Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice - Softcover

"""This outstanding and thought provoking book...provides the knowledge to not only understand the issues and role related challenges of doctoral advanced nursing practice but the inspiration to embrace the role and become a transformer of healthcare...the use of reflective responses throughout the chapters by national DNP scholars, practitioners, and experts is a gift to the field."""

--from the foreword byBernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor
Arizona State University College of Nursing & Health Innovation

Functioning as both a graduate and professional textbook, "Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice" explores the historical and evolving role of the new doctoral advanced practice registered nurse.

This innovative text presents a distinctive two-part chapter organization that provides content followed by one or more "Reflective Responses," which consist of commentaries that may counter or support the opinions of each chapter author. Written by well-known DNP leaders representing the diverse roles and experience of academics, administrators, and practitioners from different DNP programs, these "Reflective Responses" initiate thought-provoking classroom discussion. This stimulating and provocative text presents issues germane to DNP education, core competencies, and unfolding role development. It is an essential resource in DNP role development courses and courses covering contemporary DNP degree issues. Key Features:

Provides background information on the evolution of the DNP degree, essential content on role theory, and what nursing ""roles"" are and how they are evolving Discusses how master's versus doctoral-level advanced nursing practice roles differ Focuses on the basic roles of the DNP graduate that currently predominate: practitioner, clinical executive, educator, clinical scientist, and the role of the clinical scholar Highlights how the DNP can use his or her new competencies to function at a higher level Covers the diverse skills that comprise the doctoral APRN and doctoral APN role, including leadership content, negotiation skills, leveraging technology to support doctoral advanced level practice, and more "

Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and professor, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An early driver and adopter of innovation, she has developed many innovative academic programs; incorporated the cooperative education model; envisioned and implemented the use of online courses and standardized patients, simulation, and various technologies in the nursing and undergraduate health profession curricula. She advanced online pedagogy, developing one of the largest online nursing programs in the country, utilizing asynchronous and synchronous creative teaching strategies. She recently developed the first dual undergraduate-degree program in nursing and biomedical engineering in the nation at Duquesne University. She was honored with the Villanova University College of Nursing Alumni Medallion for Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Education. She was the former associate editor for Oncology Nursing Forum, where she was responsible for the leadership and professional development feature. She was a trustee of Princeton HealthCare System and was selected as a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow. She has more than 70 publications, 135 national and international presentations, and recently coauthored two books: Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice (2011, first edition), the recipient of the 2011 American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Award, and Legal Issues Confronting Today's Nursing Faculty: A Case Study Approach (2012), the recipient of the 2012 AJN Book-of-the-Year Award. Her research interests include safety and interprofessional simulation and leadership development in nursing, for which she secured $2 million in funding. She was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.