Nurse Practitioner History & Milestones
This nurse and physician co-founded the first NP training program in 1965 at the University of Colorado.
Who are Loretta Ford and Henry Silver?
This NP role specializes in primary care for adults and older adults.
What is an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP (AGPCNP)?
This umbrella acronym covers NPs, CRNAs, CNMs, and CNSs.
What is APRN (Advanced Practice Registered Nurse)?
This term describes a practice environment where NPs can evaluate, diagnose, and prescribe independently, without physician oversight.
What is Full Practice Authority?
Known as the "mother of modern nursing," she used statistics to improve patient care during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This was the first licensed NP role, established in 1965.
What is the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP)?
This NP role specializes in the care of acutely, critically, or chronically ill children.
What is a Pediatric Acute Care NP (PNP-AC)?
NPs can earn board certification through one of two major credentialing bodies — name either.
What is ANCC or AANP?
This is the leading national professional organization advocating for NPs.
What is the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)?
Alongside a physician, she co-founded the first NP program in 1965 — making her the "founder of the NP role.
Who is Loretta Ford?
This advanced practice nursing role, with roots dating back to the Civil War era, is considered the first example of advanced practice nursing.
What is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)?
This NP role provides primary care across the entire lifespan, from infants to the elderly.
What is a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)?
This acronym refers to the terminal practice doctorate many NPs now pursue.
What is a DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice)?
This is the number of hours must a NP practice in NYS before they can enter into a collaborative practice agreement.
3600
This nurse founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
In this decade, the AACN first called for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) to become the standard entry degree for advanced practice.
What is the 2000s?
This NP role focuses exclusively on mental health and psychiatric care across the lifespan.
What is a Psychiatric Mental Health NP (PMHNP)?
This term describes the legal boundaries defining what procedures and tasks an NP is permitted to perform.
What is Scope of Practice?
National NP Week is observed annually during this week in November.
What is November 10–16?
She became the first African American licensed nurse in the United States in 1879.
Who is Mary Mahoney?
This nurse founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925, pioneering nurse-midwifery in the U.S.
Who is Mary Breckinridge?
This NP role manages acutely ill adults and older adults, often in ICU settings.
What is an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP (AGACNP)?
This organization accredits most NP education programs nationally.
What is the CCNE (Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education)?
This model, developed by the NCSBN, standardizes APRN education, licensure, and certification across the four APRN roles.
What is the APRN Consensus Model?
Known as the "mother of psychiatric nursing," she developed the interpersonal relations theory.
Who is Hildegard Peplau?