Herausgeber: Kleinpell Ruth M.
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