Advanced Nursing Roles

Advanced Nursing PracticeNameMN501 Institutional affiliationAdvanced Nursing PracticeAdvanced nursing practice has significantly changed over the last two decades. The two primary causes of the changes in advanced nursing practice is the dwindling doctor to patient ratio and the increasing cases of patients with complex needs. Therefore, the advanced nursing practice has become more medically oriented, which is demonstrated by education, innovation, and the transforming roles. Advanced nursing practice has become an integral and vital discipline in the health care system across the world. Thus this paper looks at Advanced nursing practise, certification,education plan, and state-specific implication. Advanced Nursing Practice versus Advanced Practice NursingAdvanced nursing practice is a unique field in nursing that focuses more on integration and application of a wide scope of evidence-based and theoretical knowledge obtained during nursing education graduate program (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, & Grady, 2014, p. 69). Hamric, Hanson, Tracy and Grady (2014), assert that there is usually a