Assignment: Nurse’s Role and Responsibility as Health Educator.

Assignment: Nurse’s Role and Responsibility as Health Educator.

Assignment: Nurse’s Role and Responsibility as Health Educator.

Describe the nurse’s role and responsibility as health educator. What strategies, besides the use of learning styles, can a nurse educator consider when developing tailored individual care plans, or for educational programs in health promotion? When should behavioral objectives be utilized in a care plan or health promotion?

Due Date: Tuesday 7 Book:

Read Chapter 1 inHealth Promotion: Health and Wellness Across the Continuum.

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NUR 513 Topic 1 DQ 1 

Describe how the role of advanced registered nurse transformed over time. Consider shifts in scope and expectations in the 20th and 21st centuries. In what ways will the advanced registered nurse role and responsibilities continue to evolve and emerge as the American health care system changes? 

Re: Topic 1 DQ 1
 

Historically, when one spoke of advanced practice nursing, they meant one of four roles; certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), certified nurse mid-wife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), or certified nurse practitioner (CNP). In 2004, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) defined advanced practice nursing as “Any form of nursing intervention that influences health care outcomes for individuals or populations, including direct care of individual patients, management of care for individuals and populations, administration of nursing and health care organizations, and the development and implementation of health policy” (Denisco & Barker, 2016).

Since this definition came out many other nursing roles, such as nurse administrators and public health nurses have also been thought of as advanced practice nursing roles. Whereas advanced practice nursing used to be mainly reserved for clinical practice, it is now branching out into non-clinical roles. With the ever-expanding role of nurses coupled with the push to expand access to and decrease costs of health care there will likely be many new roles developed for nursing practice. These roles will require advanced degrees even if they are not in clinical areas, therefore, they too should be thought of as advanced practice nursing. 

  Denisco, S.M. and Barker, A.M. (2016). Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession. Jones and Bartlett Learning. https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2016/advanced-practice-nursing_essential-knowledge-for-the-profession_3e.php 

 I agree with you that nursing practice is any form of nursing intervention that is meant to influence the care outcomes. The nurse practice has been evolving overtime especially with the transformation of the healthcare systems and healthcare policies. In the current healthcare industry where the focus is on the patient, what is commonly referred to as patient centered approach has ensured that the patient is given autonomy to choose on the best care practice that is appropriate and improves the patient’s health condition (American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2019). This has called upon the nurse training institutions to shift and adapt to the new and emerging trends in healthcare. The advanced nursing role has been the significant part that the Affordable Care Act aims to enhance health promotion measures among the aging US population (Woo et al., 2017). The research findings reveal that the advanced nursing role would be one of the professions at a highest demand by the year 2022. 

References 

American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (2019). Scope of Practice for Nurse Practitioners. American Association of Nurse Practitioners; AANP Website. https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/advocacy-resource/position-statements/scope-of-practice-for-nurse-practitioners 

Woo, B. F. Y., Lee, J. X. Y., & Tam, W. W. S. (2017). The impact of the advanced practice nursing role on quality of care, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost in the emergency and critical care settings: a systematic review. Human Resources for Health, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-017-0237-9 

Re: Topic 1 DQ 1 

The advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) has seemed to evolve based on shortages and demands of the population within our healthcare system. Deficits have expanded many nursing roles, leading to the need to define the nursing scope of practice and educational requirements. The traditional four roles of APRN, nurse practitioner (NP), certified nurse-midwife (CNM), certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), and clinical nurse specialist (CNS); have all grown exponentially since the 20th century (DeNisco & Baker, 2016). These four roles all seemed to have stemmed from disparities in our healthcare system, whether it be a shortage of physicians, under-severed rural areas, vulnerable populations, or times of war. A great example of this is the advancements within the CRNA field. CRNAs were initially brought about during World War I due to a physician shortage during wartimes (DeNisco & Baker, 2016).

