Purpose 

The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student with an opportunity to explore the nurse practitioner (NP) practice requirements in his/her state of practice, NP competencies and leadership skills to develop a plan to support professional development. 

Due Date:  

Assignment should be submitted to the Week 4 Roles in APN Professional Development Plan dropbox by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MST at the end of Week 4.  

When the assignment is placed in the dropbox, it will automatically be submitted to Turnitin. You may submit the assignment one additional time before the due date to lower the Turnitin score. If you choose to resubmit, the second submission will be considered final and subject to grading.  Once the due date for the assignment passes, you may not resubmit to lower a Turnitin score. 

Requirements: 

  1. The  NR500NP Wk4  APN Professional Development Plan paper is worth 200 points and will be graded on the quality of the content, use of citations, use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria/rubric. 
  2. Submit the paper as a Microsoft Word Document, which is the required format at Chamberlain University. You are encouraged to use the APA Academic Writer and Grammarly tools when creating your assignment. 
  3. Follow the directions below and the grading criteria located in the rubric closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum or emailed to your faculty. 
  4. The length of the paper should be 5-8 pages, excluding title page and reference page(s). 
  5. Support ideas with a minimum of 3 scholarly resources. Scholarly resources do not include your textbook. You may need to use more than 3 scholarly resources to fully support your ideas. 
  6. You may use first person voice when discussing information specific to your personal practice or skills.  
  7. Current edition APA format is required with both a title page and reference page(s). Use the following as Level 1 headings to denote the sections of your paper (Level 1 headings use upper- and lower-case letters and are bold and centered): 
    1. APN Professional Development Plan (This is the paper introduction. In APA format, a restatement of the paper title, centered and not bold serves as the heading of the introduction section) 
    1. APN Scope of Practice 
    1. Nurse Practitioner (NONPF) Core Competencies  
    1. Leadership Skills 
    1. Conclusion 

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APN Professional Development Plan

Introduction

The responsibilities of nurses in the healthcare setting have changed over the past many years with the increasing population in need of healthcare services. As such, nurses have had to get more responsibilities to help in the enhancement of the quality of healthcare services. With the increasing roles of nurses, there has been a rise in the need for the nurse to be competent. As such, there has been a list of NP competencies that are a prerequisite for an individual as a nurse. Furthermore, nurses are supposed to act as leaders in their health settings to allow for the provision of satisfactory care for patients. As such, NP is required to have various leadership skills. In this paper, a discussion on the APN development plan is provided. 

APN Scope of Practice 

After graduation, the intended state of practice in Florida. In this state, the NP is allowed to practice autonomously in the primary care setting. Thus, nurse practitioners will be found working in family medicine and general pediatric settings. In this case, they are expected to work as primary care providers. Gagnon, Gurel, and Barber (2017) depict that NP is recognized in the state of Florida as the primary care providers. 

This implies that they are licensed healthcare providers under chapter 48 and chapter 49. As such, they are expected to help in the provision of healthcare services to patients that do not need to make a referral of the patient. Such healthcare services include the provision of healthcare services for family and the internal medicine services in general. Along these lines, the NP in the state can exercise their learned knowledge to an extent but not in all healthcare settings and hence their scope of practice is limited….

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