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.
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
Appendices