OAAPN Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2020
OAAPN Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2020 A Conversation with Joscelyn Greaves, OAAPN President What are some of the highlights from 2019, both for APRNs as a profession and OAAPN as an organization? For OAAPN, of course, the most significant thing...
Ohio’s Advanced Practice Nurses Applaud Representative Tom Brinkman’s Introduction of Legislation to Expand Access to Health Care
The Ohio Association of Advanced Practice Nurses (OAAPN) applauds Rep. Tom Brinkman (R-Mt. Lookout) on the introduction of Substitute House Bill 177 (Sub. H.B. 177), the Better Access, Better Care Act. This legislation aims to retire Ohio’s outdated regulatory...
Celebrating National CRNA Week
National CRNA Week celebrates the nearly 54,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and student registered nurse anesthetists who safely and cost-effectively provide more than 49 million anesthetics each year. Established by the American Association of...
Advanced Practice Registered Nursing: A Growing Profession
A Growing Profession According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job outlook for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), including nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives, is projected to grow 26 percent from 2018 to 2028, much...
AANP and 86 Nurse Practitioner Organizations Applaud Executive Order on Medicare
Profession Urges Swift Implementation of Rule to Protect and Improve Medicare for Seniors Press Release originally publish by The American Association of Nurse Practitioners Washington D.C. — The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), joined by 86...
Meet Amazing APRN Sara Pease
Amazing APRN Sara Pease Sara currently serves as Secretary for the Ohio Association of Advanced Practice Nurses. She is also a member of AANP, ASAM and the National Nurse Led Consortium. She most recently created the Steubenville Chapter for OAAPN! After graduating...
5 Ways to Support OAAPN in 2020
OAAPN and the profession of Advanced Practice Nursing enjoyed a great year in 2019, and we are positioned to go further in 2020. As we move into the new year OAAPN remains focused on our primary goal of seeing the passage of HB 177, which supports the removal of the...
Get to Know Your APRN
An Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) is a nurse who has obtained at least a master’s degree in nursing. Within the category of APRNs are specialty areas that include nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists,...