Unit 1 The Evolution of Advanced
Practice
1 Advanced Practice Nursing:
Doing What Has to Be Done 3
Lynne M. Dunphy
2 Emerging Roles of the Advanced
Practice Nurse 18
Patricia A. Tabloski
3 Role Development: A Theoretical
Perspective 34
Lucille A. Joel
4 Educational Preparation of Advanced
Practice Nurses: Looking to the
Future 44
Phyllis Shanley Hansell
5 Global Perspectives on Advanced
Practice Nursing 56
Madrean Schober
Unit 2 The Practice Environment
6 Advanced Practice Nurses
and Prescriptive Authority 105
Jan Towers
7 Credentialing and Clinical Privileges
for the Advanced Practice Nurse 113
Ann H. Cary and Mary C. Smolenski
8 The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative
Practice 129
Alice F. Kuehn and Patricia Murphy
9 Participation of the Advanced Practice
Nurse in Health Plans and Quality
Initiatives 157
Rita Munley Gallagher
10 Public Policy and the Advanced
Practice Nurse 172
Marie-Eileen Onieal
11 Resource Management 180
Cindy Aiena, Eileen Flaherty, and Antigone Grasso
12 Mediated Roles: Working With
and Through Other People 200
Thomas D. Smith, Maria L. Vezina, Mary E. Samost,
and Kelly Reilly
Unit 3 Competency in Advanced
Practice
13 Evidence-Based Practice 221
Christine A. Tanner, Deborah C. Messecar, and Basia
Delawska-Elliott
14 Advocacy and the Advanced
Practice Nurse 239
Andrea Brassard
15 Case Management and Advanced
Practice Nursing 249
Denise Fessler and Mary Ann Christopher
16 The Advanced Practice Nurse
and Research 266
Beth Quatrara and Dale Shaw

Holism and Complementary
and Integrative Health Approaches
for the Advanced Practice Nurse 277
Carole Ann Drick
18 Basic Skills for Teaching and the
Advanced Practice Nurse 306
Christina Leonard, Valerie Sabol, and Marilyn H.
Oermann
19 Culture as a Variable in Practice 324
Mary Masterson Germain
20 Conflict Resolution in Advanced
Practice Nursing 359
David M. Price
21 Leadership for APNs: If Not Now,
When? 368
Edna Cadmus
22 Information Technology
and the Advanced Practice Nurse 386
Robert Scoloveno
23 Writing for Publication 393
Shirley A. Smoyak
Unit 4 Ethical, Legal,
and Business Acumen
24 Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse
Performance: Outcome Indicators,
Models of Evaluation, and the Issue
of Value 407
Shirley Girouard, Patricia DiFusco, and Joseph Jennas
25 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses:
Accomplishments, Trends,
and Future Directions 429
Allyssa L. Harris, Jane M. Flanagan,
and Dorothy A. Jones
26 Starting a Practice and Practice
Management 441
Judith Barberio
27 The Advanced Practice Nurse as
Employee or Independent
Contractor: Legal and Contractual
Considerations 467
Kathleen M. Gialanella
28 The Law, the Courts, and the Advanced
Practice Nurse 483
David M. Keepnews
29 It Can Happen to You: Malpractice
and the Advanced Practice Nurse 495
Carolyn T. Torre
30 Ethics and the Advanced
Practice Nurse 511
Carrie Scotto
Index 529