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Details the scope and prescriptive authority of NPs in CA.

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.

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!

As NP we need to advocate for ourselves in everyday life as well as the political arena because politics is where our profession will achieve the most success. With supportive policy backing up our practice our future is limitless.

This article was presented by the National Governors Association on the role that NPs can fill in healthcare

Opportunities for NPs interested in being part of Emory Healthcare

These are the Adult Gero Acute Care NP competencies that were developed by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) in 2012. Interesting that these were only developed 3 years ago!

This article made me reflect on why I first pursued an advanced nursing degree, which will certainly be a question that we are asked throughout our careers.

This article discusses the external and internal stressors a novice nurse practitioner will experience in the first few years of his, or her, career. It then discusses the four phases that an NP can expect to endure as they become more confident in the field. Many stressor come from aspects of the job that include billing, referrals and even ownership of ones role as a primary care provider. This piece offers mitigation to the previous stressors with the introduction of a mentor.

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

Discusses challenges faced by new NP grads as they transition from student to NP.

This article describes feeling like a fraud once in a new role as an advanced practice nurse. It also speaks to how this is a normal feeling and suggests different ways to cope with these feelings to make the transition easier.

This article describes the orientation process used in a pediatric cardiac center for APNs to increase confidence in skills, knowledge of role, mentorship, and NP retention during the first year of practice.

Brief paper from a recent Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Research Congress. The emphasis is on mentoring to fill the gap of little to no NP orientation for new grads.

This article looked at the factors that affect the role transition from student to NP. It found a positive relationship when the individual received formal orientation. The study found no difference in those who had prior RN experience and those who did not.

This study reviewed the struggles new APRNs were having when transitioning to new healthcare providers. It discussed the benefits of a formal residency program for new APRNs and used the benefits the programs provided for new MDs to support the findings that these formal residencies could provide for new APRNs.

This articles takes about the importance of a structured residency program for new nurse practitioners. A structured residency program helps to the NP to get acclimated in the new role of being a provider and ensures patients are receiving quality care.

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is the largest and only full-service national professional membership organization for nurse practitioners (NPs) of all specialties.

Barriers to NP practice - emergence of NP role 

GA NP Scope of practice. It's a blog, but it spells out supervision laws nicely.

This is a link to a visualization of NP scope of practice in each state. Our skillset remains the same in each state, yet our autonomy is variable!