DNP Education, Practice, and Policy: Mastering the DNP Essentials for Advanced Nursing Practice

First edition named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title―5 stars!

The second edition of this distinguished text―designed for use across the entire DNP curriculum―defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared professional nurse and promotes the development of key leadership skills needed to effectively influence healthcare policy and improve outcomes. Weaving the eight AACN DNP competencies throughout, the second edition clarifies, updates, and demonstrates their application. The text incorporates updates to the AACN’s 2015 position statement, The DNP: Current Issues and Clarifying Recommendations, and the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report, and delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders.

Focusing heavily on improving aggregate care, strengthening leadership roles, and influencing health policy, the second edition continues to address APRN and nurse executive roles, health information technology, outcomes measurement, and the relationship of the DNP graduate to ongoing scholarship. The text’s challenging and thoughtprovoking content is of particular value not only to students, but also to professors who will welcome the clarity it offers to the highly complex DNP curriculum.

New to the Second Edition:

• Reflects the most current thinking about the DNP degree and clarifies recommendations from the AACN task force on implementing the DNP curriculum
• Incorporates recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing report
• Demonstrates the application of core competencies to practice and aggregate care
• Offers contemporary examples of DNP competencies and role integration
• Focuses primarily on developing key leadership skills for influencing healthcare policy and improving outcomes
• Delivers new content from nationally recognized nurse leaders

Key Features:

• Simplifies the highly complex DNP curriculum and integrates DNP core competencies
• Broadly defines practice scholarship for the DNP-prepared nurse and promotes development of key leadership skills
• Provides a versatile supplement to all courses across the DNP curriculum
• Prepares the DNP to analyze and influence health policy
• Incorporates policy statements from the ANA, AONE, NCSBN, AANP, AANA, and ACNM
• Demonstrates the integration of health policy with cross-sector collaboration to advance a “culture of health” agenda

Stephanie W. Ahmed, DNP, FNP-BC, DPNAP, is the executive director for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Linda C. Andrist, PhD, RN, WHNP, is a professor emerita at the MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing, Boston.

Sheila M. Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, is the chief of clinical operations and chief nursing officer at Partners In Health, an international nongovernmental organization working in 10 countries providing comprehensive healthcare and services for the poor globally.

Valerie J. Fuller, PhD, DNP, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP is an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner who works in the Department of Surgery at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. She is the Region 1 Director to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Board Chair and APRN member of the Maine State Board of Nursing, and Past President of the Maine Nurse Practitioner Association. She is actively involved in APRN education, practice, and policy issues at local, state and national levels. Her clinical and research interests include vascular surgery, wound care, and delirium.