Fitzgerald Health Education Associates

Click to View Previous Issues... Before Your NP Employment Search, Take Time for Reflection Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC Every year at this time, thousands of students complete their NP studies and embark on a new career. This article is dedicated to the NP Class of 2014. Best wishes for suc- cess and welcome to the profession! A n oft-quoted rule of job hunting is that the more competitive the employ- ment market and the more responsible the position, the more you need to prepare for the job search. With a wider variety of practice opportunities and in- creased responsibility for NPs, new NPs seeking a job must be well-prepared to find or create the right position. In addition, NPs need to develop sophisticated negotiation skills to maximize the compensation for their new position, as well as effectively leverage the clinical experience many NPs bring to the workplace. Few NPs, whether they are new to practice or are long-time clinicians, feel ade- quately prepared to take on the task of high-level employment negotiation. The following information has been developed to help NPs with this important pro- fessional journey. Before embarking on this next stage of your professional journey, set time aside for reflection. You might be tempted to skip this, believing you do not Inside Certification Q&A..............; 1 Review Courses ................ 5 Career Counsel ................. 6 Avoiding Malpractice ...... 11 News Briefs ..................... 14 Fitzgerald Health News .. 18 Live CE Programs Pharmacology Update July 15-16, 2014 Cape Cod, MA NP Essentials Skills & Workshop September 16-19 • NYC More CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 5 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Our "i" information icon is a clickable web link. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2014 Certification Q&A; NP Firsts Making a Difference in the Lives of the Vulnerable and Underserved An Interview with Joanne M. Pohl, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP JOANNE M. POHL, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, has more than 30 years of experience as a nurse practi- tioner. She directed the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Michigan School of Nursing from 1992 to 2001, and served as Associate Dean, Office for Community Partnerships, from 2001 to 2008. Dr. Pohl's scholarship has focused on health outcomes, informatics in safety net practices, and cost of care in nurse managed health centers (NMHCs), community-based primary care health- care services under the leadership of an advanced practice nurse. NMHCs are health centers (usually not-for-profit) that emphasize health education, health promotion, and disease prevention, and their target population is usually the underserved. She is a past president of the National Organiza- tion of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and is actively involved in policy related to primary care and NPs. Dr. Pohl has been in- volved in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project and cur- rently serves on the Advisory Board for the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care. A central focus of Dr. Pohl's life has been to make a difference in the lives of others, especially those who are vulnerable and underserved. "Loretta Ford has used this quote, and it really fits who I am so she sent it to me," says Dr. Pohl. " 'Be ashamed to die if you haven't done something for humanity.' " Tell us a bit about your "firsts." One of my greatest firsts was to be the first recipient of the Loretta C. Ford Award Inside NP Firsts ........................... 1 Certification Q&A..............; 9 Review Courses............... 12 Avoiding Malpractice ...... 13 News Briefs ..................... 18 Live CE Programs Pharmacology Update July 15-16, 2014 Cape Cod, MA NP Essentials Skills & Workshop September 16-19 • NYC More CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 12 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Our "i" information icon is a clickable web link. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2014 Joanne M. Pohl, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP Professor Emerita The University of Michigan School of Nursing Ann Arbor, MI NP Firsts A Pioneer Spirit for the NP Profession An Interview with Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN ONE OF THE NP profession's true pioneers, Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN, has provided major leadership in the NP profession though her service as president of both the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and the Amer- ican College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), Director of Marketing and Corporate Relations for ACNP, and most recently as founder and president of the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation (NPHF). NPHF's mission is to improve the health status and quality of care for all through NP innovations in re- search, education, health policy, service, and phi- lanthropy. She speaks nationally and internationally about NP professional issues. Ms. Zimmer has practiced in the areas of adult health, women's health, and family practice and is a part-time faculty member in the Family Nurse Prac- titioner-Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Seattle. She chaired NONPF's Education Committee, which authored Advanced Nursing Practice: Nurse Practitioner Curriculum Guidelines, a publication that pro- vided the first national standards for NP education. Ms. Zimmer received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Rochester School of Nursing, and she was selected by the US Public Health Serv- ice (PHS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a Primary Care Policy Fellow. In recognition of her contributions to nursing, in 2012 Ms. Zimmer received the Loretta C. Ford Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Nurse Practitioner Symposium. She was awarded the first NONPF Outstanding Nurse Practitioner Educator Award in recognition of her work on the Advanced Nursing Practice: Nurse Practitioner Curriculum Guidelines. Inside NP Firsts ........................... 