NP Associations
Please use Required readings and Resources below:
- Buppert, C. (2018). Nurse practitioner’s business practice and legal guide (6th ed.). Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
- Joel, L. A. (2018). Advanced practice nursing: Essentials for role development (4th ed). F.A. Davis Company.
· Refer back to the AANP standards of practice and the APRN specialty competency related to professional advancement and development initiatives needed by the student or the state, pulling everything together learned thus far about the state in which the student will practice.
Instructions for assignment-
Using the NP Association links in the Nurse Practice Interactive Map, identify your state NP association and the current political action initiatives they are currently working on. State professional organizations will have an advocacy team working on the state initiatives determined by the organization, so look for an advocacy tab, political action coalition (PAC) tab, or policy issues tab on the home website. How do these issues restrict your practice and how will your practice change if these issues are resolved? Identify your role in addressing these political movements. If your state NP association does not have any political action initiatives, look at either a national professional organization’s political initiatives, such as AANP, or a state health initiative, such as immunization rate, obesity rate, texting laws etc. and complete the same instructions.
Hyperlink for NP association https://www.massnurses.org
State of Practice-Massachussetts
