Overview of advanced practice registered nursing / Melissa A. Saftner and Maria N. Ruud -- Advanced practice within a nursing paradigm / Patricia A. Ducklow -- Multifaceted roles of the APRN / Jana Gail Zwilling -- Advanced practice nursing within health care settings : organizational roles / Jana Gail Zwilling -- Interprofessional collaborative teams and education : roles for the aprn / Kathryn A. Blair -- Global health : dynamic roles for the aprn/apn / Kathy J. Wheeler and Lorna L. Schumann -- Leadership for competencies for aprn : challenges and opportunity / Rebecca M. Patton, Margarete L. Zalon, Ruth Ludwick -- Advanced clinical decision making / Kathryn A. Blair -- Health care policy : implications for practice / Evelyn G. Duffy -- Practice issues : regulation including prescriptive authority and title protection, certification, clinical privileges/credentialing, and liability / Kathryn A. Blair -- Reimbursement realities for the APRN / Andra Fjone and Cheri Friedrich -- Ethical issues in advanced practice nursing / Deborah J. Kenny -- Evidence-based practice : staying informed and translating research into practice and policy / Kathryn A. Blair and Patricia Biller Krauskopf -- Informatics: technology for APRN / Vicki J. Brownrigg -- Scholarship of practice / Patricia A. White and Kathryn A. Blair -- Launching your advanced practice career / Carole G. Traylor.