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The first and most sustained point of contact is primary care, which deals with wellness, prevention, and the management of common illnesses. It is offered within community-based practices such as clinics, health centers, and private practices. It is aimed at promoting the health of individuals and populations in the long-term, preventing illness at an early stage before it demands a more complex intervention (Teegala et al., 2024). In this level of practice, the DNP-prepared nurse is the most common primary care provider. For example, they work with a patient panel, conducts annual check-ups, and treats a condition revolving lifestyle change (Teegala et al., 2024). Moreover, a DNP in Public Health examines interventions at a community level, such as a mass vaccination effort or a diabetes prevention initiative, and is interested in the social determinants of health about entire neighborhoods.
Secondary care involves specialized care, which is normally accessed through a recommendation by the primary care provider. It entails the diagnosis of certain diseases or conditions and their treatment, which necessitates a more specialized knowledge or technology. This treatment is typically intermittent and not continuous, and can take place in such settings as specialist offices, hospitals, or outpatient surgical centers (Martsolf et al., 2023). An example is visiting an orthopedic surgeon because of joint replacement, or visiting an inpatient hospital because of pneumonia. Here, the role of the DNP-prepared nurse is that of a specialist clinical leader. A physician specialist works with an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (DNP) to provide care to acutely ill patients. For example, they deal with post-operative issues (Martsolf et al., 2023). Moreover, the DNP Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) conducts direct complex patient care, consults with complex patients, and leads on quality improvement initiatives thereby reducing the number of post-surgical infections within their unit.
Tertiary care is very specialized and technological care when severe, complex, or rare conditions are involved and may include advanced surgical procedures and life-support systems. This care is concentrated into large referral centers, academic teaching hospitals, or regional units such as trauma centers, burn units, and advanced cardiac care units. This level of treatment, which includes open-heart surgery, organ transplantation, or care of severe traumatic brain injury, is very resource-demanding and intense. The role of DNP at this level of care is oriented toward systems leadership, creative practice, and addressing extreme complexity (Rosenfeld et al., 2022). A DNP in Critical Care can be the leader of the multidisciplinary team at a neuro-intensive care unit, who coordinates the support of a patient under advanced neurological life support and introduces new monitoring technologies. On the executive level, a tertiary hospital has a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) with a DNP degree who manages the entire nursing infrastructure (Rosenfeld et al., 2022). Their mandate is to make sure that the complex ecosystem necessary to support the transplants or neonatal intensive care has the appropriate staffing models, resources, and, therefore, creates the environment in which the best medicine is practiced.
In formulating this discussion, two DNP essentials were explored. First, DNP Essential I was discussed by analyzing the difference in the context of delivering care based on the evidence across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels and the application of scientific knowledge by DNP nurses on the right level (AACN, 2021). Second, the DNP Essential VII was covered by examining how nurses prepared in DNP foster wellness and prevention of disease, especially in the primary care environments, and the management of intricate conditions in the secondary and tertiary care settings (AACN, 2021). Besides, role-specific competencies of knowledge of the healthcare environment and professionalism were achieved by the ability to identify the ways DNP nurses manage various care systems and uphold professional standards at all levels of healthcare.
**References**
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). (2021). The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education. AACN.
Martsolf, G., Turi, E., Liu, J., Chen, J., & Poghosyan, L. (2023). DNP Preparation of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Conditions. _Nursing Outlook_, _71_(3), 101951.
Rosenfeld, P., Glassman, K., Vetter, M., & Smith, B. (2022). A Comparative Study of PhD and DNP Nurses In an Integrated Health Care System. _Nursing Outlook_, _70_(1), 145-153.
Teegala, Y., Marsh, Z., Ambrosio, A., O'Rourke, L., & Cotter, V. T. (2024). The Role of DNP-Prepared Nurses as Organizational and Clinical Preceptors. In _DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice: Third Edition_ (pp. 461-465). Springer.