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NP Designation Helps Nurses Shape Their Careers with More Choices

Minority Nurse

Earning an advanced degree offers nurses immediate career benefits, including skills and knowledge they’ll apply to their work long before graduation. And because their experience and expertise were crucial to in-the-moment patient care scenarios, public awareness about nurse practitioners increased.

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Meet the New President of the AANP: Stephen A. Ferrara

Minority Nurse

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) welcomed Stephen A. Ferrara , DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, as the organization’s new president, taking the reigns from former AANP President April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN in late-June. I knew I wanted to work as a nurse practitioner early on.

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Nurses Spread the Word About Gun Safety

Nurse.com

Hallowell, PhD, APRN, PPCNP-BC, a pediatric nurse practitioner and associate professor at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, still remembers when her five-year-old son came home from his first day of kindergarten and asked if she wanted to know his school hiding place. Sunny Hallowell, RN Sunny G.