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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.

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

American history of nurse midwifery.

A great article detailing APRN and Women's Health.

This is the application process through the AANP.

Pediatric Primary Care application for certification through ANCC

For those who also might be moving to the great state of TEXAS!!

WHNP Candidate Guide NCC

For those who would like to register in New York.

STEP 2: Select CNM/CM Exam Applications. STEP 3: Scroll down until you see: "For online CNM/CM Exam Applications Click Here". Click and you will be re-directed to the AMCB Portal Page STEP 4: Click on First Time Applicant-Certified Midwife (CM) or Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) then click Create Account.

Interesting article about interdisciplinary teams

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.

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.

I know we're focusing on NPs in the US, but here's an interesting timeline of the history of NPs in Jamaica.

This is a Canadian public ad campaign, defining what nurse practitioners are, what they can do, and how they can help improve quality of and access to care. It is well-made. I feel that similar campaigns in the U.S. Would help to increase public knowledge and understanding of our profession.

Birth centers run by midwives lead to better outcomes than hospital births

This article shares an experience of an NP in Nevada who had been trying to care for patients in under served areas but was having difficulty finding MDs to sign agreements with in those areas. This inhibited her ability to treat people in need but, thankfully, a new law was passed July 1 that enabled her to treat these people to the full extent her education taught her to, without having to rely on an agreement with an MD. It is important for us to remain aware of our scope of practice but also to fight for our ability to practice to the full extent we're being taught to do.

Impact out of how PCNP's in palliative care are making a positive and sometimes neutral (no negative) impact in healthcare and healthcare cost. There are better articles (from abstract alone), but no full length available for some reason via Emory Database/CINAHL/google (just not free/inaccessible).