This article presents a student perspective of transitioning from student midwife to practicing midwife. She attributes her success to the problem based learning style of her nursing program and he...
This article is a qualitative study on new midwives operating in a still contested environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22672463 Fenwick, J., Hammond, A., Raymond, J., Smith, R., Gray,...
This article talks about the transition from a student NP to a full practicing clinician. The article describes the benefits a post-grad "fellowship" can have on new APRNS entering the field. Howev...
This study analyzed National Provider Identifier (NPI) data from 2010 to understand the distribution of APRN's in rural and urban areas of the United States and how practice autonomy contributes to...
This article does a great job of outlining the historical timeline of nurse practitioners in the ED setting. The main thing I took away from this article is that the role of ENPs is relatively new ...
Reforms broadening the APRN scope of practice have been introduced to increase access to primary care across the country but such reforms have been met with resistance from physicians. This article...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2012.00812.x/full Diverse regulatory criteria, such as variable accreditation standards, disparate certification and licensing requirements, ...
NONPF facilitated a multi-organizational work group to develop a statement on primary care and acute care nurse practitioners. The work group intended for the document to be a resource to individ...
This is the FNP portion of the ANCC website and gives plenty of information and helpful hints on our FNP credentialing exam. This site is very thorough and has lots of information, including how to...
Interesting read- may be helpful to begin thinking about how you want to transition into midwifery practice. McCarthy, A. M. (2015). Benefits and Challenges of a Nurse-Midwife Fellowship: A Revie...
http://kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/tapping-nurse-practitioners-to-meet-rising-demand-for-primary-care/ This article does a wonderful job in portraying the shortage of primary care health professi...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Exploring+the+Transition+From+Registered+Nurse+to+Family+Nurse+Practitioner
The hand book prepared by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) for Nurse Practitioner (NP) candidates is designed to provide candidates with essential informat...
Competencies that Emergency Nurse Practitioners have to complete and document in order to become ENP certified.
This was one of the articles I read while researching for my infographic. It briefly discusses the history of the first ENP's from a graduate program at the University of Texas. It's main focus how...
This is a great article about the transition to APRN from RN written by an FNP!
This article is a systematic review of published materials, using cites such as: PubMed, CINAHL, and Proquest to look at how APRNs affect patient outcomes, as they contribute more and more to the h...
Here is a quick link to everything you need to know about being an APRN in the great volunteer state of Tennessee. http://www.tnaonline.org/pages/content-migration/tna---advanced-practice-nursing
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) has risen to epidemic rates in the U.S. and is under-reported. The data for 28 states, reported in this article, indicates these trends. The use of ICD-9 codes ar...
