Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration

Maria Lofgren, Christine Gust, Douglas Van Daele

• Publisher: Sigma Theta Tau International
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781646480968
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Advanced practice providers (APPs) are a quickly growing part of the healthcare workforce, helping to bridge the gap between the demand for physicians and nurses and keeping healthcare costs lower while maintaining a high quality of care. As hospitals, clinics, and healthcare organizations integrate APRNs and PAs into their clinical operations, healthcare leaders need direction on operationalizing these APPs into practice. Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration provides a blueprint for organizations—academic, hospital, and clinic-based —as well as academic programs teaching APRNS and PAs to assimilate the uniqueness of the APP group into existing infrastructures, effectively using resources within organizations to help advance healthcare toward higher quality care, patient safety goals, and team care initiatives.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Back Cover
• Endorsements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Additional Book Resources
• About the Authors
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Comparison of Medicine and Nursing Infrastructures and the Growing APP Workforce
• Chapter 2: Understanding the Organizational Blueprint
• Chapter 3: Establishing an Infrastructure
• Chapter 4: APRN and PA Scope of Practice
• Chapter 5: Establishing an APP Workforce
• Chapter 6: APP Onboarding
• Chapter 7: Operationalizing Telehealth
• Chapter 8: APRN and PA Students
• Chapter 9: APP Business Pro Forma
• Chapter 10: Credentialing and Privileging
• Chapter 11: Organizational Compliance
• Chapter 12: Professional Development
• Chapter 13: Mentoring
• Chapter 14: Metrics That Matter
• Chapter 15: Team-Based Care
• Chapter 16: Patient Access Center
• Chapter 17: Organizational Initiatives
• Chapter 18: Looking to the Future
• Appendix A: APP License and Board Certification Requirements
• Appendix B: Preparing for Your New APP
• Appendix C: Inpatient Scheduling Guidelines
• Appendix D: Ambulatory Sample Schedules
• Appendix E: Guide to Best Practices for Clinical Onboarding
• Appendix F: Glossary
• Appendix G: Advanced Practice Provider Resources
• Appendix H: Case Study: Developing an APP Onboarding Program
• Appendix I: Academic Clinical Partnership Case Study
• Appendix J: APP Clinical Operating Guide: Best Practice Tracks and Measures
• Appendix K: Business Pro Forma
• Appendix L: Competency-Based Professional Practice Evaluation
• Appendix M: Advanced Practice Provider Peer Chart Review
• Appendix N: Advanced Practice Providers Iowa Statewide Universal Practitioner Credentialing Application (ISUPA) Guide
• Appendix O: Advanced Practice Providers Billing Packet Guide
• Appendix P: Peer Evaluation Questionnaire
• Appendix Q: Request for Modification of Privileges
• Appendix R: Sample Emails for Peer Mentoring Program
• Appendix S: Mentoring Program Guide
• Appendix T: Job and Family Career Ladder
• Appendix U: PAC Lead/Coordinator Comparison
• Appendix V: Sample Quality Scoring Matrix
• Appendix W: Acceptable Phrases
• Appendix X: Difficult Callers & De-Escalation Process
• Appendix Y: Additional Call Scripts
• Appendix Z: Best Practices Outbound Call Management
• Index