Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

The advanced practice nursing role has many specialties that focus on direct and indirect care. This paper will compare the roles of the nurse practitioner, nurse educator, nurse informaticist, nurse administrator as well as explore the roles of the advanced practicing nurse in in primary care, education, administration, clinical practice, and research. The future role of the author is an adult nurse practitioner (ANP) and this paper will examine the regulations and requirements needed to practice in the state of Florida. This paper will discuss the future role of the author as an ANP in an organizational setting as well as the importance of becoming a member of a professional organization for nurse practitioners.

The ANP is a direct care provider and must follow the core competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The core competencies of the ANP begins with ensuring that the practitioner promotes health, ensures health protection, as well as treating and preventing disease (AACN, 2012). The ANP in clinical practice and primary care must be competent in assessing, evaluating, prioritizing, as well as demonstrate knowledge through the lifespan of the aging adult (AACN, 2012). The role of the ANP must also be able to do pharmacological assessments and develop differential diagnoses as well as treat patients by implementing a proper plan of care (AACN, 2012). The Consensus Model for APRN Regulation states that the APRN must be certified, educated, and licensed to practice in a role and a population (AACN, 2012). The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) published competencies that are required by all NPs in educational programs that focus on the growth of students as independent, licensed practitioners with an objective of obtaining independent and interprofessional practice which is essential for all NPs (Distler, 2015). Nurse practitioners are also required to be competent in retrieving, assessing, evaluating, and applying research in the clinical decision-making process

The roles of each APN uniquely contribute to healthcare in a special way. Nurses in every specialty are directly involved with technologies and information systems as the basis for clinical-decision support tools, evidence-based practice, and the electronic health record. The nurse informaticist specialty has emerged over the past 20 years to assist all nurses in this changing environment (Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform, 2009). The core competencies of the nurse informaticist are basic computer competencies, information literacy and information management which has become a standard in educational programs that offer nursing informatics. South University nursing informatics degree program prepares graduate nurses in implementing and evaluating operational data systems as well as collect and evaluate data for patient information that is used for improvements in clinical care ("Online MSN, Specialization in Nursing Informatics | South University,"