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NAPNAP Position Statement on Age Parameters for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Practice

This article details the age and scope of practice for Pediatric Nurse Practioners based on NAPNAP guidelines. This helps to guide both institutions and practioners with an age related scope of practice.

The NAPNAP website gives a brief overview of the history of PNPs. Apparently it all began in 1965.

This article talks in depth about the position statement from NAPNAP on the scope of practice for Acute Care PNP.

This article does a wonderful job of providing the historical background to the pediatric nurse practitioner profession. It touches upon some of the most memorable accomplishments that were achieved both in the specialty itself and the influential role it played on the profession of nurse practitioners in all specialties. This was a very beneficial resource that I utilized for my APRN infographic!

This article shows a timeline and the evolution of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and NAPNAP starting in 1964.

Timeline on the role of the NP/APRN from the beginning. I like that it's done by decade.

Brief history of AANP

Very helpful timeline of the creation and establishment of NPs

This site gives new PNPs a starting point and a source to research the many options available to us as APRNs in the pediatric world. I've enjoyed navigating through this site and learning more about what's out there!

This 2015 article, written in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, discusses the critical importance of intervening and advocating for APRNs to have full practice authority as opposed to the current varying state-by-state practice laws. The author explains the primary reasons for states retaining restrictions on APRN practice are outdated and include lack of awareness of the current scope of practice of APRNs and organized medicine's persistent opposition to expanding the authority of other providers to practice and receive the full amount for their rendered services. The author supports her argument by including the IOM Committee's view; removing APRN practice restrictions would assist in addressing health care access, high-quality care, and an overall healthier population.

This is what pops up first when you google "the history of pediatric nurse practitioners" -- the authors discuss the origin of the profession.

Advice from NPs who have "been there, done that"