What's New
FAQs on Consensus Model
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and their answers pertaining to the Consensus Model on APRN Regulation are now available from the LACE - Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Education - group.
Adult-Gero Primary Care NP Competencies
NONPF participated in a collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to identify the Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Competencies. The competencies, released in June 2010, provide NP educational programs with guidance in program development for the combining of the adult and gerontological foci into adult-gerontological NP programs. This combined focus is specified in the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Accreditation (2008). The model also specifies that a NP program may be either acute care or primary care focused, and distinct competencies are needed for each. The Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Competencies are specific to the primary care focus. NONPF will be leading the identification of the adult-gerontological acute care NP competencies, expected to be ready for release in fall 2010.
Primary Care
The May/June issue of Health Affairs is available online and focuses completely on primary care:
Reinventing Primary Care:
May/June 2010; Vol. 29, No. 5
The Table of Contents is available online at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol29/issue5/index.dtl
36th Annual NONPF Conference
The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) hosted over 500 NP educators for the 36th Annual Meeting on April 15-18, 2010, in Washington, DC. The conference program featured outstanding plenary sessions that updated attendees on health reform and its impact for NP practice and education, implementation of the APRN Consensus Model, and competency-based evaluation. Did you miss the conference or a session? Never fear -- you can still order the Program CD Archive to obtain slides and audio from the plenary and concurrent sessions.
Order the Program CD Archive today!
NP & Nursing Organizations Respond to AMA
Twenty-seven national nursing organizations that represent NPs directly or some aspect of NP regulation (licensure, accreditation, certification, and education) signed a collective response to the American Medical Association (AMA) regarding the module on nurse practitioners prepared as part of its Scope of Practice Data Series. The AMA had sent a draft of the module to NONPF and other nurse practitioner organizations with the invitation to clarify any "factual misstatements" in the document. NONPF and our other colleagues on the Nurse Practitioner Roundtable (AANP, ACNP, GAPNA, NAPNAP, NPWH) led the effort to prepare a response that reflects the views of the broader NP community. The NP Roundtable submitted the NP response to the AMA. NONPF thanks its colleagues on the Nurse Practitioner Roundtable and the other signatories on the letter for coming together in this response.
NHSC Invitation
Dr. Mary Wakefield, Administrator of HRSA, has issued a letter of introduction to the loan repayment and scholarship opportunities available to NP students through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). The NHSC has brought over 30,000 primary care providers to communities where health care is scarce since its inception in 1970. In exchange for this service, the US Government provides repayment of some or all educational debt. The two programs within the NHSC are a scholarship program and a loan repayment program. NONPF urges NP educators to share the attached letter with NP students and to encourage their participation in the National Health Service Corps.
NONPF Releases Project Report on NP Specialty & Subspecialty Tracks
NONPF has released "Clarification of Nurse Practitioner Specialty and Subspecialty Clinical Track Titles, Hours, and Credentialing," (June 2009) a report of a four-phased research project conducted by NONPF and funded by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's Center for Regulatory Excellence. This detailed report summarizes the findings from the study to amplify and clarify information about current and emerging NP educational pathways leading to specialty and subspecialty preparation. The findings present what is currently happening in NP educational programs and offers a baseline for implementation of the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Accreditation (2008).
The Members Only Section of the NONPF Web site includes many more announcements on current issues and opportunities.
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