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Chapter 1 covers the history of Midwifery in the US

This article discusses how overall outcomes are better for patients when ACNP are members of a unit or service-based provider team. It also touches on how to hire ACNP for different patient populations.

Thought this article could be useful as we begin to develop our elevator speeches. Many tips exist for developing elevator speeches in the business environment, however, fewer exist for securing a position in healthcare so I found this article to be helpful.

Nursing history arranged by decades. Easy to click and see by year.

Ford and Silver, co-founder of nurse practitioner movement

The article talks about the rise of two professions of NP and PA to help with the acute shortage of doctors post WW II.

this articles outlines the historical timeline of the NICU

This is a timeline from the AANP on the history of our profession.

This site details the history of NP programs and how they were developed. it also provides detailed information about specialty programs and how/why they were started.

This article discusses the evolution of the WHNP. While I am in the FNP program, I plan to specialize in women's health which is why I picked this article. The conclusion of this article notes that the WHNP is moving to becoming a focus area in a FNP or ANP curriculum (or at least that was the author's opinion in 2009). I have found programs which allow for a specialty in women's and gender-related health care such as the following at Columbia and University of Pennsylvania. (Columbia: http://nursing.columbia.edu/course-list/Womens-Health ; U Penn: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/whcs/Pages/WHCNPProgram.aspx)

Informational time line of childbirth and midwifery in America. This might be a helpful jumping-off point for creating your infographic.

In depth history of the midwifery profession and current events.

Informational time line of childbirth and midwifery in America.

This article focuses on the primary care nurse practitioner's development and different response to some controversial issues.

American history of nurse midwifery.

This is the application process through the AANP.

Pediatric Primary Care application for certification through ANCC

None of the links for prescriptive authority worked. This is the GA medical board link that oversees all APRNs prescriptive authority. We will need to apply through them to obtain our DEA license.

Regulates APRN practice in GA

WHNP Candidate Guide NCC