Welcome to the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation

The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation (NPHF) is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission of improving health status and quality of care through nurse practitioner innovations in clinical practice, education, research, health policy, and philanthropy. We provide resources that support the advancement of the nurse practitioner profession and focus our activities on making high quality healthcare accessible in the United States and globally.

NPHF's goals are to: 

• Enhance nurse practitioner leadership in healthcare
• Promote access to high quality care
• Foster innovative interprofessional collaboration
• Eliminate health disparities
• Promote research to improve health outcomes
• Facilitate policy analysis to improve health outcomes and care delivery

Enjoy exploring our website and feel free to send us your questions and comments. 

 The Proctor & Gamble Endowed Scholarship in
Community Service 

 The Proctor & Gamble Endowed Scholarship in 
Gastroenterology 

 

 

FREE EDUCATION for NPs!

 

Pain Management and Opioids: A Patient Centered Approach 

2 hr CE now live on MYCME

Speaker: Wendy Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP

Advanced practice nurses and Registered Nurses will increase their knowledge of the latest evidence for understanding pain management and opioids and how to apply that information to their practices using a patient centered approach to improve their patient outcomes. 

Click here to Register for this FREE Session

 

Harnessing the Power of the Arts in End-of-life Care

This unique, moving elearning course showcases the use of the Arts as a bridge to bring people together at the end-of-life. Through proignant stories, poems, video clips, sculpture, and meaningful art forms learners see how the Arts can be used as a powerful clincal therapeutic tool. The perspectives of diverse artists, folklorists, storytellers, and tradition bearers highlight the role of the Arts in providing culturally sensitive end-of-life care to patients and their families, enhancing the trust between patients, families, and the healthcare team. 

The course conveys the key elements of cultural awareness, knowledge, skills and humility to achieve more culturally sensitive, individualized and meaningful end-of-life care.  It introduces the Arts as a critical tool for supporting patients' and families' beliefs, traditions, and customs. 

To access this course click on link: https://www.mycme.com/courses/harnessing-the-power-of-the-arts-in-end-of-life-care-8825

End-of-Life Toolkit

The End-of-life Toolkit is a set of resources on death and dying, geared to both health professionals and the public. It contains links to textbooks, stories, poems, cultural perspectives on death and dying, as well as compelling video clips, expamples of various art forms, and "how to" information to create various types of memorials when an individual passes away. To access click: FINAL-Toolkit-6-20-2023.pdf

 

NPHF Continues Partnership with Derm for Primary Care®

The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation (NPHF) is pleased to continue our partnership with Derm for Primary Care®, a digital learning platform developed for primary care providers where you will learn how to identify, diagnose and treat common skin conditions that routinely present in a primary care practice. Packed with photos and videos with text and audio, these courses provide clinical scenarios demonstrating how to develop treatment plans for a variety of dermatologic conditions. In addition, you will learn how to do top dermatologic office diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with step-by-step, easy-to-follow videos (e.g. skin biopsies, cryosurgery).

Develop or improve upon a skill set that few of your peers have. Derm for Primary Care® is used in NP training programs across the country and by advanced practice nurses alike. These dermatology courses improve diagnostic and treatment skills, allowing Nurse Practitioners, nurses and other members of the healthcare team to treat their patients, rather than referring them to a specialist. Preview a course by clicking here

Take advantage of a discount offered exclusively for NPHF learners. Enter the code NPHF20 when you register for a course at Derm for Primary Care and you’ll receive a 10% discount on your order.

Be sure to share this information with your NP and RN colleagues as the NPHF strives to bring you high quality educational opportunities that will enhance your clinical practice. 

 

NPHF Mourns the Death of Dr. Loretta Ford

NPHF President Phyllis Zimmer was a long-time friend of the co-founder of the nurse practitioner role, Dr. Loretta Ford. NPHF recognizes Dr. Ford's leadership, passion for nursing, contributions to healthcare, and vision in conceptualizing the NP role in the US and globally. We miss you, Lee!