This book, The DNP Professional: Translating Value from Classroom to Practice, brings together specialists with DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) preparation who serve as role models in a range of advanced practice nursing settings and responsibilities.

The content highlights the entire impact of the nursing practice doctorate, quantifies successful DNP-prepared practitioner results, and demonstrates how to use the “Essentials” of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

A different expert writes each chapter, which focuses on how the Essentials—such as data analytics, business planning, evidence-driven decision making, and interprofessional collaboration—relate to that author’s work. These professionals, who have a wealth of knowledge to impart, show how to use DNP program lessons and convert them into real-world practice across all nursing specialties.

The book has been divided into sections by editor Linda A. Benson according to roles and settings:
The following professions are included: Academia; Population Health; Informatics; Clinical Nurse Specialists; Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists; Nurse Midwives; Nurse Executives;

At their best, DNPs can influence clinical, cost, and satisfaction results in addition to offering mentorship and preceptorship. The DNP Professional: Translating Value from Classroom to Practice helps students and DNP graduates maximize the curriculum Essentials in the practice situation by providing exemplars from throughout the continuum of practice settings and roles.

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