What is the difference between advanced practice nursing and advanced techniques or tasks?
What characterizes APN practice is knowledge and expertise, clinical judgment, skilled and self-initiated care, and scholarly inquiry not job descriptions, title or setting. Advanced nursing practice promotes the development of emphasis on all aspects of advanced practice not simply the promotion of advanced nursing tasks. The development of advanced expertise in a single technique or task (i.e. neonatal resuscitation) does not constitute advanced practice nursing.