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| | VCU School of Nursing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Advanced practice registered nurses demonstrate a high level of expertise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of the complex responses of individual, families or communities to actual or potential health problems, prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort (ANA, 1996). |
 | | However, advanced practice nursing requires a greater depth and breadth of knowledge, a greater degree of synthesis of data, greater complexity in clinical decision-making, greater skill in managing organizations and environments, and a greater level of autonomy (ANA, 1996). |
 | | School of Nursing faculty actively involve students in maternal child nursing research areas such as the study of chronic illness in adolescents, pregnancy after infertility, the effects on parents of a child in the neonatal unit, adolescent parenting, improved outcomes during labor, breastfeeding support, childbirth education and early mothering roles. |
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