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. 

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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. 

Click here to Register for this FREE CE Session

 

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The Toolkit is a complimentary, easily accessible resource that will help you work more effectively with dying patients and their families/friends. Visit the End-of-Life Toolkit, and learn how to use the Arts to ease the dying process and/or assist those who are grieving a loss.  Many of the resources in the Toolkit will touch your heart, as well as to provide comfort and solace.
 

Whether you are a healthcare professional, a hospice worker, a caregiver, someone who is grieving the loss of a family member or friend, or even confronting your own death, the Toolkit customizes resources and ideas for you. It showcases videoclips, stories, music/dance, poetry, a variety of art forms, and offers suggestions for making the dying process more person-centered and culturally appropriate. 
 

The Toolkit also leads you to the online free accredited course: Harnessing the Power of the Arts for End-of-Life Care (1.75 CEs). This elearning course conveys the key elements of cultural awareness, skills, and humility to acheive more culturally relevent and meaningful end-of-life care. 

Go To: https://citylore.org/end-of-life-tool-kit/

Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

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FREE EDUCATION for NPs!

Newly updated in 2026- 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

 

 

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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!