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Click to View Previous Issues... NP Firsts Dux Femina Facti! A n Interview with Debra J. Barksdale, PhD, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN DE BRA J. BA RKSDALE , 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 b e appointed to the board of governors for the n ew 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 N urse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) and previous- l y 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 t he 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 N P Firsts ........................... 1 C ertification Q&A..............; 7 Review Courses ................ 9 Avoiding Malpractice ...... 10 News Briefs ..................... 15 L ive CE Programs One-Day Pharmacology Update September 10, 2014 N orth Andover, MA NP Essentials Skills & Workshop September 16-19 • NYC More CE Offerings Inside NP Certification Exam Review C ourse Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care A cute Care, Adult- G erontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care P sychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 9 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. F itzgerald 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 NP Profiles R eaching 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 s he 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 a lso 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 N ursing Summer Camp, an annual educational ses- s ion that is part of the Acute Care Nurse Practition- er Flight Nursing program. How did you become interested in Flight N ursing/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 s pecialty. 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. I nside N P Profiles ....................... 1 Certification Q&A..............; 8 Review Courses............... 10 C ontraceptive Pearls....... 11 News Briefs ..................... 14 N ovember Live Review Courses D allas, TX, begins November 4, 2014 Pascagoula, MS, begins November 14, 2014 C E Offerings Inside N P Certification Exam Review Course Tracks F amily, Adult-Gerontology, a nd Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care P ediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health C lick or see page 10 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. Also, look for our clickable video icon. F itzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2014 Stephanie Steiner, MSN, A CNP-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 C ritical Care Transport Services Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio SPECIAL COVERAGE: Joining Forces A Passion for Serving Military Families An Interview with Cindy Cooke, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP CINDY COOKE, D NP, FNP-C, FAANP, i s President-Elect of the American Associa- t ion of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She is a family nurse practitioner in the Pri- mary Care Clinic at Fox Army Health Center in Huntsville, AL, a clinic that cares for active duty and retired military members and their families. D r. Cooke's greatest passion is caring for mili- t ary families. This is reflected in her work as AANP's Representative to the White House for Joining Forces, an initiative that is designed to meet the unique health needs of service mem- bers, veterans, and their families. Dr. Cooke works d irectly with the Office of the First Lady on Join- ing Forces on an array of veteran-specific pro- grams and activities (see "Joining Forces to Support Military Families"). Among clinicians, NPs have taken a leading role in Joining Forces. Do you agree? The AANP is an active part of a collaborative effort with the White House's Joining Forces initiative. NPs are in a key position to care for our military, veterans, and their families as health care providers since we are educated to care for patients and families as a whole. We are leaders in a way that NPs are always looking for better ways to care for t he patients we serve. There are many members of the military back in their communities. The care they need is being delivered by civilian providers like NPs. We must be sure that the care they receive is as excellent as the service they have provided to our nation. Inside Joining Forces .................. 1 Certification Q&A; ............. 6 Review Courses ................ 9 Honor Flight ................... 10 NP Week ......................... 11 Malpractice .................... 14 Vaccination News ........... 17 N ews Briefs ..................... 20 2 015 Live Courses Clinical Pharmacology (5 3/4-day course) NP Essentials Skills and Workshop (4- or 2-day courses) Pharmacology Update (2-day course) The Art of Wound Repair (1-day course) NP Certification Exam Review Course Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, and Adult Primary Care A cute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care Pediatric Primary Care Psychiatric & Mental Health Women's Health Click or see page 9 L ook for b old orange text for clickable web links. