Compare the use of Master’s-prepared nurses functioning within your organization based on the following:. Please identify your comments using different colored font within the worksheet.

a) Describe the Master’s-prepared nurses employed within your organization, not just your work setting/unit.

• those functioning in Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) roles – NP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA
• those functioning as educators, administrators, managers, IT, etc. – specify if they are APNs in those roles

b) To whom do they report? Analyze how that affects their role, practice, and collaboration with nursing and interprofessional providers. As a group are they effective in their roles.

c) How can/do the Advanced Practice Nurses and other Master’s-prepared nurses impact the clinical microsystem in your work setting/unit to promote quality outcomes?