Introduction
Optimizing Population Health: Strategies for Advance Practice Nurses was developed for learners in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the University of West Florida. Students in the MSN tracks of Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator and Nurse Leader are the focus of this book. Due to the continual evolving nature of population health, the author realized that printed textbooks could not keep up with the contemporary issues that future nurse educators, nurse leaders and nurse practitioners. The purpose of this resource is to provide an overview of population health essential concepts along with resources and strategies that can be used while completing a graduate degree in nursing as well as in practice. Resources are intended to be exemplary, but not exhaustive of all available resources, predominantly focused in the United States.
Overview
- Content is presented in 4 major chapters aligned with the 2021 AACN Essentials of Nursing in the introduction of each chapter.
- A crosswalk of content aligned with the 2021 AACN Essentials of Nursing is in Appendix B: Chapter Crosswalk Advanced-Level AACN Essentials
- Each chapter contains links to videos and websites to allow the reader to engage with the content through practical examples.
- Navigation to the next section is available on each page in the box on the bottom right hand side.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
This book has been created with minimal use of other open educational resources. You can find attrubutions and information regarding all of the resources utilized in this book at the end of every chapter in the “References and Attributions” sections. While this OER book was created for students in the MSN program at the University of West Florida, you are welcome to use this OER, customize it for your program, and share it again.
This OER book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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