Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration

Awarded first place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Health Care Administration category

Advanced practice providers (APPs), including APRNs and PAs, are a rapidly growing part of the healthcare workforce. These highly educated providers help meet the demands for high quality, accessible healthcare. This book aims to give leaders at hospitals, clinics, academic programs, and healthcare organizations direction on integrating APPs to optimize top-of-license practice.

Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration provides a blueprint to successfully assimilate APPs within existing organizational infrastructures to achieve high quality care, patient safety goals, and team care initiatives. Administrators and educators at healthcare organizations and academic programs alike will find guidance on how best to leverage and support APPs. This book:

• Provides customizable documents and practices that can be tailored to different organizations
• Includes top-of-license practice examples that optimize APP productivity and support collaboration
• Describes organizational practices across all disciplines―including finance, HR, compliance, and credentialing
  -Discusses team-based care and models of independent practice
• Supports recruitment and professional development pipelines to meet the increasing demand for APPs

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Comparison of Medicine and Nursing Infrastructures and the Growing APP Workforce
Chapter 2: Understanding the Organizational Blueprint
Chapter 3: Establishing an Infrastructure
Chapter 4: APRN and PA Scope of Practice
Chapter 5: Establishing an APP Workforce
Chapter 6: APP Onboarding
Chapter 7: Operationalizing Telehealth
Chapter 8: APRN and PA Students
Chapter 9: APP Business Pro Forma
Chapter 10: Credentialing and Privileging
Chapter 11: Organizational Compliance
Chapter 12: Professional Development
Chapter 13: Mentoring
Chapter 14: Metrics That Matter
Chapter 15: Team-Based Care
Chapter 16: Patient Access Center
Chapter 17: Organizational Initiatives
Chapter 18: Looking to the Future
Appendices

Maria Lofgren, DNP, ARNP, NNP-BC, CPNP, FAANP, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Practice at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and the Director of Advanced Practice Providers at University of Iowa Health Care.

Christine Gust, MBA, PHR, SHRM-CP, is Human Resources Generalist at University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine, Office of Advanced Practice Providers. Her work has led to aligning HR strategies to advanced practice provider organizational objectives, policies, programs, and initiatives.

Douglas Van Daele, MD, FACS, is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and is affiliated with the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System.