Awarded first place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Health Care Administration category Advanced practice providers (APPs), including APRNs and PAs, are a rapidly growing part of the healthcare workforce. These highly educated providers help meet the demands for high quality, accessible healthcare. This book aims to give leaders at hospitals, clinics, academic programs, and healthcare organizations direction on integrating APPs to optimize top-of-license practice. Advanced Practice Providers: An Operational Guide for Workforce Integration provides a blueprint to successfully assimilate APPs within existing organizational infrastructures to achieve high quality care, patient safety goals, and team care initiatives. Administrators and educators at healthcare organizations and academic programs alike will find guidance on how best to leverage and support APPs. This book: Provides customizable documents and practices that can be tailored to different organizations - Includes top-of-license practice examples that optimize APP productivity and support collaboration - Describes organizational practices across all disciplines―including finance, HR, compliance, and credentialing -Discusses team-based care and models of independent practice - Supports recruitment and professional development pipelines to meet the increasing demand for APPs TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Comparison of Medicine and Nursing Infrastructures and the Growing APP Workforce Chapter 2: Understanding the Organizational Blueprint Chapter 3: Establishing an Infrastructure Chapter 4: APRN and PA Scope of Practice Chapter 5: Establishing an APP Workforce Chapter 6: APP Onboarding Chapter 7: Operationalizing Telehealth Chapter 8: APRN and PA Students Chapter 9: APP Business Pro Forma Chapter 10: Credentialing and Privileging Chapter 11: Organizational Compliance Chapter 12: Professional Development Chapter 13: Mentoring Chapter 14: Metrics That Matter Chapter 15: Team-Based Care Chapter 16: Patient Access Center Chapter 17: Organizational Initiatives Chapter 18: Looking to the Future Appendices Doody's Reviews: Weighted Numerical Score: 98/100 - 5 Stars! "There is no other book quite like this on the market. It is an excellent guide targeted at health care executives, human resource personnel, lead APP, entry level APPs, educators, policy makers and anyone who finds themselves leveraging an APP workforce to optimize their full potential." -Susan M DeNisco, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP Sacred Heart University “This is a must-read for all healthcare organizational leaders where advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants are a part of the healthcare team. The authors of this book have brilliantly laid out a blueprint to build a strong and engaged APRN/PA staff.” --Risa Zimmerman, MBA, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA Director, Office of Advanced Practice Nebraska Medicine “With the rapid expansion of advanced practice providers nationwide, new APP leaders seek guidance and insight on building a program of fully optimized providers. Lofgren et al. have accomplished this task, providing a complete and comprehensive road map for C-suites and APP leaders to follow, creating the pillars of supporting practice from student to expert for healthcare organizations.” --Bonnie Proulx, DNP, APRN, PNP-BC, FAAN Senior Vice President Physician Enterprise Kaufman Hall Healthcare Management and Consulting Maria Lofgren, DNP, ARNP, NNP-BC, CPNP, FAANP , is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Practice at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and the Director of Advanced Practice Providers at University of Iowa Health Care. Christine Gust, MBA, PHR, SHRM-CP , is Human Resources Generalist at University of Iowa Health Care, Carver College of Medicine, Office of Advanced Practice Providers. Her work has led to aligning HR strategies to advanced practice provider organizational objectives, policies, programs, and initiatives. Douglas Van Daele, MD, FACS , is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and is affiliated with the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System.