A Core Curriculum for Nurse Life Care Planning
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About the Book
A Core Curriculum for Nurse Life Care Planning helps registered nurse life care planners prepare to take the CNLCP credentialing exam and serves as a foundation for a successful nurse life care planning practice. This textbook is based on the nursing process of assessment, critical thinking, and nursing diagnoses, and it also covers applying nursing research, evidenced-based practice, case management skills, and legal nursing practices.
Written by practicing nurse life care planners and peer-reviewed by AANLCP member nurse life care planners, this core curriculum includes basic nurse life care planning knowledge on
• The history of nurse life care planning • The use of critical thinking in the life care planning process • How to critique a life care plan • How to address spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, chronic pain, amputations, burns, cerebral palsy, and considerations with aging • How to understand disability rights laws • The legal aspects of nurse life care planning • Litigation processesProviding a foundation to encourage nurse life care planners to research and learn, A Core Curriculum for Nurse Life Care Planning offers a valuable resource for nurses practicing in this field.
About the Author
Edited by Dorajane Apuna-Grummer, BSN, MA, DHA, RN, CCM CNLCP and Wendie A. Howland, MN, RN-BC, CRRN, CCM, CNLCP, LNCC, this volume by the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners is the collaborative work of more than thirty nurse experts in the field of nurse life care planning.