PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL CARE FOR ALL AGES, 

CONNECTING AS A COMMUNITY TO LEAD HEALTHCARE

 

The National Association of Family Nurse Practitioners (NAFNP) represents and serves all Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP.)  We commit to:

  • Advocate for FNPs, including full scope of practice nationwide

  • Provide clarity and consistency for FNP  education

  • Provide guidance and mentoring for new graduate FNPs 

  • Enhance practice support for experienced FNPs

  • Strengthen leadership opportunities for FNPs

  • Establish networking among FNPs nationwide

  • Establish standards for educational programs

  • Represent FNPs in development of practice-based guidelines and educational standards

  • Support continuing education and training

  • Amplify FNP scholarship

  • Provide resources for international FNP program development

  • Develop innovative solutions to care delivery shortages, especially in primary care

Member Benefits

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Stay Current:

  • NAFNP website and blog
  • National-level committee opportunities
  • Bi-weekly newsletter
  • NAFNP Journal (2024)

 

Get Connected:

  • FNP-Connect online member community
  • Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) - Free for the first year!
  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Member Directory
  • State and Local Affiliates(2024)

 

Grow Professionally:

  • NAFNP Job Board
  • Conferences and meetings (2024)
  • Career Consulting/Mentoring
  • Leadership Opportunities
  • Continuing Education (2024)

 

Make a Difference:

  • Representation for FNPs in national, state and local policy discussions
  • Development of FNP leaders
  • Shape the future of the FNP profession

 

Get Involved:

  • Shape important work with Committee participation
  • Contribute to the NAFNP website, newsletter, blog, and Journal
  • Provide valuable insight as a content reviewer
  • Create or moderate an online community

 

Personal Development:
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Why NAFNP?

This is an age where representation matters.

Family Nurse Practitioners perform crucial roles across healthcare.  As highly-trained providers, you deliver significant value to the healthcare system overall and to your practice in particular.  Yet, for all of your abilities and contributions, you are not represented in policy decisions made about your profession.  Major decisions are being made about the practice and training of FNPs without FNP representation.  Make no mistake, all of the other NP specializations are represented, so why not FNPs?

How much time do you have in your day to take on the major challenges of the FNP profession? If you are like most FNPs, you don't get time to conduct scholarship, attend a professional conference or even to eat lunch, so there's just not time for taking on 'the system.' 

What would happen if there was an organization that worked to coordinate the individual contributions of many FNPs, each contributing according to their abilities and time?  With all of the experience, insight and passion each FNP brings to their role, this group would offer massive capabilities to drive change. 

That's why we're here.

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Family Nurse Practitioners make amazing contributions across the healthcare spectrum.  Tell us about the significant contributions an FNP in your orbit has made, whether to patients, staff, students, scholarship, industry or community.  Please share these remarkable accomplishments with us through the form below.  You submission may appear on our website, in a newsletter, or in another format.  Thank you for your contributions!

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Get involved with NAFNP

As a brand new association, NAFNP needs your insight and input!  To date, we have built the skeleton and some organs for this new body.  You can give it muscle and flesh.  You can help it move forward with your ideas, energy and input.  Click below to register for available volunteer opportunities.  Have an idea you don't see listed? Use the 'Volunteer Interest Detail' field to tell us about your idea.  

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