Quality Measures and Evaluation and Role Development of Advanced Practicing Nurses (APNs

  Healthcare facilities strive to reduce healthcare costs, increase access to healthcare services, and improve the quality of services delivered to their patients. Various stakeholders are concerned with healthcare service delivery partners in ensuring the best outcomes among patients including the educational sectors, local authorities, and healthcare policymakers. Advanced Practicing Nurses (APNs) acquire various competencies from their training programs and practice since they are the major people required in delivering quality healthcare services (Girouard, 2009). The quality desired from APNs requires a comprehensive approach to ensure they remain competent and harness their holistic skills in upholding the healthcare systems. There are various gaps in healthcare facilities when delivering services to patients that APNs should understand and formulate the best strategies to address them. Addressing these challenges will make it easier to address healthcare issues affecting these patients. This paper discusses the quality measures and evaluation concerning the role development of APNs. Quality Measures and Evaluation of APNs A quality healthcare environment is a place with safe and reliable conditions to address any health issue facing patients. Quality healthcare services mainly depend on the facilities available in these healthcare institutions and the human power available to disseminate these healthcare services. Costs in healthcare are mainly perceived as a monetary value for the services that patients receive in hospitals. However, healthcare costs also include the utility that people get from healthcare services. Quality healthcare mainly translates to exorbitant costs that patients will incur in these facilities. One challenge that healthcare facilities face when balancing costs and quality is the failure to recognize the long-term impact of not utilizing quality products and competent APNs (Eckelman et al., 2020). The maintenance costs in these facilities will be higher