Clinician Reviews

Trauma Columnist · Jan 18, 2009

Do you have a link?

JDCitizen · Jan 18, 2009

Do you have a link?

Can't direct link here but cut and paste and remove the gap and this should take you directly to the article: http ://www.clinicianreviews.com/index.asp?page=8_13399.xml

Advanced Practice Columnist / Guide · Jan 18, 2009

Didn't see that article on Clinician Reviews. But it sounds like the article was referring to the Concensus Model for APRN Licensure, Accreditation, Regulation, and Education. These are recommendations from the work of APN groups involved in education, certification, and accreditation as well as state BON's and is being currently endorsed by a number of APN professional organizations. The full document is found here: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/APRNReport.pdf. It's an interesting document that gives a vision of the future of APN's particularly addressing confusion in terms of NP training or education, regulation, accreditation, and licensure.

JDCitizen · Jan 18, 2009

Didn't see that article on Clinician Reviews. But it sounds like the article was referring to the Concensus Model for APRN Licensure, Accreditation, Regulation, and Education. These are recommendations from the work of APN groups involved in education, certification, and accreditation as well as state BON's and is being currently endorsed by a number of APN professional organizations. The full document is found here: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/APRNReport.pdf. It's an interesting document that gives a vision of the future of APN's particularly addressing confusion in terms of NP training or education, regulation, accreditation, and licensure.

That is part of the article:

...."It may have taken five years and the collaborative efforts of more than 50 organizations, but the nursing community has developed a Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Education (available at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN] Web site, http://www.ncsbn.org). The model, as its subtitle indicates, outlines the role of an APRN (which includes certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse practitioners), as well as the six population foci in which an APRN may choose to be educated".....