The continuation of wars through United States history gave the CRNA field a strong foothold as a chief provider of anesthetics to the frontline. This expansion of the nursing scope of practice in anesthetics eventually led to credentialing and the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) to monitor and regulate this growing field (DeNisco & Baker, 2016). Similarly, the growth and expansion of the other original APRN roles through the end of the 20th and 21st century required the nursing field to define graduate-level educational requirements and each specialty’s nursing role. The transformation of traditional APRN roles has now begun to open doorways for other nontraditional advanced practice nursing areas like public health nursing, clinical nurse leaders, nurse administrators, nursing research, and nurse educators. 

DeNisco and Baker do a great job of laying out the ongoing evolution and need of the APRN role in the American healthcare system and the need for more advanced practice educators to sustain the APRN field’s continuous growth (2016). With a growing and aging population and a continuing shortage of physicians, the APRN roles offer a cost-effective solution that can also improve patient satisfaction (DeNisco & Baker, 2016). I will say that this week’s reading has made the decision to continue my education in nursing even more appealing and necessary.  

References 

DeNisco, S. M., & Barker, A. M. (2016). Advanced practice nursing: Essential knowledge for the profession (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13: 9781284072570 

I agree with your statement that the advanced nurse practice numbers have soared high in the 21st century compared by the 20th century. The current Covid-19 pandemic has however, proved that health and wellness is a collective responsibility (Kovac, 2020). In this context both the patient and the nurse are at risk of contracting the disease regardless of age, gender or religious underpinnings hence adequate precautionary measures should be taken. The advanced nursing role has taken up active role in preventive measures of the disease by offering the routine guidelines of hygiene the emerging trends in the spread and severity of the disease. The concept of preventive care is one of the key pillars in the patient protection and well-being.

The advanced nurse role requires the nurses to carry out educational programs, seminars and workshops that are meant to help the public on the need of maintaining our bodies for optimal health and reduced chances of hospitalization. The one situation where the advanced nurses’ practitioners have shown resilience is the tackling of the covid-19 pandemic. Countries that embraced strict, firm and taken early hard precautionary measures have known to be safer with very low reported cases in the country (Trnka et al., 2021) 

 References 

Kovac, M. (2020). The Covid-19 pandemic: collective action and European public policy under stress. Central European Journal of Public Policy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.2478/cejpp-2020-0005 

Trnka, S., Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., Holroyd, E., Jivraj, N., Laws, M., Martin-Anatias, N., Roguski, M., Simpson, N., Sterling, R., & Tunufa’i, L. (2021). Negotiating risks and responsibilities during lockdown: ethical reasoning and affective experience in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1865417 

 This week : CAT (150 WORDS) 

This week : We will discuss how the role of advanced registered nurse transformed over time, considering various shifts in scope and expectations in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will also discuss different ways that will the advanced registered nurse role and responsibilities continue to evolve and emerge as the American health care system changes. Here is a CAT ( classroom assessment technique question for you to get additional participation points). Please respond in addition to your 2 main dbqs dq1 and dq2. 

CAT #1 

Explore the 4 APRN roles 🙂 of your personal interest. 

The APRN roles which are the advanced roles include; certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), certified nurse midwife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and certified nurse practitioner CNP). The advanced nurse roles have been traditionally entailing focus on the clinical procedures, advocating for better patient care, being case managers (Hu & Forgeron, 2018). Additionally, ADP is also expected to work in consultation and collaboration with other healthcare professionals. The roles entail a wide scope of practice and ideally, the learning is meant for advancement on the already available information. However, in the current situation the healthcare industry is approaching a new era as emphasized in the affordable care act which we still don’t know what will happen. The affordable care act insists on offering medical care that built on patient centeredness and care that is preventive rather than curative (Courtemanche et al., 2018). This is meant to tackle the rising number of the elderly population that is battling serious chronic illnesses that are associated with old age  

References 

Courtemanche, C., Marton, J., Ukert, B., Yelowitz, A., & Zapata, D. (2018). Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed Health After 3 Years. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 55, 004695801879636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958018796361 

Hu, J., & Forgeron, P. (2018). Thinking, educating, acting: Developing advanced practice nursing. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 5(2), 99–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2018.04.006