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Surgical Skills For The Aprn Student: A Low-Fidelity Simulation Experience, Jason C. Heath
Surgical Skills For The Aprn Student: A Low-Fidelity Simulation Experience, Jason C. Heath
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
There are many contemporary areas of practice available to the ACNP to date that encompass a surgical component of practice. Surgical specialty settings require a practitioner to be competent in a specialized base of knowledge as well as possess a fundamental set of psychomotor skills to practice competently. Unlike the training of the PA, ACNP programs do not typically address surgical theory or skills. The purpose of the program was to increase graduate nursing student confidence in basic surgical skills. The review of the literature examined the differences between the educational preparation of the PA and the NP, expansion of …