Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections:

Review the history of the advanced nursing practice role and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

• Describe factors that supported the development of the advanced nursing practice role. 
• Analyze barriers to advanced nursing practice. 
• Examine either the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials or role-specific competencies related to your advanced practice role. Identify the selected competencies. Discuss one domain or competency area in which you excel and one in which you have growth opportunities. 
• Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
• Respond to at least one peer.
• Respond to a second peer post.  
• Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
• Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
•  Reference in APA format."