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Nurse Practitioner SITES
American
College of Nurse Practitioners
The American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) in a national
nurse practitioner professional organization. The Web site has fact
sheets on Changes In Medicare Reimbursement, A Nurse Practitioner Is...,
ACNP's Legislative Agenda, Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursements for
NPs, Six Key Articles about Nurse Practitioners, and others. There
are many benefits to membership and you can join online. The ACNP has
on online newsletter, ACNP Forum in PDF format that is downloaded in Adobe
Acrobat Reader which you can get free.
Internet
Resources for Nurse Practitioner Students
This site at the University of California San Francisco is a compilation of
links for NPs and other practitioners. Links are made to their publications
list, which include some helpful books for nurse practitioners, for example,
Nurse Practitioner / Physician Collaborative Practice: CLINICAL GUIDELINES
FOR AMBULATORY CARE and ASSESSING AND MANAGING COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS: A
Decision-Making Approach for Health Care Providers.
The
Nurse Practitioner
This site provides a listing of the table of contents of the current The Nurse
Practitioner, ability to subscribe by various means, including online, database
search for CE offerings by specialty, information on conferences and seminars
provided by SpringNet CE Connection, an online program with CE offerings by
an ANCC/AACN provider.
NP
Central
NP Central has information for and about nurse practitioners. This
site has information for NPs looking for positions, as well as prospective
employers looking for NPs, CE listings, case studies, home CE offerings,
listing of print NP print journals and more.
AANP
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners is which is a professional specialty
organization for nurse practitioners, has a national certification program
for NPs. It is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies
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