Roles of Nursing Leaders and Educators in Advanced Practice Nursing

This report examines the roles of nursing leaders and educators in advanced practice nursing. It explores the pros and cons of these roles, emphasizing their impact on patient outcomes and the nursing workforce. The report highlights the importance of post-graduate education for both nursing leaders and educators, drawing parallels with advanced practice nurses. It emphasizes that while these professionals may not provide direct patient care, they significantly contribute to improved outcomes through their respective approaches. References to relevant literature support the analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of the subject. The student's perspective is included, agreeing with the importance of these roles in healthcare.

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Roles of nursing leaders and educators in advanced nursing practices
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Pros and cons of nursing leaders and educators in advanced nursing practices
The roles of nurse educators and leaders are among the most debatable subjects in the context
of advanced nursing practices.
Pros: Nurse educators prepare the nursing workforce for the varied healthcare requirements
of optimum quality of the population. Nurse leaders are not limited to an individual patient or
healthcare setting (Booth et al., 2016). They collaborate with managers and possess the
freedom to identify deficits in patient results and propose solutions.
Cons: A lack of adequate faculty members with expertise in nursing education and the
required practical capacity to function as advanced practitioners are noted. Being a relatively
new concept, the roles of nurse leaders are not appropriately defined and are generalized.
Personal opinion
Advanced practice nurses require post-graduate education in nursing and possess advanced
clinical knowledge and practical skills to practice nursing (Lamb et al., 2018). In context with
this, nursing educators and leaders also require post-graduation and learn the required
additional expertise. I agree that these professionals also meet the required roles of advanced
practice nurses as their qualifying criteria are similar with slight variations in work roles.
Nurse leaders do not provide direct individual patient care but ensure improved large-scale
outcomes. Similarly, nurse educators do not directly take care of the patient but indirectly do
so by providing quality training to future nurses.
Rationale
As discussed above, I believe that nursing leaders and educators play active roles as advanced
practice nurses. This is because both of these professionals ensure improving the outcomes of

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the patient population in their respective approaches but with the same common goal as the
other advanced nurse practices of ensuring positive patient results (Lamb et al., 2018).

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References
Booth, T. L., Emerson, C. J., Hackney, M. G., & Souter, S. (2016). Preparation of academic
nurse educators. Nurse Education in Practice, 19, 54-57.
Lamb, A., Martin‐Misener, R., Bryant‐Lukosius, D., & Latimer, M. (2018). Describing the
leadership capabilities of advanced practice nurses using a qualitative descriptive
study. Nursing open, 5(3), 400-413.