Member. What does it mean to you to be a member of NAP? Aside from believing in our mission, does it mean: paying dues; attending forum; participating/ presenting at forum; participating in committees; providing leadership; engaging with colleagues within and/or across academies?
Etymologically, when one adds the suffix “ship” to the end of a word, it indicates a state or a condition. Having members is essential, and the state or condition of membership, in other words, how members, collectively engage, is critical. Although the suffix “ship” is not related to a seagoing vessel, it creates a wonderful metaphor. Members create a vision and shape NAP, and the “ship” in member
ship
is what steers us to where we, the members, say we want to go. What our “ship” looks like, and its specifications, are up to us. Our “ship” is powered by our engagement.
NAP continues to shape itself through our membership. A recent example is the recommendation from our Interprofessional & Organization (aka I & O) Task Force, initially approved by the Executive Committee and scheduled this month for Council members' review and action, to resume having a Membership Committee with a consistent representative from each Academy. This will bring all Academy perspectives together on growing, sustaining and engaging members, by hearing our interprofessional colleagues’ answers to, “What does it mean to you to be a member of NAP?” Which, in turn, helps us as we recruit and nominate members to all our categories- Associate, Professional, and Fellow.
Our newest membership category in that of Professional Member. One thing we know for sure is that growing our Professional Members is a top priority. As you know, Professional Members are early career colleagues who have distinguished themselves and show excellent Fellow potential. Take a minute and close your eyes, let the faces appear of all those colleagues you could nominate for Professional Member, to your own Academy and across Academies. Then ask yourself, “What if”? Yes, what if each of us nominated two of these colleagues to be Professional Members? This kind of shaping would result in a very positive addition to membership. Hopefully, we can count on each other to have all hands on deck to meet this Professional Member drive challenge. Let’s envision a big enough “ship” to invite them all aboard!
Here’s to a fair wind and a following sea, for our NAP member
ship
.
All the best,
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NAP Class of 2020: Nominations Open
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Tips for Nominating
- Notify your colleague that you nominated them as a Distinguished Fellow or Professional Member.
- Assist them with their application materials - ensuring their application emphasizes their contributions to interprofessional and collaborative healthcare.
- Submit your nominations by September 1, 2019 for Class of 2020 Group C.
- Mark your calendar to attend the NAP Annual Meeting & Forum in San Diego on March 12-14, 2020 to celebrate the election of your colleague as a Fellow or Professional Member.
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Webinar Series on Collaborative Practice Models Concludes Today at 3:00 pm ET
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Join NAP for our final webinar in the series on successful collaborative practice models! This webinar will be 30 minutes in length with approximately 20 minutes of content and 10 minutes reserved for audience Q&A.
Building a culture for interprofessional collaborative practice in oral health
Monday, June 3 from 3:00 – 3:30 pm ET
Presented by Anita Glicken
Historically, U.S. health care systems divorced the “mouth from the body”, perpetuating medical and dental silos that fragment patient care. New collaborative practice models refocus our attention on whole person care emphasizing prevention, value and population health. Preparing an interprofessional workforce for integrated oral health care, however, requires shared understanding along with and new knowledge and skills. Anita Glicken, Executive Director of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health will discuss strategies, tools and resources that are creating system-wide change by building collaborative models for oral health integration in primary care education and practice.
The National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH) is a foundation-funded, multi-year effort founded in 2009 to ensure that all patients have access to oral health services and referrals as a standard of primary care. As a systems change initiative, NIIOH provides backbone support to a consortium of funders, health professionals and national organizations focused on putting the mouth back in the body with oral health considered an essential component of whole person care.
If you were unable to attend the first two webinars which each featured a diverse collaborative practice model, you can find their recordings on the
NAP website.
Pediatric Interprofessional Collaborative Models: Purpose, Design, and Application
Tuesday, May 7 from 1:00 – 1:30 pm ET
Presented by Bob Fifer
The Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research Center (MIPERC) Collaborative Practice Model
Monday, May 20 from 3:00 – 3:30 pm ET
Presented by Denise Ludwig, Brenda Pawl, Jean Nagelkerk, and Jeff Trytko
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12
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Annual Midwest Interprofessional Practice Education and Research Center Conference
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The Next Wave: Embedding IPE Initiatives within Health Professions, Education, and Practice Settings
Registration is open and the Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center (MIPERC) Conference is accepting abstracts for poster and podium presentations. The abstract deadline is
June 30, 2019.
Speakers include:
- Barbara Brandt, PhD, Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education; Associate Vice President for Education, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota.
- Peter Hahn, MD, MBA, President and CEO, Metro Health | University of Michigan Health
- Susan Hanrahan, PhD, Professor of Physical Therapy and Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, Arkansas State University
- Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
2019 MIPERC Conference Objectives:
- Discuss the impact, clinical benefits, and costs of IPCP environments.
- Discuss models and approaches for embedding IPCP and IPE initiatives into practice settings involving academic-service partnerships.
- Describe what lessons have been learned by faculty and healthcare administrators as they have collaborated to establish IPCP environments involving health profession students and professional healthcare staff.
- Describe the preparation needed to assist organizations as they consider establishing IPCP environments, including leveraging and navigating power structures, relationship building, and transformation of interactional barriers.
- Cite successes for mutually beneficial, enduring academic-community agency alliances, which extend beyond student placements.
The mission of MIPERC is to identify ways that the members can develop collaborative, innovative, and interprofessional initiatives across disciplines, learning institutions, and health care systems. The conference takes place on Grand Valley State University’s downtown campus at the Richard M. DeVos Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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NAP Social Media Training Video
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Are you interested in keeping up with NAP, other NAP members, and other interprofessional organizations on social media but not sure how to get started? Look no further! We’ve put together the NAP Social Media Training Video to teach you how to create and use social media accounts. Platforms featured include Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Your Input is Vital: Add to the NAP Survey Registry
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Don't forget to complete the pilot survey put together by the NAP Strategic Plan IPE/IPCP Shared Work Group! The group has developed a survey tool and
registry
for information sharing, new research initiatives, replication and shared dissemination of evidence-based outcomes from interprofessional work. The registry will be used to collect information you wish to share with other NAP members to encourage collaboration and resource sharing across Academies. As a NAP member, you are invited to participate! Information will then be posted to the File Library folders of the
Members community
within
myNAP
, and then the registry can be accessed using your NAP login information. Thank you in advance!
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Get To Know Your NAP Council
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Joanne Singleton, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CNL, Vice President of Membership
Professional Title:
Professor
Year Inducted as a NAP Fellow:
2001
Academy:
Nursing
Education:
2017, U Denver Graduate School of Social Work, Certificate Animals & Human Health 1994, 1993, Adelphi University, PhD, Nursing Research & Post- Master’s FNP 1989, Regents College, The University of the State of New York, BSN 1986, The New School for Social Research, MA, Management 1982, Marymount Manhattan College, BA, Psychology 1973, St. Clare’s Hospital of Nursing, Diploma, Nursing
Number One Reason you Volunteer for NAP:
I believe in our mission.
Fun Fact:
From my work with Canines Assisting in Health I am getting good at dog grooming.
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