As nurses, you have all learned the importance of clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and clinical judgment to make effective and safe patient care decisions in practice. As you move into your role of advanced practice nurse whether that is leadership and management or NP, how does this change? Does it?**Is there a difference between the skills required by the bedside nurse and those needed by the APN? Support the discussion with rationale and readings.
**As you transition to your role as an APN what clinical decision-making skills do you feel are needed for nurses planning to be NPs? Nurse leaders?
**Support this with course readings and other academic literature. Are these different, if so why or why not?
**What standardized decision-making tool has been created to guide nurses at all levels to make practice decisions?
**Why was this created, and what is the purpose of the tool?