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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.

Craft a pitch that continues the conversation after you step off the elevator.

The article discusses the challenges that newly graduated primary care nurse practitioners are facing during their first year of practice and also discuss how to overcome them.

I found this article to be very interesting in that it highlights the importance of transitioning and caring for the geriatric population. As part of my AGACNP program and future career i will be working with many elderly patients.

Here is a recent commentary written by two nursing professors from the University of Pennsylvania SON about nurse residency programs. Until reading this article, I was not aware that the IOM recommends residency programs for nurses who complete an advanced practice degree program. Currently, data illustrates that these programs improve practitioner confidence and strengthen NP role identity; however, there is a lack of data showing the impact of these programs on patient outcomes. These professors believe that residences should not be mandated but rather encouraged.

This guide from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners helps clarify the many facets of contract negotiations and provides a guide to help new NPs prioritize what to focus on during contract negotiations.

A study that looks at several ways to promote Interdisciplinary teamwork in a virtual environment

Our study demonstrated that participation in the Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership (QIIP) Learning Collaborative (LC) program influenced team functioning in Primary Health Care (PHC) teams, and facilitated the development of team based care processes. Enhanced communication processes increased both the recognition and the use of team members' scope of practice. Being respected and understood improved team collaboration as well as team functioning. Supporting and sharing leadership was a central component to successful team functioning.

J Prof Nurs. 2015 Jul-Aug;31(4):340-50. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2015.02.007. Epub 2015 Feb 28. Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't The articles explore the benefits of interdisciplinary care models and shows evidence of the importance and benefits of an interdisciplinary model of care. It highlights how intentional interdisciplinary practice can yield outcomes that are beyond the ability of a single professional to produce and further affirms that nursing can play a pivotal role in developing and implementing these care models and in leading these IPCP teams.

This systematic review article has shown that the interdisciplinary care in general medical wards has not made any significant improvement to patient's outcome. This article states that it really needs to look more into their outcome criteria, and I, personally based on this article, think that this article needs to look at more into how interdisciplinary team in this review has performed as a team.

This article is a comprehensive overview of dementia care; scroll about 1/3rd down for multidisciplinary teamwork which is later captured in the discussion about treatment options as well.

The author figures out the challenges in interdisciplinary teamwork among healthcare providers. These challenges are worth attention if we hope to do well in interdisciplinary teamwork.

This article discusses how interdisciplinary teamwork is experienced at three levels: healthcare professionals, patients, and healthcare organizations.

The points made by the author - reaching decisions collectively, making sure everyone is committed to the same purpose and goal, full participation, understanding the work of other disciplines - can be applied in any type of teamwork setting for successful outcomes. However, with healthcare the author points out that effective teamwork can lead to decreasing health care costs, improved patient safety, and decreasing workload through shared responsibilities. All areas that can allow for better patient care and more efficient use of time and financial resources.

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!

Becoming a dermatology NP is just one route an FNP can take...

This is a lengthy piece but has some great perspectives regarding policy for APRN's. Speaks about restrictive physician supervision and scope of practice.

I thought this was a very nice summary of the history of Midwives in Colonial America. Oh my, how things have changed!

This article provides an in-depth look at the scope of practice of acute care nurse practitioners. It touches on the history of the nurse practitioner role and how the acute role was developed from there. It also states that the first acute care nurse practitioners to be established were NNPs.

Thanks so much for finding this article! Exactly what I needed, and seeing as I was searching for stuff a couple hours and didnt find this, I know it wasnt easy, so thanks!

How to have a successful orientation to optimize transition into the inpatient setting. Focus is on Trauma NP in this article.