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This book, endorsed by the International Council of Nurses, explores a new conversation around scholarly talents for advanced candidate /nurse practitioners that comprise a variety of forms such as teaching, synthesis, discovery, engagement and application. It offers an expansive view of Boyer´s scholarship, with a call to action for advanced candidate /nurse practitioners to thoughtfully plan and map their personal goals and capabilities, that will mark them as professionals and future scholars needed in today´s challenging and changing professional workplace.

Knowing how to apply the various forms of scholarship to problems of practice within one´s field of expertise and the implications of Boyer´s pillars of scholarship for advanced candidate / nurse practitioners are interweaved throughout this book.

The volume discusses the science of career cartography, alongside legacy planning and career mapping. The toolkit illustrates a guide for advanced candidate /nurse practitioners to create their individual career legacy map and reflect on how they wish to contribute to the discipline of nursing, while working to improve the lives of others.

This book serves as a catalyst for robust conversations among scholar practitioners on the very nature of clinical scholarship

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Chapter 1. The Nature of Scholarship Definitions and terms associated with scholarship Characteristics of scholarship Research and scholarship are almost synonymous Distinctions between scholarly knowledge producers and scholarly knowledge users
Chapter 2. Boyer´s Pillars of Scholarship - Scholarship of Engagement - Scholarship of Discovery - Scholarship of Teaching - Scholarship of Integration - Scholarship of Application Pillars of scholarship personify a continuous loop and not discrete entities Interdisciplinary research and scholarship, rather than academic silos
Chapter 3. Transforming scholarly practice into clinical scholarship Clinical scholarship is elusive in nursing and difficult to conceptualise and verbalise Clinical scholarship is useful to address the theory practice gap in nursing Essential standards necessary to adjudicate on scholarly work: Glassick´s work
Chapter 4. The spectrum of clinical scholarship The particular knowledge base of scholarship that shapes advanced practice Person-centred care and the scholar practitioner Communities of practice support a culture of clinical scholarship
Chapter 5. Doctorate of Nursing Practice is a conduit for scholarship in the advanced practice clinical realm? Is there a distinction between excellent clinical practice and practice as scholarship? Advanced practice in essence is a pyramid for clinical scholarship
Chapter 6. The Science of Cartography Career Cartography and the Scholarship Trajectory Components of Career Cartography - Destination Statement - Identification of the Policy Context of a Career - Career Legacy Map Applying the Science of Cartography to Advanced Practice Exemplar Toolkit Using Career Cartography for Advanced Practitioners
Chapter 7. Reflections of a ´joint chair-advanced nurse practitioner´ on finding meaning in a patient´s story allied with clinical scholarship.

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