Teaching Exceptional Children: Foundations and Best Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classrooms

by Bayat; Mojdeh

• ISBN13: 9780803660441
• ISBN10: 0803660448
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The 4th Edition of an AJN Book of the Year Award Winner!

Survive and thrive as an APN!                                                             

Meet all the challenges of professional practice—whatever your specialty or environment. Noted nursing professionals and educators explore all of the non-clinical roles and responsibilities of an APN and chart a course that will enable you to meet them successfully. You’ll follow the evolution of the APN’s role from a historical perspective to the present and examine the issues and challenges you’ll encounter in the future.

An access code inside new printed texts unlocks your Davis Digital eBook, your complete book online with searching, highlighting and bookmarking functionality as well as bonus chapters, selected bibliographies, and links to online resources.

Table of Contents

I. The Evolution of Advanced Practice
1. Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and Rebels (Lynne M. Dunphy)
2. Emerging Roles of the Advanced Practice Nurse (Deborah Becker & Caroline Doherty)
3. Role Development: A Theoretical Perspective (Lucille A. Joel)
4. Educational Preparation of Advanced Practice Nurses: Looking to the Future (Phyllis Shanley Hansell)
5. Global Perspectives on Advanced Nursing Practice by (Madrean Schober & Anna Green)

II. The Practice Environment
6. Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority (Jan Towers)
7. Credentialing and Clinical Privileges for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Ann Carey & Mary Smolenski)
8. The Kaleidoscope of Collaborative Practice (Alice F. Kuehn)
9. Participation of the Advanced Practice Nurse in Health Plans and Quality Initiatives (Rita Munley Gallagher)
10. Public Policy and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Marie Eileen Onieal)
11. Resource Management (Eileen D. Flaherty, Antigone Grasso, & Cindy Aiena)
12. Mediated Roles: Working With and Through Other People by (Thomas D. Smith, Maria L. Vezina, Mary E. Samost, & Kelly Reilly)

III. Competency in Advanced Practice
13. Evidence-Based Practice (Deborah C. Messecar & Christine A. Tanner)
14. Advocacy and the Advanced Practice Nurse (Andrea Brassard)
15. Case Management and Advanced Practice Nursing (Denise Fessler & Irene McEachen)
16. The Advanced Practice Nurse and Research (Beth Quatrara and Dale Shaw)
17. The Advanced Practice Nurse: Holism and Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches (Carole Ann Drick)
18. Basic Skills for Teaching and the Advanced Practice Nurse (Valerie Sabol, Benjamin A. Smallheer, & Marilyn H. Oermann)
19. Culture as a Variable in Practice (Mary Masterson Germain)
20. Conflict Resolution in Advanced Practice Nursing (David M. Price & Patricia Murphy)
21. Leadership for APNs: If Not Now, When? (Edna Cadmus)
22. Information Technology and the Advanced Practice Nurse by (Robert Scoloveno)
23. Writing for Publication (Shirley Smoyak)

IV. Ethical, Legal and Business Acumen
24. Measuring Advanced Practice Nurse Performance: Outcome Indicators, Models of Evaluation and the Issue of Value (Shirley Girouard, Patricia DiFusco, and Joseph Jennas)
25. Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Accomplishments, Trends, and Future Development (Jane M. Flanagan, Allyssa Harris, & Dorothy A. Jones)
26. Starting a Practice and Practice Management (Judith Barberio)
27. The Advanced Practice Nurse as Employee or Independent Contractor: Legal and Contractual Considerations (Kathleen M. Gialanella)
28. The Law, The Courts, and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (David M. Keepnews)
29. Malpractice and the Advanced Practice Nurse (Carolyn T. Torres)
30. Ethics and the Advanced Practice Nurse (Gladys L. Husted, James H. Husted, & Carrie Scotto)