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1 2016 CRITERIA FOR. evaluation . of NURSE. PRACTITIONER. PROGRAMS. 5th edition A Report of the National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education 1. 2. Table of Contents National Task Force on Quality NP 5. 6. 2016 Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs 7. 2016 Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner 9. I: Organization and 9. II: III: IV: Resources, Facilities, and V: 16. VI: Documentation Sample To obtain a printed copy or to download the document, contact: American Association of Colleges of Nursing National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties One Dupont Circle, NW, Ste.
2 530 1615 M Street, NW, Ste. 270. Washington, DC 20036 Washington, DC 20036. Tel: (202) 463-6930 Tel: (202) 289-8044. Fax: (202) 785-8320 Fax: (202) 289-8046. Electronic and printed copies of the document will be available from many of the organizations represented on the National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education and organizations endorsing the evaluation criteria. 3. 4. National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education 2015-2016. Task Force Co-Facilitators American Association of Colleges of Nursing National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Ruth M.
3 Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM, FAANP Joanne M. Pohl, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FAANP. Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Abigail Gerding, PhD, RN Nurses Marsal P. Stoll, EdD, MSN Evelyn Parrish, PhD, APRN. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners Certification Program Suzanne Staebler, APRN, DNP, NNP-BC. Richard F. (Rick) Meadows, RN, MS, NP-C, FAANP. National Association of Nurse Practitioners in American Association of Colleges of Nursing Women's Health Joan Stanley, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP Susan Kendig, JD, MSN, WHNP-BC, FAANP.
4 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses The National Certification Corporation for the Certification Corporation Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing Carol Hartigan, MA, RN Specialties Robin L. Bissinger, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, FAAN. American Nurses Credentialing Center Diane Thompkins, MS, RN National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Erika Borlie, MS. BSN, WHNP-BC, RN-C Shirlee Drayton-Brooks, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP. American Psychiatric Nurses Association Pediatric Nursing Certification Board Susie Adams, PhD, RN, PMHNP, FAANP Peg Harrison, MS, CPNP-PC, CAE.
5 Sattaria S. Dilks, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC. Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Staff Support to the National Task Force: Judy Verger, PhD, CRNP, CCRN Kathryn Werner, MPA; NONPF. Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education Jennifer Butlin, EdD. Susan Ruppert, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, ANP-BC, FNAP, FCCM, FAANP, FAAN. Task Force members are committed to ensuring excellence and stability in nurse practitioner education. We have worked in a collegial manner and have sought to build consensus in our process. Our major strength has been the desire to prepare highly qualified, competent nurse practitioner graduates.
6 We believe that this document advances that purpose. 5. Endorsements The National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education (NTF) is presently seeking organizational endorsement of the Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs.. Endorsement is defined as a general philosophical agreement with the evaluation criteria. The following organizations have endorsed the 5th edition of the Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs: . Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP).
7 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Certification Corporation American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA). Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (AFPNP). Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). International Society of Psychiatric Nurses (ISPN). National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP). National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH). National Certification Corporation for Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Specialties (NCC).
8 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF). Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB). 6. 2016 Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs, 5th edition Introduction Use of the evaluation Criteria The Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs The NTF reaffirms that the revised criteria serve the same offers an important resource for those involved in the purposes as the criteria of each preceding Edition . Starting educational preparation, credentialing, and licensing of with the first Edition released in 1997, the overarching intent nurse practitioners (NPs).
9 The evaluation criteria, combined was to establish nationally recognized criteria to evaluate NP. with accreditation standards for graduate programs in programs, in combination with other criteria for accreditation advanced practice nursing, provide a basis for evaluating of graduate programs. Based on these considerations, the NTF. all NP programs. The National Task Force on Quality Nurse recommends the following uses of the criteria: Practitioner Education (NTF), a multi-organizational collaboration, has a commitment to maintaining the high to assist in planning new NP programs.
10 Quality of NP education through sustained efforts of review as a complement to role, population foci, and specialty NP. and updates to the Criteria for evaluation of Nurse Practitioner competencies for program development;. Programs. This 5th edition of the document reflects the for self- evaluation of new and existing programs for periodic review process undertaken by the NTF to ensure that continuous quality improvement; and these national consensus-based evaluation standards remain to evaluate NP programs, in combination with a national relevant.
