Common Assignments: Writing in Nursing

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NURSING ASSIGNMENT
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Answer 1
The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) has four critical roles that include
the Certified Registered Nurses Anesthetist (CRNA), Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM),
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP). These roles allow
APN to gain practical experience and give authority to make decisions related to the care of
patients. In case of licensing, accreditation, certification and education, these are regulated by
the State (Wholihan & Tilley, 2016). The states have control of the scope of practice, the
requirement of certification, authority, collaboration with licensed practitioners and
maintenance of the standard of practice. According to all the states, it is required that an
APRN to have a license in the respective stated that can be obtained by completing the
specified requirements such as a degree from an accredited school, background check and
approval of board certification. In California, there is a requirement that the applicants need
to have a current registered nurse license for the state prior to application of APRN license
that involves successful of completing the advanced nursing practice, masters of nursing
degree from an accredited nursing school that is recognized by the state of California (Gavaza
et al., 2017). With respect to Washington, The Nursing Quality Care Assurance Commission
is the regulatory body that is responsible for the management of Washington’s stated
advanced registered Nurse practitioners. As per the board license category of APRN, there
are critical roles of advanced nursing (Doh.wa.gov, 2020). These include CNM, CRNA and
Nurse Practitioner. Among these, Nurse Practitioner is considered as the most critical among
these and CNS are not stated to be licensed in the specified state. Moreover, the state does not
belong to the Nurse license compact. In the case of Illinois, the nurses need to be licensed by
the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDPR), which recognize the
four roles of APRN. According to the National Council for State Boards of Nursing has listed
it, as a state with pending nurse compact legislature and thus, a nurse needs to hold an initial

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RN licensure in the particular state (Nursinglicensure.org, 2020). The APRN need to earn a
graduate or post-master certification in order to practice in the state and he or she needs to
complete a program that provided a preparation of the advanced practice certification known
as Nurse Practitioner Programs in Illinois. For certification, the nurse has to pursue an
examination-based certification on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
Answer 2
At the time of reviewing the scope of practice for Nurse Practitioners (NP), it is
important to divide it into three defining practice, namely, reduced practice limits of an NP,
Full NP Practice and Restricted practice limits of an NP (Carthon et al., 2016). It can be
stated the six steps of Evidence-based Healthcare Regulation involve the development of
systematic review that can be applied for achieving continuity between stated regulatory
boards. As stated by Parker & Hill (2017), a full practice nurse is stated to be an NP who has
a license and is allowed to diagnose, interpret the diagnostic tests, treat patients and prescribe
privileges that can be regulated by the board of nursing with the oversight of physicians. In
case of reducing the practice, NP has full authority of practice and can work in a
collaborative manner under the supervision of a clinician. The restricted practice is liable for
limiting an NP in a number of full practices because it requires some degree of supervision.
The strategies that can be used for achieving continuity between state regulatory boards are
advanced practice education that helps in assessing and transforming the nursing profession
for meeting the needs of the changing healthcare sector. It involves the use of inter-
professional education, which is an intervention where the board members of the health and
social care professionals interact and collaborates for improving the inter-professional
collaboration (Peterson, 2017). This support others in recognizing the importance of Care vs
Cure. Therefore, it can be stated that education and training, the positive outcome of clinical
practice can be achieved. In this context, the role of NP is reported to be defined by the