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Brenda L Lyon

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PubMed2005

The need for some sense making: doctor of nursing practice.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has developed a general proposal for a practice doctorate for nursing and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties has developed a proposal for the practice doctorate for nurse practitioners. This article describes the current initiative for developing the practice doctorate and argues that the proposed practice doctorates raise substantial concerns for the discipline of nursing. The concerns addressed in this article include the rationale offered for the new degree, confusion over the focus of the degree, the impact of the degree on educational and economic resources for both students and employers, and the regulatory issues arising from the implementation of the degree. The authors recommend thorough debate by all involved stakeholders before moving forward with this degree.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2002

Cognitive self-care skills: a model for managing stressful lifestyles.

Feeling overwhelmed or overloaded and frequently experiencing anxiety, anger, guilt, and/or frustration is preventable and amenable to personal control. It takes self-awareness and lots of practice to modify long established ways of thinking about one's self and others. It is often helpful to have someone who will support identified goals to improve stress-reducing resources; to help with developing a sensitivity to self-generated stress-inducing demands; and/or to rehearse cognitive stress-reducing, self-care skills. The cognitive self-care skills outlined herein are powerful stress-reducing resources that can prevent psychological stress and that can promote a sense of wellness.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2002

Psychological stress and coping: framework for poststroke psychosocial care.

The ability to deal with and manage a chronic condition such as stroke requires a learning process embedded in personal experience that is often emotionally taxing as well as physically fatiguing. Stroke survivors typically need help in balancing demands and resources and in preventing or effectively coping with stress emotions to conserve energy. The major constructs outlined in this article provide a framework for psychosocial care to promote the experience of wellness in stroke survivors.

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The CNS regulatory quagmire--we need clarity about advanced nursing practice.

The current quagmire in the regulation of CNS practice is largely due to confusion about definitional approaches to advanced nursing practice. Establishing clarity about the nursing focused and medical focused definitions of advanced practice can greatly assist in developing and implementing appropriate levels of regulation for the CNS role and scope of practice. It has been my experience that state boards of nursing want to do their very best in helping to protect the public while not creating insurmountable problems that essentially put APRNs such as CNSs out of work and raise restraint of trade issues. Currently, in some states, there is real economic harm being experienced by CNSs because they cannot get jobs as CNSs when they have been practicing within the domains of the RN license for 10 or more years. I believe the inappropriate regulation of CNSs in some states is occurring because CNSs did not have an organization to represent them at national policy tables until 1995. Therefore, we weren't "at the table" in the early development of recognition strategies for APRNs to help state boards and other policy making groups understand how the CNS practice and role is different from other APRN roles. We must help state boards of nursing clarify the level of regulation needed for both the CNS without and the CNS with prescriptive authority. Then we must help them identify and implement reasonable solutions that do not create unnecessary barriers to CNS practice while assuring society's access to the full range of CNS services.

Certification↗