By Maria Lofgren, Christine Gust, Douglas Van Daele
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

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sigma Theta Tau International; 1st edition (December 14, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646480945
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646480944