GAPNA eAlerts Archive
If you missed an eAlert, here's your chance to catch up. Check out the GAPNA e-Alerts Archive which features bi-monthly issues that contain relevant legislative news, Chapter events, timely topics of interest.
5.4 FREE Contact Hours - No Catch!
We are pleased to offer you 5.4 free contact hours from 5 different sessions captured at a variety of specialty nursing associations' meetings! Because GAPNA shares its headquarters with several other specialty nursing associations, they all decided to team up to give you a little something extra as a thank you for your GAPNA membership.
FREE Webinar: Keystone Center for Geriatric Care and Education
Beyond the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit, January 25, 2018, 4-5 PM EST. The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) remains an underutilized copay-free visit available to patients: in 2014, only 15% of eligible patients received an AWV. Despite this overall underutilization, approximately 40% of primary care clinicians reported performing an AWV in 2014.
We Have A Seat Reserved For YOU!
The APRN Gerontological Specialist Certification Exam. The eligibly requirements have been determined. The exam blueprint has been finalized. The exam questions have been completed. Now... Take the Exam! Where: Boston Park Plaza, Boston, MA. When: Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm.
Topic Focused CNE Packages!
Now available in the GAPNA Online Library. Topics include: Disease Management; Pharmacology; General Practice Topics for the Nurse Practitioner - from the 2017 GAPNA Annual Conference - all with a savings of 50% for members!
Spring GAPNA Newsletter Online
Could it be Spring already? Wishful thinking! But the GAPNA Spring Newsletter is available now. Inside is a Happy New Year greeting from GAPNA President Michelle Moccia; a new Rising Star (hint the Great Lakes Chapter is still beaming); a social media toolkit from Melissa Batchelor-Murphy, and a bunch of cool places to explore in Boston at the Pharam Conference in March!
FEBRUARY is American Heart Month
American Heart Month, a federally designated event, is an ideal time to remind Americans to focus on their hearts and encourage them to get their families, friends and communities involved.
Older Americans Are Sicker and Face More Financial Barriers to Health Care
New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - A survey of adults ages 65 and older in 11 countries found U.S. respondents were sicker than their counterparts in other countries and, despite universal coverage under Medicare, faced more financial barriers to health care.
Helen Burns: GAPNA's Spring Rising Star!
From the GAPNA Newsletter - Helen Burns, MSN, ANP-BC, AGN-BC, AOCNP, Great Lakes Chapter in Michigan, is GAPNA's latest Rising Star. Helen has been a member of GAPNA for 4 years because she was inspired by our current national President, Michelle Moccia. “Every nursing position I’ve ever held has involved working with older adults in some capacity,” said Helen...
Studies Quantify Increase in Primary Care Services Provided by Nonphysicians
New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) have increasingly provided primary care treatment services to Medicare patients over the past decade, according to recent studies: A study by Xue et al. (2017) published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 8(4), 256-263,...