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 In what ways can an APRN distinguish his or her role from other nursing roles and medical counterparts? Why might this be important? The role of an advanced practice nurse falls between an RN and a physician in such areas as training, autonomy, responsibilities, and compensation. For instance, advanced practice nurses have considerable autonomy since they can diagnose and treat conditions and prescribe medications. In some states, they must work under the supervision of or in collaboration with a physician. They often supervise RNs (Feeney, 2021). 

DISCUSSION POST # 1 Cherry

APRN - NP vs RN, PA, and MD 

APRN - NP 

High levels of autonomy; can practice independently in most states with limited physician supervision in others 

Can make diagnoses and order treatments 

Can prescribe medications, including controlled substances 

Minimum six years of college with a master's degree in nursing 

Requires education and certification beyond RN 

RN 

Limited autonomy and independence; must practice under the direct supervision of a physician or an APRN 

Cannot diagnose conditions or prescribe medications; carries out a physician or APRN treatment plans 

Minimum two years of college with an associate degree in nursing (ADN) 

Requires RN license 

Can be an entry-level position 

PA 

PAs have the ability to treat patients independently of a medical physician. They perform a variety of duties including writing prescriptions, ordering and interpreting laboratory tests, assisting in surgery, performing minor bedside procedures, diagnosing patients, developing treatment plans, and obtaining patient histories Gaines (2021). 

MD 

1. A NP is a Nurse Practitioner, while an MD is a Doctor of Medicine. 

2. A NP is licensed by the Nursing Board, whereas an MD is licensed by the Medical Doctor’s Board. 

3. A MD’s education requirements are more extensive compared to NP's. 

4. Both MDs and NPs can work independently in medical care facilities and hospitals. 

5. In terms of writing orders and prescriptions, NPs are restricted to a certain level, but MDs aren’t. 

It is imperative to know NP's role. NPs provide medical care collaborating the best of what nursing and medicine have to offer. NP is not just a “nurse” and is very identical to a physician. They may differ in their experience and clinical background but they will overlap as well. We need medical providers whose standards are high. No one should think less of NPs as they are willing to fill the gaps in care that exist for less. 

DISCUSSION POST # 2 Gita

APRNs include nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives and all play a pivotal role in the future of health care. APRNs are serving as primary care providers and are at the forefront of providing preventive care services to the public.  APRNs treat and diagnose illness, manage chronic disease, make a treatment plan. APRN nursing roles are developing globally and opportunities for advanced practice nursing are expanding worldwide. However, numbers of challenges exist in regards to the increasing numbers of APRNs globally. Those include poor role clarification, the proliferation of APRN titles, differing educational requirements and degrees, scopes of practice conflicts, etc. (Kleinpell et all, 2014). The lack of clarity regarding role uniqueness is one of the troublesome issues that have emerged in the advancement of APRN practice. 

Changes in professional roles can lead to power struggles, whenever the nurse practitioner role has been introduced into clinical teams, one of the greatest difficulties encountered has involved the clarification of professional roles. Lack of role clarity about the nurse practitioner's role has created confusion and led to resistance to its integration. It is necessary to clarify the role of APRNs to prevent power struggles, facilitate the integration of new roles in teams and foster interprofessional collaboration. There are lots of roles that overlap special in primary care practices among the roles of physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and other professionals on the clinical teams. Clarifying professional roles can serve several purposes like defining each person’s responsibilities, ensuring appropriate implementation of each professional’s role, optimizing professional scopes of practice, and thereby ensuring efficient patient management. Moreover, if the APRNS  have clear role clarification, they can recognize and respect the diversity of other healthcare and social care roles, responsibilities, and competencies, perform their own roles in a culturally respectful way, communicate role, knowledge, skills, and attitudes using appropriate language, access others skills and knowledge appropriately through consultation, consider the roles of others in determining own professional and interprofessional roles and integrate competencies seamlessly into models of service delivery (Brault et al, 2014).