Nurse practitioners' experiences of polypharmacy in community-dwelling older adults.

Background: Numerous studies have defined polypharmacy and its impact on health. The literature is also rich in studies documenting the benefits of care provided by nurse practitioners (NPs). A gap in research exists at the intersection of the value of NPs in caring for older adults and their management of polypharmacy.

Professional Conference Poster Presentation: Innovative Professional Development Assignment in Nurse Practitioner Education.

Background: This innovative assignment converted a traditional presentation to an assignment that addressed several National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties competencies and the growing trend toward nurse practitioner professional advancement models.

Method: The professional conference poster assignment spanned two semesters. The first semester assignment included a focused literature review and abstract development.

Precepting nurse practitioner students in the graduate nurse education demonstration: A cross-sectional analysis of the preceptor experience.

Background: The Graduate Nurse Education (GNE) Demonstration seeks to increase the number of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in clinical practice. With the overall increase in APRN programs and, particularly, enrollment in nurse practitioner (NP) programs, there is growing competition among students to secure quality clinical precepting experiences.

Purpose: This study describes NPs' and physicians' experiences with precepting APRN students within the Greater Philadelphia GNE Consortium.

Development of Prelicensure Nursing Competencies in Caring for People With Disabilities Through Delphi Methodology.

Background: People with disabilities (PWDs) experience significant health disparities. The complex experience of disability requires that nurses are adequately and deliberately prepared to care for PWDs. However, there are no recognized nursing competencies to direct education and care.

After-hours/on-call experience during primary care nurse practitioner education utilizing standard scenarios and simulated patients.

Background And Purpose: Few nurse practitioner (NP) programs include an after-hours/on-call component in their clinical preparation of NP students. This role is expected in many primary and specialty care practices, and is one that students feel unprepared to competently navigate.

Methods: Utilizing simulated callers as patients or parents, NP students participated in a simulated after-hours/on-call experience that included receiving the call, managing the patient, and submitting documentation of the encounter.

Inclusion of disability-related content in nurse practitioner curricula.

Purpose: To examine the integration of disability-content in a national sample of nurse practitioner curricula.

Data Sources: Responses of National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) members to an online 34-item survey designed to assess disability-related content included in nurse practitioner (NP) curricula; populations of people with disabilities addressed; models of disability; and resources used to teach about disability, facilitators and barriers to inclusion of disability, and respondents' assessment of the adequacy of coverage of disability in their programs. A survey used previously to assess integration of disability content in undergraduate nursing programs was modified to make it relevant to NP curricula.

Diethylstilbestrol exposure: it's still an issue.

Persons exposed to diethylstilbestrol have higher risks of certain health problems. Nurses have an important role in identifying women who received diethylstilbestrol while pregnant and the children of those pregnancies. Identification of these persons allows for risk analysis and counseling, and assists in appropriate referrals for further evaluation and treatment.