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 978•794•8366 Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2014 Cindy Cooke, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP President-Elect, American Association of Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Clinic Fox Army Health Center Huntsville, AL September 2014 October 2014 August 2014 NP Firsts Leadership, Not Just Management An Interview with Gale Adcock, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP GA LE AD COCK , MSN, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, b ecame the first nurse practi- tioner to be elected to the North Carolina General Assembly when she was e lected on November 4, 2014, to North Carolina's House District 41. Before win- ning that seat in the state legislature, Ms. Adcock was the first NP elected to the Cary, North Caroli- n a, town council. Cary is a town of 150,000 known for its superb quality of life and is on many "Best O f " lists for being a great place to live and work. She was reelected in 2011 for another 4-year term on the town council. Following her reelection, the other members of the council elected her Mayor Pro Tem, so she is in her third year as the first NP t o be Mayor Pro Tem in Cary. Ms. Adcock is also the first NP to hold the posi- tion of Chief Health Officer at a major US corpora- tion. Ms. Adcock has held that position for over 20 years at SAS Institute, Inc., the world's largest pri- vately held software company, where she over- sees a staff of 58 health care providers—including physicians, NPs, lab technicians, pharmacists, psychologists, and nutritionists—who serve the company's 5400 Cary, NC, headquarters employees and their families with com- p rehensive primary care health services at the on-site health center. Twenty years ago when SAS decided to transition from an on-site urgent-care health center to one that provided free comprehensive primary care for all em- ployees and their families, it was a pioneering step. There were no models of how to run such a program. Ms. Adcock not only worked with an architect to h elp design the building renovations, she also helped create the primary care health center from the ground up, day-by-day, decision by decision. The center I nside NP Firsts ........................... 1 Certification Q&A............; 10 Review Courses............... 13 Malpractice .................... 15 News Briefs ..................... 19 FHEA in the News ......... 24 2015 Live Courses Clinical Pharmacology (5 3/4-day course) NP Essentials Skills and Workshop (4- or 2-day courses) Pharmacology Update (2-day course) The Art of Wound Repair ( 1-day course) NP Certification Exam Review C ourse Tracks Family, Adult-Gerontology, a nd Adult Primary Care Acute Care, Adult- Gerontology Acute Care P ediatric Primary Care P sychiatric & Mental Health W omen's Health Click or see page 13 Look for bold orange text f or clickable web links. Fitzgerald Health Education Associates fhea.com 1 F itzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. 9 78 •7 94 •8 366 Volume 14, Issue 11, November 2014 Gale Adcock, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP R epresentative-Elect, North Carolina House District 41 Chief Health Officer, SAS Institute, Inc. Cary, NC November 2014 Certification Q&A; Questions About Certification, Interviewing Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP, FAAN, DCC NPS AND STUDENTS often write to me for advice regarding certification as well as other issues they encounter as they launch their careers. Having helped more than 75,000 NPs achieve certification via my company, Fitzgerald Health Educa- tion Associates, Inc. I am always happy to answer such ques- tions. Below is a collection of answers to interesting questions about the NP certification exam and job interviews that were re- cently posed by your fellow NPs. CERTIFICATION I attended your NP exam re- view and I am scheduled to take the American Nurses Cre- dentialing Center (ANCC) exam review. Does the ANCC exam include ques- tion formats such as "select all that apply," ranking, and pictures? You should expect to see these types of questions if you take the ANCC exam. The Fitzgerald Health Education Associates review courses are suitable for all the certification exams, and they do incorporate the exam question styles that are found in the ANCC exams. When changes are made to guidelines, how long does it take for the new in- formation to show up on the certification exams? Changes to guidelines generally don't show up on the certification exam for at least 6 months after they are published. Whenever new guidelines come out, there is a transition period before they are integrated into any of the NP boards. Note that during such times of transition, questions usually will concentrate on the commonalities between two different sets of recommendations. Inside Certification Q&A; ............. 1 Psychiatric Consult ........... 5 R eview Courses ................ 6 Prescribing News ............. 9 Update: Tobacco Use ..... 13 News Briefs ..................... 15 Fitzgerald Faculty News ..21 M emorial ........................ 23 2015 Live Courses Clinical Pharmacology (5 3/4-day course) NP Essentials Skills and Workshop (4- or 2-day courses) Pharmacology Update (2-day course) The Art of Wound Repair (1-day course) 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 6 Look for bold orange text for clickable web links. 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