New April 2010.

Supporting nursing program.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advanced practice nursing: doing what has to be done -- radicals, renegades, and rebels -- Emerging roles of the advanced practice nurse -- Role development: a theoretical perspective -- Education for advanced practice -- Global perspectives on advanced nursing practice -- Payment for advanced practice nursing services: past, present, and future -- Advanced practice nurses and prescriptive authority -- Credentialing and clinical privileges and the advanced practice nurse -- The kaleidoscope of collaborative practice -- Participation of the advanced practice nurse in managed care and quality initiatives -- Resource management -- Mediated roles: working through other people -- Reporting relationships: follow the money -- Evidence-based practice -- Advocacy and the advanced practice nurse -- Case management and advanced practice nursing -- The advanced practice nurse and research -- The advanced practice nurse and complementary therapies -- Basic skills for teaching and the advanced practice nurse -- Culture as a variable in practice -- Conflict resolution: an essential competency in advanced practice -- Evaluation of the advanced practice nurse: cost efficiency, accomplishments, trends, and future development -- Promoting advanced practice nurses to the public -- Starting a practice and practice management -- The advanced practice nurse as employee or independent contractor: legal and contractual considerations -- The law, the courts, and the advanced practice nurse -- Malpractice insurance -- Ethics and the advanced practice nurse -- Measuring advanced practice nurse performance: outcome indicators, models of evaluation, and the issue of value.