Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer
Advanced registered nurses work in highly collaborative environments and must collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in order to provide excellent patient care. Besides knowing the role and scope of one\’s own practice, it is essential to understand the role and scope of other nurse specialties to ensure effective collaboration among nurses, the organization, and other professionals with whom advanced registered nurses regularly interact. Use the \”Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer Template\” to differentiate how advanced registered nurse roles relate to and collaborate with different areas of nursing practice. Compare your future role with one of the following: nurse educator; nurse leader; family nurse practitioner; acute care nurse practitioner; graduate nurse with an emphasis/specialty in public health, health care administration, business, or informatics; clinical nurse specialist; doctor of nursing practice. Indicate in the appropriate columns on the template which roles you are comparing. Future role-Nurse Leader, any other APRN role can be compared Make sure to compare the following areas of practice in your graphic organizer: Ethics Education Leadership Public Health Health Care Administration Informatics Business/Finance Specialty (e.g., Family, Acute Care) Include any regulatory bodies or certification agencies that provide guidance or parameters on how these roles incorporate concepts into practice. You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content. While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer
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Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer
| Acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) | Nursing informaticist (NI) | Observations (Similarities/Differences) | |
| Ethics | Ethical concern is to address the behavioral concerns in respect to patient autonomy, to include decisions about end of life, verbal abuse, and poor communication (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Ethical concern is to protect the rights of patients with regards to managing information with a focus on protecting the right to privacy and meeting confidentiality expectations (Bauer, 2017). | There ethical concerns are on patients, but ACNP focus on respectful contact with patients while NI focus on patient information management. |
| Education | Requires at least a diploma or an associate’s degree in nursing, and supervised clinical experience (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Requires at least a bachelor’s degree in nursing (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017).Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer | ACNP has lower education requirements while NI have higher education requirements. |
| Leadership | Complete administrative tasks while delivering critical care (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Foster health information management changes to include design, development and use (Bauer, 2017). | ACNP is concerned with administrative tasks and critical care while NI is concerned with information management. |
| Public Health | Evaluate and manage critical care patients, and manage resources (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Analyze administrative and clinical performance, and organize and process data (Wicker & Browning, 2020). | ACNP delivery care while NI extract value from health data. |
| Health Care Administration | Evaluate and manage patients to deliver clinical nursing and patient care (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Leverage health information technology to make sense of data (Wicker & Browning, 2020). | ACNP act on data while NI deliver data. |
| Informatics | Generating raw data and applying data analysis results (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Manage and process data by making meaning from the collected raw data (Bauer, 2017). | NI makes sense of data collected by ACNP. |
| Business/Finance | Use clinical experience to manage financial and business aspects of critical care (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Use data to assist in business and financial decision-making (Bauer, 2017). | ACNP and NI are involved in making financial and business decisions. |
| Specialty (e.g., Family, Acute Care) | No specialty as they work with all patient demographics in critical and emergency care (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | No specialty as they focus on data management (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017).Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer | ACNP and NI have no specialties. |
| Regulatory Bodies or Certification Agencies That Provide Guidance or Parameters on How These Roles Incorporate Concepts Into Practice | Regulated by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Certification Corporation that awards the ACNPC-AG certification to indicate professional competence (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Regulated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Informatics Nursing Board that administers competency-based certification examination that leads to credentialing as Registered Nurse-Board Certified (RN-BC) (Fitzpatrick, Ea & Bai, 2017). | Both have unique regulatory bodies and certification agencies that are focused on ensuring competent practice in these fields. |
References
Bauer, J. (2017). Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in Changing Times (2nd ed.). CRC Press.
Fitzpatrick, J., Ea, E. & Bai, L. (2017). 301 careers in nursing. Springer Publishing Company.
Wicker, Z. & Browning, B. (2020). Visualizing Health Care Statistics: A Data Mining Approach (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer