Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections:
Review the history of the advanced nursing practice role and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
- Describe factors that supported the development of the advanced nursing practice role.
- Analyze barriers to advanced nursing practice.
- Examine either the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials or role-specific competencies related to your advanced practice role. Identify the selected competencies. Discuss one domain or competency area in which you excel and one in which you have growth opportunities.
- Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
- Respond to at least one peer.
- Respond to a second peer post.
- Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
- Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
- Reference in APA format."