Week 1: Begins 2/25/21
Due 2/27/21
Read Chapters 1, 2, and 5 in Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the
Profession.
Read Chapter 2 in Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of HealthCar
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Week 1: Begins 2/25/21
Due 2/27/21
Read Chapters 1, 2, and 5 in Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the
Profession.
Read Chapter 2 in Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of HealthCare.
Discussion 1 Q: 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 healthcare system changes?
Advanced registered nurses play a pivotal role in the American healthcare system, as America
enters yet another phase of Healthcare reform advanced nurses who have already experienced
an exponential amount of transition through the 20th and 21st century will continue to experience
an incredible amount of transition.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that our care delivery systems are fractured and lack an
effective, coordinated response to population health crises. Effectively addressing these gaps, both
during the immediate crisis and in the long-lasting aftermath, will require the close engagement and
leadership of the nursing community. (Nikpour et al.)
The year 2020 has shown us a lot of different things when it comes to health care, it has shown
us more than ever that not only nurses in general but advanced registered nurses are in very
short supply and the demand for nurses is skyrocketing. We not only have a shortage of active
nurses willing to work but we have a shortage of nursing instructors who are available to train
incoming nurses to keep the nursing workforce strong. The nursing faculty shortage contributes
to the problem of nursing programs turning away qualified applicants across graduate and
under-graduate programs. (DeNisco, Chapter 1 pg. 010)
With the pandemic of 2020 I personally have seen that nurses are truly front line workers, and
oftentimes nurses were the “sacrificial lambs'' of medicine, when doctors were using
telemedicine for infected covid patients the emphasis of patient care was placed more on the
shoulders of the nurse. Nurses and advanced registered nurses were selflessly the first people
to suit up in PPE and jump in to care for covid positive patients, when everyone else was
scared. Another thing we have learned is that
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