Managing Your Practice: A Guide for Advanced Practice Nurses, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Ann Glasgow, and Jane N. Young, editors. New York, Springer Publishing Co, 2003. Hardcover, $42.95.
This book is written primarily for advanced practice nurses although others may benefit from its contents. There are 14 chapters. A large appendix (66 pages) is included to help the reader to accurately understand concepts and terms. There are 14 additional nurse contributors from various areas of the United States so that concepts can be stated and understood nationwide.
The growing practice of nurses with advanced preparation-and their successes-is a cue to future developments and the need for advanced preparation to ensure and enlarge the effective role of nurses in primary care. This is satisfying to patients and is open to richer development. An active in place well family care center is fully explained as a good example of what nurses can do when prepared adequately and have the desire and ambition. Here the professional and business models are merged to provide maximum productivity.
The philosophy of continual data collection evaluation and improvements is a basic means of giving good care. The same level of action can be applied to how malpractice insurance is chosen. The medical ethics issues are a constant and must consistently be a major influence on the process of care to guarantee its moral aspects.
It is important to understand that the rapidly increasing obsolescence of knowledge requires keen insight into keeping as much apace of change as is possible. This is especially true for those who are launching their careers so as to ward off blocks to career growth. Career mismatches must be reduced if the potential for satisfaction and progress is to be achieved. Wide preparation rather than a narrow approach will increasingly be crucial to a steady grasp of opportunities for improved career adjustment for all types of clinicians.
It is important to assure a fruitful relationship with coworkers to have the support one desires and to stimulate professional growth as well as foster opportunities for constant growth in all its forms.