Advanced Practice Nursing - A Concept Analysis

NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Job options based on the education level
Nursing profession is one of the lucrative careers in United States. Some of the job roles
have impressive salary, high demand and work settings, if one is searching for a career in
nursing. One of the job option is certified dialysis nurse, whose main role is to assist patients,
who have kidney problems. Another lucrative job role is a legal nurse consultant. However, in
order to become a certified legal nurse consultant, it is necessary to obtain a registered nurse
license. A certified legal nurse consultant uses their expertise in order to consult them in case of
medical lawsuits. Another profession is a nurse midwife. A nurse midwife delivers babies, as
well as providing health care before, during and after the birth. A nurse anesthetist should gain
two years of experience as a BSN before enrolling as an MSN in a nursing anesthesia program.
Some of other to opportunities are nurse case manager, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, a
nurse researcher, informatics nurse, pediatric nurse, travel nurse, nurse administrator and critical
care nurse.
Goals for the professional education
My goal is to provide an excellent patient centered care for the patients. The second goal
would be to increase the technological knowledge and to incorporate them in to nursing care.
Additionally, I want to focus on continuing education by undertaking a Master degree in nursing.
I intend to complete the Masters of Science degree in nursing for creating working
opportunities for the registered nurses and those who have never have worked in the health care
at all. An MSN program might take up to two years to complete. I will do the Master degree in
nursing in the specialized field of a clinical nurse specialist. The rationale of this goal is that this

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job role is bestowed with some of the major responsibilities like clinical practice, consultation
and management. The health care normally does not the work with only one set of guidelines and
hence the job of a clinical nurse specialist is important for the managed care movement (Collins,
2013). They also play an important role in patient advocacy and its their job to coordinate the
money saving services and the resource yet provide the optimal level of health outcomes.
Increasing the level in education and the effect on the competitiveness in the job market
and their role in future of nursing
As per the future of nursing, the current changes of the health care system calls for a
transformation in the nursing education. The nurses should be appropriately the trained to meet
the care needs of the patients. It has been suggested by reports that working collaboratively and
effectively as partners with health care professionals is a complex and changing system. The
nurses needs to achieve high level of education at the time of entry in to the profession and
throughout the career (Drennan, 2012). Significant growth has been observed in nursing
programs. The number of the baccalaureates, the nursing programs, the enrollees and the
graduates have increased a lot in the past few decades. With the increasing number of
consumers, the specialized need of the consumers have also increased. Nurses who have
specialization in a specific niche have the opportunity to become experts in their field and
influences practice, education and the health care outcomes. Advanced learning in nursing can
permit the nurses to find themselves in a position to give major changes in the health care
system. In order to explore the areas of specialization like mental health, oncology and neonatal
word, it is necessary that the nurses have obtained specialized degree in the respective sectors
(Dowling, Beauchesne, Farrelly & Murphy, 2013). Each of the specialization is a leadership
designation, hence the nurses often have to adopt advance learning courses for increasing the