THIS IS A PEER RESPONSE TO DISCUSSION. I NEED TO RESPOND TO THIS POST 150 WORDS AND AT LEAST ONE REFERENCE WITHIN LAST 5 YEARS. PLEASE GEAR YOUR RESPONSE THAT I TOTALLY AGREE BUT THAT ALTHOUGH CLINICAL NURSE LEADERS AND EDUCATORS DON'T PROVIDE DIRECT PATIENT CARE THEY ARE AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED APRNS AS THEY HAVE ADVANCED THEIR EDUCATION BEYOND A BACHELORS DEGREE TO A MASTER'S DEGREE AS A WAY TO SOLIDIFY EXPERTISE IN THEIR CHOSEN FIELD. Nursing in general takes on many different roles. Before an advanced practice nurse (APRN) becomes highly educated to call themselves certified providers they had to play other roles prior to advancing their career. All bedside nurses and certified nurse practitioners (CNP) has played the role of leader or educator in the field of their practice at some point of their career. I believe to become an APRN one has to fully tackle the leadership and educator role, but I also believe that being population and patient focused more so this requires additional trained advanced nursing. I feel that the role of nurse leader and educator cross paths with the four distinct roles of certified nurse specialist (CNS), certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), certified nurse midwife (CNM) and certified nurse practitioner (CNP). Ncbi (2019) defines leadership as managing a team/organization but also as a set of personal skills or traits focusing on relationships between leader and follower. Ncbi (2019) states nurses should be adequately equipped for this role based on internationally defined leadership competencies. When reading this article the APN and certified nurse leader (CNL) are mentioned in comparison and linked together as to not consider one without the other. Although they both tackle similar role challenges the Ncbi (2019) states the APNs focus comes prepared with specialized education on a specific population, whereas the CNL is educated to improve the quality of care and coordinate care in general through collaboration at the microsystems level helping the healthcare team entirely. Ncbi (2019) feels the APN has an over burdened job title and appears to experience a lot of difficulties in enacting their leadership. Leadership styles are discussed which we covered in a previous discussion board post, which goes on to elaborate on all the different ways APNs vs CNLs educate and lead a team. To become a successful leader one must have impacts on both a personal and organization level. As it compares the APN and CNL leadership the ncbi research concluded that CNLs focus is more on evidenced based practice (EBP) and helps to enhance research which is a major pro of this role and therefore helps the APN do their job better and work hand and hand for patient satisfaction and safety. The APN would then go on to teach and lead this EBP in the field and with their own clients. I feel the APN focus are patient centered and that they should remain bedside and forefront helping CNLs by pushing forward leadership through the patient population enhancing self care. As for educators I believe its the job/role of ever/#y nurse to engage in education. The certified nurse educators (CNE) as Staff Writers explain (2020) are the driving force behind the training of skilled nursing professionals. They use their professional expertise to help enhance skills of students in my opinion this is a pro being skills are essential to the care and safety of the patient population and helps create functional healthcare systems worldwide. Staff Writers (2020) explain nurse educators combine their own clinical experiences and academic expertise, preparing students for successful transitions, empowering thriving attitudes, and improving systems of healthcare and nurse education. A pro of this role is with the ever changing world, current pandemic, and newer illnesses approaching it is more critical than ever in healthcare to have skilled confident professionals especially with older nurses retiring, baby boomers, and nurses moving into more advanced titles. I cannot find many cons on having nurse leaders and educators as advanced practice nurses. I feel nursing is a vast overflooded network and having more specially trained groups to help tackle all aspects helps to ensure all areas of patient care are fully covered. This in turns improve patient care, research, informatics, case management and legal counsel. Heinen, M., Oostveen, V. C., Peters, J., Vermeulen, H., & Huis, A. (2019, July 21). An Integrative Review of Leadership Competencies and Attributes in Advanced Nursing Practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi.10.1111/jan.14092. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899698/#__ffn_sectitle Writers, S. (2020, October 26). What is a Nurse Educator? Nurse Practitioners Schools. http://www.nursepractitionerschools.com/faq/what-is-a-nurse-educator/

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Academic Level	Masters
Subject Area	Nursing
Paper Type	Discussion Response
Number of Pages	1 Page(s)/275 words
Sources	1
Format	APA
Spacing	Double Spacing

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