Author: Joan Stanley<br />File Type: pdf<br />Prepare your graduate students to take leadership roles in the future of Advance Practice Nursing. The author address the major issues facing Advanced Practice Nursing today from a collective perspective that begins with its historical roots and progresses to contemporary concerns and trends. This approach enables APNs to understanding the practice challenges facing them today and think about new ways of effecting changes to health policy that will ensure patients receive quality, cost-effective care, and that recognize APNs as full participants. - Features two new chapters Caring for a Diverse Population Ensuring Cultural Competancy, and Advanced Practice Nursing and Health Policy. - Highlights the ethical aspects of practice. - Offers practical business advice for negotiating salaries or starting a new practice - Provides critical thinking exercises, including performing critiques, conducting peer reviews, using analogies, drawing models to depict relationships among concepts, composing position papers and professionalpractice statements, and engaging in argument and debate.