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The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is a North American professional association formed in 2013 as a result of a merger between the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (founded in 1985) and the American College of Nurse Practitioners (founded in 1995) to provide nurse practitioners with a unified way to network and advocate their issues. [1]
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.
African-American self determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for self-determination on North American soil, ranging from autonomy to independence.
A long cap, that covers much of the nurse's hair, and; A short cap, that sits atop the nurse's hair (common in North America and the United Kingdom). The nursing cap was originally used by Florence Nightingale in the 1800s. [2] Different styles of caps were used to depict the seniority of the nurse, the frillier and longer the more senior the ...
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The limit on black nurses was 48 in 1941 and they were mostly segregated from white nurses and soldiers. [23] In 1943, the Army set a limit on black nurses to 160. [ 22 ] That same year, the first African American medical unit, the 25th Station Hospital Unit , was deployed overseas to Liberia . [ 22 ]
The scope of practice for a nurse practitioner includes the range of skills, procedures, and processes for which the individual has been educated, trained, and credentialed to perform. [2] Scope of practice for nurse practitioners is defined at four levels: 1) professional, 2) state, 3) institutional, and 4) self-determined. [3]
Loretta Cecelia Ford (née Pfingstel; [1] December 28, 1920 – January 22, 2025) was an American nurse and the co-founder of the first nurse practitioner program. Along with pediatrician Henry Silver, Ford started the pediatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1965.