ACNS 619: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Role in Society

This paper examines the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in society, focusing on their responsibilities, characteristics, and the philosophical models they employ. It defines APRNs and their impact on healthcare access and quality, emphasizing their ability to assess, diagnose, and manage patient health. The essay highlights key characteristics of APRNs, including responsiveness, compassion, positivity, and effective communication, and discusses how these qualities contribute to improved patient outcomes. It explores the integration of both nursing and medical models in APRN practice, explaining how APRNs balance disease-oriented care with emotional support to enhance patient well-being. References are included to support the analysis.

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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

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positive Outlook the nursing practitioners provide help to both the patients as well as their
families.
Compassion: it is expected that the nursing practitioners must be compassionate to the
patients as well as the persons associated with them. The patients often lose their self-control
and mental stability for suffering in diseases for a long time (Lee, 2016). This is the reason
why the dealing of the patients become difficult for the nursing practitioners. The experience
of physical and emotional pain therefore understood by the nursing practitioners. They
therefore show compassion and empathy towards the patience which gives a feeling of
genuine care and well-being. The patients therefore act more honest to disclose that the
nursing practitioners have provided them the most optimal care.
Positivity: as mentioned before the positivity of the nursing practitioners help the
patients to you feel motivated and come around more easily. The patients when see their
nurses to be careful and having positive Outlook keep encouraging the patients. This has
great impact on the health status of the patients. Therefore, APRNs try to maintain positive
outlook and emotional composure.
Effective communication: clear communication from the APRNs solve different
types of issues. As the Healthcare industry is difficult to be understood by the common
people therefore direct communication with a knowledgeable nurse help the patients as well
as their families to understand the complications more effectively. The APRNs translate
complicated medical jargon relating to the treatment of the patients in two easy terms which
the patient as well as the families can understand (Kim & Choi, 2015). The more the patients
understand there treatment instructions the more they improve their health.
Apparently, the APRN seems to align with the responsibilities an roles of the nursing
model where they are expected to have the knowledge of taking intensive care to the patients

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but they can also assess, diagnose, order tests and prescribe medicines, the medical model is
also followed. The nursing model focuses on the mental and emotional aspects of the patients
along with their physical needs. This could be expressed as the immediate care that leads into
the long-term effects (DiFazio & Vessey, 2014). Nursing model therefore is diagrammatic
representation of care that is constructed systematically. This assists the practitioners to
organise their thinking about what they are doing and transfer their thought process in to the
practice in order to benefit of the patients as well as their profession. On the other hand the
medical model focuses on the illustrations of Pathology, Pharmacology clinical medicine,
pathophysiology, treatment, Differential and many other Anatomical process. It is effective
for understanding the causes of ill health and uses disease oriented approach to the patients
(Giardina-Roche & Black, 2016). Now APRNs engage both these models. The practitioner’s
take disease oriented care to the patients as well as support them emotionally. This process
therefore is more effective for gaining ultimate result of treatment. By managing the mental
and physical suffering of the patients and maintaining positive outlook to sooth the families,
the APRNs play a vital role for the society.

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