Describe How The Role Of Advanced Registered Nurse Transformed Over Time

As a registered nurse, cultivating strong interpersonal skills is crucial to advance in the career, creating mentorship or other network opportunities.
The transition from registered nurse (RN) to advance practice nurse is a significant career role and also a stressful career transition. Besides that  these advanced practice nurse have nationally received increased attention in recent years. I am therefore willing to join formal orientations as recommended to benefit my transitional role. Orientations have been found to relieve stress and help promote a sense of confidence, competence, and satisfaction. Extensive  training will also be a structured support for me. This has been found to affect advance nurses role transition positively especially during the first year of practice. A successful transition is characterized by a subjective sense of well-being, increased confidence and competence, mastery of skills, and autonomous practice. Therefore am willing to work on all the above to advance my nursing degree to provide primary, acute, and specialty health care across the lifespan through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses and injuries.

NUR 513 Topic 1 Discussion 1

DQ Describe how the role of advanced registered nurse transformed over time

Historically, when one spoke of advanced practice nursing, they meant one of four roles; certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), certified nurse mid-wife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), or certified nurse practitioner (CNP). In 2004, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) defined advanced practice nursing as “Any form of nursing intervention that influences health care outcomes for individuals or populations, including direct care of individual patients, management of care for individuals and populations, administration of nursing and health care organizations, and the development and implementation of health policy” (Denisco & Barker, 2016). Since this definition came out many other nursing roles, such as nurse administrators and public health nurses have also been thought of as advanced practice nursing roles. Whereas advanced practice nursing used to be mainly reserved for clinical practice, it is now branching out into non-clinical roles. With the ever-expanding role of nurses coupled with the push to expand access to and decrease costs of health care there will likely be many new roles developed for nursing practice. These roles will require advanced degrees even if they are not in clinical areas, therefore, they too should be thought of as advanced practice nursing.

Emotional intelligent is important in nursing practices because it helps to understand people better (Whitney, 2018). Self-awareness is one of the important elements in emotional intelligent and it is the capacity to notice and comprehend your own feelings. Being conscious of the impact of your actions, moods, and emotions on other people goes beyond simply being aware of your own feelings. Developing self-awareness as a leader will strengthen not only individual performance but organizational performance as well. Ultimately, the immense amount of understanding, trustworthiness and wisdom that self-aware leaders possess equips them with critical skills for success.

Denisco, S.M. and Barker, A.M. (2016). Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession. Jones and Bartlett Learning. https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2016/advanced-practice-nursing_essential-knowledge-for-the-profession_3e.php