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1974 – The American Nurses Association (ANA) developed the Council of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners 1980 – Over 200 NP programs were available, and the Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE) was established 1983 – Approximately 22‐24,000 NPs in the U.S. 1985 – The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) was established 1989 – Ninety percent of NP programs were master's or post‐ master's degree programs, publication of the Journal of the AANP began, and the first AANP National Conference was held in Philadelphia with 158 attendees
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Leaders stepped forward…
1994 – Mary Mundinger published landmark "Advanced Practice Nursing – Good Medicine for Physicians" in The New England Journal of Medicine, further supporting facts that NPs are cost‐ effective and high‐quality primary health care providers 1995 – American College of Nurse Practitioners was formed 1999 – Approximately 68,300 NPs in the U.S. 2000 – AANP Fellows program was established, and the first international NP conference was held 2004 – National Nurse Practitioner Week, held annually in November, was recognized in a proclamation by the U.S. Congress Approximately 106,000 NPs in the U.S.
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2010 – NP policy focused on health care reform, CMS regulations, Medicare payment, appropriations, Medical Home and state and local issues of importance to NPs and their patients. There were an estimated 140,000 NPs in the U.S. AANP worked with the White House Office of Health Reform to review primary care perspective on preventive care, access, coordinated primary care, quality of care, payment and the need to recognize all primary care providers as solutions to the health care crisis. The AANP Fellows program (FAANP) celebrated its 10th anniversary.
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