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Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress continue to advance legislation combating the opioid epidemic. As nurse leaders, you know firsthand the devastation and human suffering caused by the opioid epidemic. Urge your legislators to co-sponsor the Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act and to support its consideration when the full House and Senate take up their respective opioid bills/packages.

From the GAPNA Newsletter > Committee/Sig News - AARP reached out to the GAPNA Health Affairs Committee asking for help identifying NPs willing to provide testimony to support the CARE Act in six states where bills were introduced in 2018. GAPNA and AARP shared information in those key states and GAPNA member, Julie Stanik-Hutt, took an active role in advocacy. 

From the Kaiser Health News Original Stories: Navigating Aging - Retaining the ability to get up and about easily — to walk across a parking lot, climb a set of stairs, rise from a chair and maintain balance — is an under-appreciated component of good health in later life.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO APPLY - June 18, 2018, 11:59 PM, EASTERN!  Now is the time to nominate a colleague or yourself! The awards are: the- Chapter Excellence Award, Special Interest Group Excellence Award, Excellence in Clinical Practice Award, Excellence in Community Service Award, Excellence in Education Award, Excellence in Leadership Award, and Excellence in Research Award.

The Pharmacology Category of the GAPNA Online Library includes drug updates, prescriptive practices, therapeutic uses of drugs, and specific drug information including opioids. Find out more about it...

The annual election for 2018-2019 GAPNA Board of Directors was May 14 through May 26, 2018. New officers take office at the Annual Business Meeting at the conclusion of the Annual Conference. Meet the winners and read about them!

The Liberty (Pennsylvania) Chapter of GAPNA is growing and now has a Pittsburgh group that is growing under the directorship of our Vice President, Donna Falcone, DNP! The Board is asking for volunteers to nominate or self-nominate GAPNA members...

New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - While the rate of hospitalizations (excluding pregnancies and newborns) declined for all age groups from 2000 to 2015, the biggest drop (25%) occurred among patients 65 and older.

The 2018 recipient of the Loretta C. Ford Award for Advancement of the Nurse Practitioner Role in Health Care is Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, and will be honored at the 2018 FAANP Induction Ceremony on Thursday, June 28, during the AANP 2018 National Conference in Denver.

We ask that you please reach out to your Representatives and urge them to support H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act – particularly, Section 303. This section will make permanent the authorization, originally granted in CARA, for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe medication assisted treatments (MATs) and will authorize certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists and nurse anesthetists to prescribe MATs for a five-year period.