AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)
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NONPF NPRole Core Competencies (2022)
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M.S.N. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
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Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
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NP Domain: Knowledge of Practice
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Utilize inter-professional knowledge in the advanced nursing care of diverse patients, families, and communities to enact clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
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Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
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NP Domain: Person-Centered Care
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Demonstrate person-centered, advanced nursing care for diverse patients, families, and communities to promote positive health outcomes
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Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, healthcare, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
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NP Domain: Population Health
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Construct advanced nursing care to diverse communities to improve population outcomes.
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Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
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NP Domain: Practice Scholarship and Translational Science
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Appraise evidence-based advanced nursing care to diverse patients, families, and communities to improve and transform health care.
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Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
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NP Domain: Quality and Safety
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Employ nursing administrative practices for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities that promotes quality and safety.
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Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
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NP Domain: Interprofessional Collaboration in Practice
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Collaborate in the provision of advanced nursing care to diverse patients, families, and communities to optimize outcomes.
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Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care for diverse populations
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NP Domain: Health Systems
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Lead in the provision of advanced nursing care to diverse patients, families, and communities to provide equitable outcomes.
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Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies Descriptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
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NP Domain: Technology and Information Literacy
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Use technology in advanced nursing care to improve the delivery of care.
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Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
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NP Domain: Professional Acumen
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Integrate professionalism in advanced nursing care of diverse patients, families, and communities to reflect nursing’s characteristics and values.
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Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Descriptor: Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.
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NP Domain: Personal and Professional Leadership
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Participate in professional and personal activities while providing advanced nursing care for diverse patients, families, and communities to support life-long learning.
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