VCNP Fun Facts
NP Firsts in VA
VCNP History
Prescriptive Authority
VCNP Today
100
The month VCNP scholarships are awarded.
What is September?
100
This was the first university to offer a nurse practitioner program in Virginia.
What is the University of Virginia?
100
The Hotel Roanoke, The Williamsburg Lodge, The Reston Hyatt, The Homestead.
What are VCNP State Conference venues?
100
The year prescriptive authority went into effect for NPs in Virginia.
What is 1993?
100
The smallest geographic region of VCNP.
What is Tidewater?
200
The Keynote Speaker at our conference this year.
Who is Cynthia Romero?
200
This was the year that the first nurse practitioner program was offered in Virginia
What is 1971?
200
The service project sponsored by VCNP to promote early literacy.
What is Reach Out and Read?
200
NPs in Virginia are required to have a separate prescriptive agreement-true or false.
What is false?
200
The branding slogan for VCNP.
What is "Nurse Practitioners: Partner's for a Healthier Tomorrow"?
300
The month National NP Week is celebrated.
What is November?
300
This university offered the first pediatric nurse practitioner program in Virginia in 1977.
What is Virginia Commonwealth University?
300
The year VCNP launched its web site.
What is 1999?
300
The number of pharmacology contact hours needed to renew a nurse practitioner prescriptive authority license.
What is 8 contact hours per biennium?
300
The approximate number of VCNP members rounded to the closest hundred.
What is 1600?
400
The number of regions in VCNP.
What is 11?
400
The first person to be certified as a nurse practitioner in Virginia.
Who was Barbara Walker.
400
The first NP to sit on the Virginia Board of Nursing.
Who is Judy Collins.
400
A license to prescribe number is required to be on the printed or electronic prescription for nurse practitioners-true or false.
What is false?
400
The most recent VCNP region to be formed.
What is Peninsula region?
500
Six of the 9 schools that offer nurse practitioner programs in Virginia.
What is Virgininia Commonwealth University, Old Dominion University, Marymount University, Shenandoah University, George Mason University, James Madison University, Radford University, Hampton University, and University of Virginia?
500
The city where 6 NPs met with the intention of starting a professional organization in 1974.
What is Norfolk?
500
The Virginia legislative bill number that changed NP statutes in 2012.
What is HB346?
500
The year that schedule II authority started in Virginia for nurse practitioners.
What is 2006?
500
Number of members on the VCNP State Board of Directors.
What is 22?
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