Fast Facts for the New Nurse Practitioner: What You Really Need to Know in a Nutshell

by Nadine Aktan PhD, APN-BC

Overview

This book is a Fast Facts for students considering the NP track, NP students, and new NPs - a quick all-in-one read that features what you "really need to know"about NP education and practice. It incorporates humor and real-life examples, useful tips, comparative salary tables, and other ready to access resources, such as professional organizations, networks, associations, and websites. Included is discussion on the history of the nurse practitioner (NP) role and the coming practice degree, the DNP. It contains insight coming directly from experts in the field.

Key Features

• The "all-in-one," fast facts for potential or current NP students and newly practicing NPs
• Explores reasons to become a nurse practitioner
• Clarifies NP education hurdles: from choosing the right program to selecting the best clinical preceptor, and more
• Offers suggestions on how to survive the first year of practice
• Discuses contractual relationships with institutions, doctors and related health providers
• Outlines legal/malpractice issues
• Explores the DNP degree as the coming mandate for NP practice
• Features personal stories from the author and colleagues in a straight-from-the-shoulder style
• Includes check lists to facilitate important decision making, and charts/tables with "hot topics" or key elements

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826105929
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/17/2010
Series:	Fast Facts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	771 KB

About the Author

Nadine M. Aktan, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, received her bachelor’s degree in nursing, master’s degree in nursing, and doctoral degree in nursing from Rutgers University College of Nursing and Graduate School in New Brunswick and Newark, NJ. She is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, teaching future nurses and nurse practitioners. She also practices as a Family Nurse Practitioner at The Immedicenter, an urgent care/family practice in Clifton, Bloomfield, and Totowa, NJ, as well as at Eva’s Village Medical Clinic in Paterson, NJ, one of five in the state to provide free medical care to the indigent.

Table of Contents

"Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I Making the Decision

1 Why Become a Nurse Practitioner?
2 How to Begin

Part II Selecting an Educational Program

3 Types of Programs
4 Scholarships, Resources, and More!

Part III Finding the Right Clinical Preceptor

5 Important Things to Consider
6 Balancing It All!

Part IV Searching for a Mentor

7 What to Look for
8 You as a Mentor!

Part V Attaining Your Certification and Licensure

9 Who? What? Where?
10 Passing!
11 What Comes Next?

Part VI Surviving and Thriving: Your First Year in Practice

12 First Job
13 Role Transition
14 Friends and Enemies

Part VII Administrative Issues

15 Bureaucracy
16 Discrimination
17 Institutional Violence

Part VIII Understanding Legal Issues

18 Contracts
19 Malpractice
20 Avoiding Lawsuits

Part IX Ensuring Collaborative Practice

21 The Collaborative Agreement
22 Selecting a Collaborative Physician

Part X You're in Charge

23 Prescriptive Authority
24 Diagnostics
25 Referrals

Part XI Economics and Policy

26 The Nurse Practitioner and Our National Healthcare System

Part XII Into the Future

27 The Doctor of Nursing Practice

Index "