Zaccagnini & White's Core Competencies for Advanced Practice Nursing: A Guide for DNPs
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Title Details
5th Ed.
Copyright © 2025 by Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, an Ascend Learning Company
Diane Schadewald, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC, FNP-BC, CNE
ISBN-13: 978-1-284-28839-1
eISBN-13: 978-1-284-29161-2
Nursing, Research
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The AACN's Essentials framework is an integral part of nursing education that outlines the competencies expected for nursing practice but can be difficult to incorporate. Zaccagnini & White's Core Competencies for Advanced Practice Nursing: A Guide for DNPs, Fifth Edition continues to be the must-have resource for students to understand what it means to be a DNP and achieve mastery of the revised AACN Essentials. The practical framework features chapters aligned to each of the Essentials and weaves in concepts, covering all the necessary DNP information, providing students and faculty with a pragmatic blueprint to follow in their DNP programs.
Authored by advanced practices nurses with DNP degrees who practice or teach in a broad range of roles, Zaccagnini & White's Core Competencies for Advanced Practice Nursing: A Guide for DNPs, Fifth Edition provides the infrastructure for students, faculty, and those practicing with a DNP degree to achieve and sustain the highest level of practice.
Features and Benefits
- • Aligns to the 10 new AACN Essentials with a clear connection to applied clinical practice
- • Supports all DNP-prepared nurses to engage in advocacy, show leadership, and demonstrate the skills of clinical competency to impact and improve patient care.
- • Outlines a step-by-step template for the development of a DNP project.
- • Case studies offer clear connections between the AACN Essentials and practice as a DNP.
Directed specifically to nurses and advanced practice nurses, this book delves into all aspects of the DNP Core Competencies for advanced practice nurses. Nurses that already have their DNP degree and those pursuing one will find all they need in this book. There are specific topics in each DNP program curriculum that the student must master. This is expressed in the DNP Project - the culmination of learning, research, and dissemination of the work. For all DNP students and anyone considering pursuing this terminal degree, this text outlines the core competencies of the DNP Project from conception to dissemination which will help DNP students to understand the reasons for each step.
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Doody's Review
"For DNP students, this book is a powerful addition for facilitating understanding of what they will be doing in their DNP program and beyond. For DNP prepared Nurse Practitioners, this book will help facilitate understanding of the role and opportunities for which they have been prepared. The DNP project takes the DNP student to a level within the healthcare system beyond most of their colleagues in their knowledge of how the patient interaction works best. Also, this book helps readers see the scope of opportunities that lie within most health systems. It is the act of improving our current health system where Nurse Practitioners on a doctoral level are best prepared. The United States has the most expensive health care system in the western world, yet it ranks at the bottom of population health outcomes among developed nations. The time has come for a paradigm shift in our healthcare delivery system. DNP doctoral prepared Nurse Practitioners are "change agents" and that is the future of our current healthcare system."
-- Chrystyne Olivieri, DNP, FNP-BC, CDCES (Sacred Heart University) Doody's Review
"This book provides a foundation and infrastructure for current and prospective DNP students to explore the degree and the role. It is also an excellent resource for faculty to use while instructing students. The practicing DNP will frequently use this resource as they develop and implement projects in their workplace. This third edition ensures the material is current in the rapidly changing healthcare field. Additionally, the authors have also provided excellent resources for educators."
-- Kathleen Woodruff, DNP, RN, ANP-BC (USC School of Social Work) Doody's Review - Previous edition
" This book serves a roadmap for students in a DNP program or considering the degree, for recent graduates with the degree, and for faculty who are crafting the programs for this advanced practice role."
-- Kathleen Woodruff, RN, MS, CRNP (Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing) Doody's Review - previous edition
"This is an excellent resource for students working toward a clinical doctorate. The information is accurate and valuable to students, faculty, and practicing DNPs. The book provides the foundation necessary for achieving the highest level of advanced practice nursing. "
-- Kathleen Woodruff, RN, MS, CRNP (Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing) Doody's Review - Previous edition
Score: 85/100
Specialty Score: 1.93 Nursing - Advanced Practice
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