Advanced Nurse Practice Roles Academic Essay

Your paper is to be based on current literature, standards of practice, core competencies, and certification bodies for your chosen role. Criteria:
• Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing:
o Compare and contrast the roles of the NP, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice, primary care, education, administration, and research.
• Selected Advanced Practice Role (Nurse Practitioner):
o Examine regulatory and legal requirements for North Carolina in which you plan to practice.
o Describe the professional organizations available for membership based on a Nurse Practitioner.
o Identify required competencies, including certification requirements for your Nurse Practitioner.
o Predict the organization and setting, population, and colleagues with whom you plan to work. (Setting: Hospital – Emergency Room, Population: Adult, Colleagues: MD, DO, PA & NP)
• Leadership Attributes of the Advanced Practice Role:
o Determine your leadership style (https://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm). (Democratic Leadership Style) (I will upload a paper on the democratic leadership style I submitted).
o Identify leadership attributes you currently possess, and attributes you may need to develop.
o Determine how to attain and evaluate those missing attributes.
• Health Policy and the Advanced Practice Role
• Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/features-and-articles/health-policy.html) and identify a health policy issue. Conduct a review of literature and address the following:
o Describe the current policy and what needs to change; justify your conclusions with citations from the literature.
o Provide the process required to make the change with key players and parties of interest.
o Explain how you could lead the effort to make or influence the change in policy.
o Predict the effect on healthcare quality if the change in policy is implemented.