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The Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers offers programmatic accreditation for postgraduate nurse practitioner and joint nurse practitioner and physician associate training programs, designed by NP and PA postgraduate program directors, for NP and PA postgraduate training directors. The Consortium exists to support new and ongoing postgraduate training programs for nurse practitioners and physician associates in the achievement and maintenance of the highest standards of rigor and quality, consistent with achieving the goal of an expert healthcare workforce prepared to meet the needs of patients and the society as a whole. |
Over the past several weeks I’ve had a series of very interesting conversations with colleagues who are in the midst of establishing new NP postgraduate residencies. These are residencies and fellowships across the primary care spectrum: family, adult/gero, and two in PMHC. Of course there are also programs in midwifery, peds, and others. We’ve talked […]
This last month has been mostly on the road, personally and professionally. We have been visiting every generation of our family, including our 3 grandchildren who range in age from 12 months to 7 years. Seeing how they change month to month reminds me of the progress that NNPRFTC is making, almost minute by minute! […]
The NACHC Policy and Issues forum occurred March 16-19 in Washington DC. I joined two of our Board members, Margaret Flinter and Craig Kennedy, as well as several CHC staff including Kerry Bamrick, Veena Channamsetty, Kevin Massey, Daren Anderson, Agi Erickson and Patti Feeney. Hundreds of people stopped by CHC’s Weitzman Institute exhibit to learn more about […]
The Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Committee charged with assessing progress five years after its original report recently announced their findings. Read their preliminary report and press conference announcements.
