Advanced Practice Nurse Directory APN Home  APN Database The APN directory is a benefit to consumers and providers alike. All interested providers may be listed within the directory. Advanced practice nurses, usually educated at the graduate degree level, provide health care to individuals, families and groups. Their practice emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, assessment and clinical management. Advanced practice nurses are educated to exercise a high degree of independent judgment, complex clinical decision making, and skill in managing organizations and health care environments (ANA, 1996). They are educated to provide services that include but are not limited to:
The skills needed to provide these services are now basic to advanced practice nursing education and should no longer require medical delegation, protocols or supervision. Consumers may search the site free of charge. This is an automated directory. WNA does not perform checks on the providers listed in this directory, and therefore does not in any way endorse them. WNA accepts no responsibility for the providers in this directory. |