Role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) in Healthcare

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APRN stands for Advanced Practiced Registered Nurse. An Advanced Practice
Registered Nurse possesses advanced specialised clinical knowledge as well as skills for
providing healthcare services to the diverse population. The role of the APRN im proves the
access to the quality service and cost effective healthcare service. This allows the APRNs to
progress their career by choosing more focused nursing practice with higher degree of
autonomy. The APRN Consensus Model relates to the fact that there are four roles of these
advanced practice registered nurse (Neuss et al., 2016). These include certified nurse midwife
or CNM, certified registered nurse anaesthetics or CRNA, nurse practitioner or NP and
clinical nurse specialist or CNS.
The advanced practice nurses can assess, diagnose, manage the health problems of the
patients, order tests and can proscribe medicines. The advanced practice nurses can help
driving practice changes throughout their organisation. This can ensure that the nurses can
use best practices as well as evidence based care for achieving the best possible outcome. For
the wellbeing of the society more number of advanced practice registered nurses are needed
so that the care and treatment of the patience in the hospitals or other treatment institutes
become intense and effective.
The main characteristics of the advanced practice registered nurse are responsiveness
of the patients, compassion, positivity and communication (Christmals & Gross, 2017).
Responsiveness: critical measures of versus effectiveness is how will her patients
come around. The patients who stay healthy can reflect well on the practitioners. The
registered nurses are aware of how the families of the patients can react on the treatment
therefore are able to manage the situation (Daly, Speedy & Jackson, 2017). The
responsiveness of APRN open leads the quick recovery of the patients. By maintaining a