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AANP seeks to represent the interests of the more than 355,000 nurse practitioners licensed to practice in the U.S. [2] and continually advocates at local, state and federal levels for the recognition of nurse practitioners as providers of high-quality, cost-effective and personalized health care.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
The NCLEX exam consists of multiple-choice questions, questions that require choosing all of the correct answers from a list of options, putting a number of steps in the correct sequence, or identifying a correct area on a picture. Some of these alternative format questions ask information about a chart, graph, or audio clip.
The competition consists of 15 questions of increasing difficulty, where each answer is an integer between 0 and 999 inclusive. Thus the competition effectively removes the element of chance afforded by a multiple-choice test while preserving the ease of automated grading; answers are entered onto an OMR sheet, similar to the way grid-in math questions are answered on the SAT.
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In addition to the Competition Series program, students can also participate in the National Math Club program. The National Math Club program allows schools and non-school groups to start a math club for free. Upon registering, club leaders earn free online access to dozens of games, explorations, and problem sets.
A nurse practitioner (NP) is an advanced practice registered nurse and a type of mid-level practitioner. [1] [2] NPs are trained to assess patient needs, order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, diagnose disease, prescribe medications and formulate treatment plans.
APN: Advanced Practice Nurse (same as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse but not recommended as a legally recognized title) ARNP: Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (refers to Nurse Practitioners in some states in the US) C or BC following a title: Certified or Board Certified (i.e., APRN-BC, WHNP-BC, PNP-BC, FNP-C, GNP-C, ANP-BC)