Fast Facts for the New Nurse Practitioner: What You Really Need to Know in a Nutshell Book

Part I Making the Decision

1 Why Become a Nurse Practitioner?

2 How to Begin

Part II Selecting an Educational Program

3 Types of Programs

4 Scholarships, Resources, and More!

Part III Finding the Right Clinical Preceptor

5 Important Things to Consider

6 Balancing it All!

Part IV Searching for a Mentor

7 What to Look for

8 You as a Mentor!

Part V Attaining Your Certification and Licensure

9 Who? What? Where?

10 Passing!

11 What Comes Next?

Part VI Surviving and Thriving: Your First Year in Practice

12 First Job

13 Role Transition

14 Friends and Enemies

Part VII Administrative Issues

15 Bureaucracy

16 Discrimination

17 Institutional Violence

Part VIII Understanding Legal Issues

18 Contracts

19 Malpractice

20 Avoiding Lawsuits

Part IX Ensuring a Collaborative Practice

21 The Collaborative Agreement

22 Selecting a Collaborative Physician

Part X You're in Charge

23 Prescriptive Authority

24 Diagnostics

25 Referrals

Part XI Economics and Policy

26 The Nurse Practitioner and Our National Healthcare System

Part XII Into the Future

27 The Doctor of Nursing Practice

Index