Development and Implementation of an Academic-Practice Partnership for Nurse Practitioners in Rural Maryland

Since they serve both as effective primary and acute care providers for millions of people in the United States, APRNs are often looked to as the future of quality health care (Kurtzman & Barnow, 2017; Woo et al., 2017). Furthermore, national organizations such as the National Institutes of Heal...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inThe Maryland Nurse Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 14 - 15
Main Authors Akintade, Bimbola, Idzik, Shannon, Gourley, Bridgitte, Indenbaum-Bates, Keisha, Novak, Kristy, Hicks, Gary, Appleby, Tonya, Bullock, Lynn Marie, Moshonisiotis, Stella
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Linthicum Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc 01.10.2021
Subjects
Advanced practice nurses
Clinical medicine
Collaboration
Colleges & universities
Feedback
Gerontology
Grants
Health care
Hospital systems
Hospitals
Meetings
Mentors
Nurse practitioners
Nursing education
Rural areas
Students
United States > US
Maryland
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Since they serve both as effective primary and acute care providers for millions of people in the United States, APRNs are often looked to as the future of quality health care (Kurtzman & Barnow, 2017; Woo et al., 2017). Furthermore, national organizations such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have advocated not only for APRNs to be trained at the doctoral level but for the expansion of APRN training programs (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010; American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2004; National Institutes of Health [NIH], 2005). The overarching aim of this academic-practice partnership was to develop a training program that provided an infrastructure and capacity to clinically precept UMSON APRN students at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Hospital System (UM UCH). The advisory board consisted of faculty representatives from the Family NP, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care, and Adult-Gerontology primary care programs, a staff representative from the Office of Graduate Clinical Placements, and the Grant Coordinator from UMSON.