NAPNAP Update
Article Outline
- Leadership/association development
- Education
- Continuing education opportunities
- Research/scholarship
- Practice
- Advocacy
- Collaboration & partnerships
Mikki Meadows-Oliver, MSN, CPNP
Yale University School of Nursing
Children’s Environmental Health Program
Yale New Haven Hospital
Hamden, Connecticut
Leadership/association development
The Fall Executive Board meeting was held at the NAPNAP headquarters in Cherry Hill, NJ, on November 3–4, 2006. The Executive Board participated in Strategic Planning activities to further the mission of NAPNAP. Executive Board members discussed reimbursement issues affecting pediatric nurse practitioners and reviewed the Breastfeeding and Access to Care position statements. NAPNAP’s financial position and the preliminary budget for FY2007–2008 were also reviewed.
Education
Annual Conference
NAPNAP’s 28th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care: Rediscovering the Magic will be held March 21–24, 2007, at Disney’s Coronado Spring’s Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL (Pre-Conference Day: March 20, 2007). On-line registration is now available at www.napnap.org. Registration brochures for the upcoming conference were also mailed to all members. We hope to see you there to experience all the magic that Florida has to offer. Register Now!! Pre-conference and popular courses are filling quickly.
Book your hotel rooms early. Disney’s Coronado Spring’s Resort is a popular destination and the NAPNAP block of rooms are going fast!!!
Roundtable Discussions
Please consider serving as a roundtable discussion leader. You do not need to be an expert in the topic to participate—just have an interest in learning and sharing information with your colleagues. Continuing education credits are available and the registration fee for the roundtable is waived for facilitators. If interested, please contact Dolores Jones at djones@napnap.org. Please indicate your choice of topic and include a brief biographical statement (1 paragraph maximum) of your background.
The topics for the 28th Annual Conference are as follows:
Marketing Strategies That Work
Genetics: Impact on Pediatric Practice
Specialty Care Practice: Sharing Experiences
Alternative Therapies: Do You Recommend Them?
Retail Based Health Care: Is This Where Health Care Is Heading?
The Challenge of Completing a Well Child Visit With Office Practice Time Restraints
Palliative Care: What Is the Acute Care PNPs Role?
Hospital Rounds: The Acute Care PNP Experience
VIP (Volunteers: Interested and Participating) Needed
Get more involved in the conference, meet new people, and network by serving as a VIP. VIPs are needed to assist with monitoring education sessions, audiovisual assistance, speaker instructions, and other responsibilities. If interested, please mark the appropriate box on your conference registration form.
Future Annual Conferences
29th Annual Conference
April 14–17, 2008, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN (Pre-Conference Day: April 13, 2008).
30th Annual Conference
March 19–22, 2009, Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, CA (Pre-Conference Day: March 18, 2009).
Continuing education opportunities
Highlights of the NAPNAP 27th Annual Conference
(1.5 contact hours/0.3 pharmacology hours) This educational opportunity consists of six separate articles summarized from the 2006 conference in Washington, DC. Please visit www.napnap.org to participate in this program. The continuing education opportunities may be found under the “Education” tab. This opportunity is good through May 31, 2007.
Other continuing education opportunities can also be found at www.napnap.org, such as, Improving Immunization: Meeting Today’s Challenges; What’s on the Horizon? Understanding the Disease Burden and Rising to the Challenge of Preventing Rotavirus; and Pediatric Acid Reflux: Diagnosis, Associated Conditions, and Therapy.
Research/scholarship
NAPNAP Foundation Research Grant
To promote nursing research, the NAPNAP Foundation, Inc., will provide funding up to $2,500 to two NAPNAP members to support research projects. Proposals are reviewed by the NAPNAP Foundation Board of Directors and the selection of grants is made on a competitive basis. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2007. For more information and for applications, visit the NAPNAP National Office website at www.napnap.org.
Graduate Student Research Award
The NAPNAP Foundation is pleased to offer a 1-year award of $1,000 to support research by graduate students currently enrolled in a pediatric nurse practitioner program. This award is intended to encourage graduate students, who are current NAPNAP members, to participate in the research process and to stimulate interest in research regarding children and their families. The deadline for applications available online at www.napnap.org, is April 1, 2007.
Practice
National Provider Identifier (NPI): Important Information for all PNPs
The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated the adoption of a standard unique identifier for health care providers. The National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) collects identifying information on health care providers and assigns each a unique national provider identifier (NPI).
All HIPAA-covered health care providers, whether they are individuals or organizations, must obtain an NPI for use to identify themselves in HIPAA standard transactions. Once enumerated, a provider’s NPI will not change. The NPI remains with the provider regardless of job or location changes.
HIPAA covered entities, such as providers completing electronic transactions, health care clearinghouses, and large health plans, must use only the NPI to identify covered health care providers in standard transactions by May 23, 2007. Small health plans must use only the NPI by May 23, 2008.
You may apply for an NPI in one of three ways:
Advocacy
Arent Fox continues to provide legislative and policy representation to NAPNAP. Their current legislative and monitoring activities focus on: “Transparency” legislation and issues related to Medicaid. Arent Fox also prepares the legislative e-news “Inside the Beltway,” which summarizes key legislations and provides insights into Washington politics for NAPNAP members.
Collaboration & partnerships
Baby Steps Magazine
NAPNAP members are encouraged to sign up for copies of Baby Steps to distribute to new parents in their practice. Members can receive subscriptions by visiting www.ivillagepubs.com.
Kids Health Matters
Through Kids Health Matters, NAPNAP provides parents and children with proper guidance to build in children a strong foundation for active, healthy productive lives. You should have already received two shipments of Kids Health Matters. If you are not currently receiving this informative magazine for your patients and their families, please visit the NAPNAP National Office website for more information on subscribing (www.napnap.org).
PII: S0891-5245(06)00689-4
doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2006.11.002