1 FHEA News .................... 11 Certification Q&A; ............ 14 Review Courses............... 16 Avoiding Malpractice ...... 17 News Briefs ..................... 21 Live CE Programs One-Day Pharmacology Update September 10, 2014 North Andover, MA NP Essentials Skills & Workshop September 16-19 • NYC More CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 16 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Our "i" information icon is a clickable web link. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2014 Phyllis Arn Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN President, Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation, Bellevue, WA June 2014 July 2014 May 2014 NP Firsts Dux Femina Facti! An Interview with Debra J. Barksdale, PhD, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN DEBRA J. BARKSDALE, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN, is nationally known for her work with nurse practitioner and diversity education and her re- search on stress, emotions, coping, and blood pres- sure in black American adults. In 2010 Dr. Barksdale became the first nurse to be appointed to the board of governors for the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 under President Barack Obama. She chairs the Engagement, Dissemination and Communication Committee and the PCORI Sci- entific Publications Committee. Dr. Barksdale was a US Department of Health and Human Services Pri- mary Health Care Policy fellow. She is the immedi- ate past president of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and previous- ly chaired the organization's research committee. Dr. Barksdale is also a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows 2011 Cohort. Dr. Barksdale is a volunteer family nurse practi- tioner at the Robert Nixon Clinic for the homeless in Chapel Hill. Certified as both a family and an adult NP, she received her PhD from the University of Michigan, where her specialty concentration was in Health Pro- motion and Risk Reduction with Cognates in Health Care Systems. Dr. Barksdale has a post-master's certificate in teaching from the University of Pennsylvania, a MSN/FNP from Howard University, and a BSN from the University of Virginia. Dr. Barksdale is also a certified nurse educator and is a fellow of the American Asso- ciation of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nursing. Inside NP Firsts ........................... 1 Certification Q&A..............; 7 Review Courses ................ 9 Avoiding Malpractice ...... 10 News Briefs ..................... 15 Live CE Programs One-Day Pharmacology Update September 10, 2014 North Andover, MA NP Essentials Skills & Workshop September 16-19 • NYC More CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 9 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2014 Debra J. Barksdale, PhD, FNP- BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN Associate Professor, Director of DNP Program, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Immediate Past President, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties August 2014 NP Profiles Reaching New Heights as a Nurse Practitioner! An Interview with Stephanie Steiner, MSN, ACNP-C, CPNP-AC, CFRN WHILE PRACTICING emergency nursing in tertiary care/trauma centers, Stephanie Steiner, MSN, AC- NP-C, CPNP-AC, CFRN, often found herself working with critical care transport services personnel, and she became inspired by what they could accom- plish. She pursued further education to become a flight acute care nurse practitioner herself, and has dedicated herself to this important and never-dull practice for the past 8 years. Recently, Ms. Steiner also became the Director of the Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, where she directs the Flight Nursing Summer Camp, an annual educational ses- sion that is part of the Acute Care Nurse Practition- er Flight Nursing program. How did you become interested in Flight Nursing/Critical Care Transport? Nursing is very multifaceted. There are so many specialties in nursing. You can be practicing for 2 years in an emergency department (ED) and if you become restless with that, you can try a different specialty. That's how many flight nurses started; most of us have a solid back- ground in emergency nursing and critical care. Most of my experience was in emergency nursing—in busy tertiary care/trauma centers—where you get ex- posed to lots of different critical care transport programs on a regular basis. Inside NP Profiles ....................... 1 Certification Q&A..............; 8 Review Courses............... 10 Contraceptive Pearls....... 11 News Briefs ..................... 14 November Live Review Courses Dallas, TX, begins November 4, 2014 Pascagoula, MS, begins November 14, 2014 CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 10 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Also, look for our clickable video icon. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2014 Stephanie Steiner, MSN, ACNP-C, CPNP-AC, CFRN Director, Dorothy Ebersbach Academic Center for Flight Nursing Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Critical Care Transport Services Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio September 2015

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