Unlock the Potential of Advanced Practice Providers: A Comprehensive Guide to Workforce Integration

By Maria Lofgren, Christine Gust, and Douglas Van Daele

The rapidly growing advanced practice provider (APP) workforce, comprising APRNs and PAs, is revolutionizing healthcare delivery. These highly educated professionals are crucial in meeting the increasing demands for high-quality, accessible healthcare. To optimize top-of-license practice, healthcare leaders need a roadmap to effectively integrate APPs into their organizational infrastructures.

Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration offers a blueprint for hospitals, clinics, academic programs, and healthcare organizations to successfully assimilate APPs, achieving high-quality care, patient safety goals, and team care initiatives. This comprehensive guide provides administrators and educators with actionable strategies to leverage and support APPs, ensuring optimal productivity and collaboration.

This invaluable resource provides:

• Customizable documents and practices tailored to individual organizations
• Real-world examples of top-of-license practice, promoting APP productivity and collaboration
• In-depth descriptions of organizational practices across finance, HR, compliance, and credentialing
• Insight into team-based care and models of independent practice
• Guidance on recruitment and professional development pipelines to meet the growing demand for APPs

Comprehensive Coverage of APP Workforce Integration

The book is divided into 18 chapters, covering essential topics such as:

• Comparison of Medicine and Nursing Infrastructures and the Growing APP Workforce
• Understanding the Organizational Blueprint
• Establishing an Infrastructure
• APRN and PA Scope of Practice
• Establishing an APP Workforce
• APP Onboarding
• Operationalizing Telehealth
• APRN and PA Students
• APP Business Pro Forma
• Credentialing and Privileging
• Organizational Compliance
• Professional Development
• Mentoring
• Metrics That Matter
• Team-Based Care
• Patient Access Center
• Organizational Initiatives
• Looking to the Future

Published by Sigma Theta Tau International, this 402-page book is an essential resource for healthcare leaders, educators, and administrators seeking to optimize APP workforce integration and drive high-quality patient care.