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Pediatric NPs Set Record at NAPNAP Conference
April 16, 2010 9:31 AM
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Michelle Pronsati
I'm here at the annual conference of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), where pediatric NPs have set a new record for conference attendance. About 1,500 pediatric NPs are here in Chicago to network, earn CE credits and
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An Undesirable Top 10 List
February 22, 2010 9:45 AM
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Michelle Pronsati
While watching the Super Bowl a few weeks ago, my joy over the Saints’ final touchdown was dashed by a phone call. The facts were cloudy but heart wrenching: My son’s 12-year-old friend was in the hospital, apparently near death, as a result of two seizures
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A Tremendous Time
March 23, 2009 9:18 AM
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Michelle Pronsati
I just returned from NAPNAP's annual conference, where pediatric nurse practitioners were abuzz with possibilities for health care reform. Watch our blogs and Web site for more detail in coming weeks, but this morning I urge you to visit NAPNAP's Web
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Free Resources for NPs
June 2, 2008 1:30 PM
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Jennifer Ford
A couple of free resources that have recently become available are worth mentioning: First is PNP SOURCE, offered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). It is an online learning system and continuing education library that
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Pediatric "Care-A-Van" Staffed by NP
April 29, 2008 9:49 AM
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Jennifer Ford
In Chicago, nurse practitioner Patricia Carr staffs the city's largest mobile pediatric care unit. The Care-A-Van provides immunizations, physicals, hearing and vision screenings, pulmonary function testing, asthma assessments, childhood health promotions,
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Lip Sewing Trend?
March 24, 2008 11:05 AM
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Jill Rollet
ADVANCE editors know a lot, but apparently we don't know everything. (What else is new?) We got an e-mail message last week from an NP protesting an ad in our March print edition . (You might have trouble viewing the ad if you're not a subscriber to ADVANCE.)
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Kicks for Kids
November 26, 2007 9:48 AM
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Michelle Pronsati
Heather Riddle, a pediatric nurse practitioner in Florida, has taken the kind of bold step I love to read about. She decided to do something definitive to halt childhood obesity: She opened a fitness center for children. Her business, called Kicks for
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