The Guide serves as a valuable resource for orienting nurses new to ambulatory care as well as developing comprehensive competency assessment programs. A wide selection of age specific and specialty care topics are covered, including telehealth. The 2nd Edition contains many enhancements: 1) updated content from the previous book with definitions, key tips, and examples; 2) chapters on nurse educator competencies, defining the educator's role in ambulatory care and providing guidance and tools for use in developing needed competency; 3) a tool kit for transitioning to ambulatory care with many helpful links and resources; and 4) an appendix containing sample orientation and competency tools that will help you develop your own tools.
The Guide serves as a valuable resource for orienting nurses new to ambulatory care as well as developing comprehensive competency assessment programs. A wide selection of age specific and specialty care topics are covered, including telehealth. The Guide contains many enhancements: 1) updated content from the previous book with definitions, Key Tips, and examples; 2) chapters on nurse educator competencies, defining the educator's role in ambulatory care and providing guidance and tools for use in developing needed competency; 3) a tool kit for transitioning to ambulatory care with many helpful links and resources; and 4) an appendix containing sample orientation and competency tools that will help you develop your own tools.
The NEW Guide to Ambulatory Care Nursing Orientation & Competency Assessment will help you develop a customized orientation process for new employees based on specific competencies. There is no more guess work! Select the competencies you need to match with a staff member's duties. Fundamental competencies are defined, so staff members know what is expected regarding professional performance. These competencies are based on ambulatory care practice standards and incorporate the three roles of ambulatory care nursing practice; Organizational/Systems, Clinical Nurse, and Professional Nurse.
It is time to move your competency assessment process beyond meeting regulatory standards to creating excellence The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Health Care is packed with ready-to-use tools designed to help you develop, implement and evaluate competencies. More than that, you will find a new way of thinking about competency assessment - a way that is outcome-focused and accountability-based. With over 20,000 copies sold world-wide, it is the most trusted resource on competency assessment available.
The Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Care Nursing (3rd Edition) has been organized and expanded to address the educational needs of nurses new to the specialty and those with experience, as well as to provide a review for those who seek specialty certification as an ambulatory care nurse.
The Ambulatory Care Nursing Review Questions, 5th edition, published by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN). This set of practice test items is designed to assist ambulatory care nurses in assessing their knowledge of the practice of ambulatory care nursing. Professional nurses should take every opportunity to advance their expertise, skills, and knowledge, and use tools such as this publication to assess their knowledge gaps and learn from studying the answers.All review questions, answers, and their associated page numbers (found in the back of the booklet) are based on the Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Care Nursing, 4th edition (Laughlin & Witwer, 2019), a AAACN publication. Using the Core Curriculum as the companion to this set of review questions is highly recommended.This edition of the Review Questions has been updated to reflect the latest content outline of the Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification Exam of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) published in 2017. The 180 multiple-choice items follow the same format as the questions on the ANCC Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification Exam. The multiple-choice items are grouped into five domains of practice corresponding to those on the examination. The content in each of the domains and the percentage of questions are drawn directly from the test content outline as published by ANCC at the time of this writing.
Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that fact but only get in the way and decrease quality of life. Unfortunately, Medicare's payment structure and rules deprive the elderly of the chance to pursue less aggressive care, which often yields the most humane and effective results. Medicare encourages and will pay more readily for hospitalization than for palliative and home care. It encourages and pays for high-tech assaults on disease rather than for the primary care that can make a real difference in the lives of the elderly. Lazris offers straightforward solutions to ensure Medicare’s solvency through sensible cost-effective plans that do not restrict patient choice or negate the doctor-patient relationship. Using both data and personal stories, he shows how Medicare needs to change in structure and purpose as the population ages, the physician pool becomes more specialized, and new medical technology becomes available. Curing Medicare demonstrates which medical interventions (medicines, tests, procedures) work and which can be harmful in many common conditions in the elderly; the harms and benefits of hospitalization; the current culture of long-term care; and how Medicare often promotes care that is ineffective, expensive, and contrary to what many elderly patients and their families really want.
