Anne M. Barker

Advanced Practice Nursing:Essential Knowledge for the Profession, Third Edition is a core advanced practice text used in both Master's Level and DNP programs. The Third Edition is a unique compilation of existing chapters from a variety of high-level Jones & Bartlett Learning works creating a comprehensive and well-rounded resource for the advanced practice nursing student. Similar to the previous edition, The Third Edition features updated content around the AACN's Master's Essentials as well as the Essentials for Doctoral Education. Throughout this text the authors address the rapid changes in the health care environment with a special focus on health care finance, electronic health records, quality and safety as well as emerging roles for the advanced practice nurse. Patient care in the context of advanced nursing roles is also covered.

Nursing leadership is in crisis! Nurses are dissatisfied with their pr actice settings; with the attitudes and behaviors of nurse managers; w ith limited professional growth, advancement and achievement; with opp ressive organizational hierarchies that hinder autonomy in practice; a nd with the lack of job status and power.