Certification for the Pediatric Nurse Associate

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-588
Author(s):  
Louis I. Hochheiser
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Recent Letter ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

The recent letter to Pediatric Nurse Associates and members of the American Academy of Pediatrics reporting the division between the AAP and American Nurses Association on certification, is an unfortunate and deplorable happening. Since the onset of the first Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program in 1965, more than 1,000 nurses have graduated from over 45 programs adding a new dimension to care for children. Although touted by many as the answer to manpower problems for child health care, evidence over the past five years indicates that a new dimension has been added to pediatric care.

The Pediatric Nurse Associate

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 813-814
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

During the past several years as Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Pediatric Manpower I have witnessed the development of the concept of the pediatric nurse associate (PNA) within the specialty of pediatrics. In addition, I have also been aware of the controversies within the AAP membership regarding the role of the PNA in child health care delivery. Many of you will recall the concern of the mid-1960's which widely publicized an impending catastrophic shortage of pediatricians.

Who Will Buy?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hoekelman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
Shortage Of Physicians ◽  
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Provide Health Care

In the late 1960s Henry Silver1 and his colleagues in Colorado, recognizing a then current shortage of physicians available to provide health care to children, developed educational programs to prepare two new types of child health professionals—the pediatric nurse practitioner and the child health associate. The pediatric nurse practitioner model has been replicated throughout the United States. By mid- 1980 there were in operation 53 graduate and continuing education programs to prepare nurses to assume an expanded role in the provision of health care to children, and an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 nurses have been so prepared (M. K. Willian, personal communication, July 1980).

McATEE WINS HENRY K. SILVER AWARD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Author(s):  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
School Health ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Pediatric Nurse

Patricia Rooney McAtee, Ph.D., was the recipient of the Henry K. Silver Award of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners. The award, presented on October 22, 1978, was given for significant contributions to child health care and for the furtherance of the nurse practitioner movement's goals and objectives. Dr. McAtee has been a member of the faculty of the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine of the University of Colorado. She was one of the co-developers of the school nurse practitioner program, and is president of the National Board of Nurse Practitioners and Associates, which she was instrumental in developing. Patricia McAtee has been widely recognized for her contributions in the field of child health care. She was one of the first nurses to be elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served on its committee to develop manpower policy for primary health care. She has been selected as a member of Who's Who of American Women and of Who's Who in America. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Pediatric Nursing and is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in nursing, medical, and school health journals. Dr. McAtee has been a pioneer in the development of the role of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner/Associate in the delivery of primary child health care. She has been a major contributor to the concept of team delivery service and has been instrumental in promoting collaboration between medicine and nursing to provide more comprehensive child health care.

A Program to Increase Health Care for Children: The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program, by Henry K. Silver, MD, Loretta C. Ford, EdD, and Susan G. Stearly, MS, Pediatrics, 1967;39:756–760

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 102 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 245-247
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hoekelman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

The increase in population of the United States is occurring at a much more rapid rate than the increase in medical and nursing personnel available to maintain health services at an optimum level. Unless the pattern of furnishing health care, particularly to lower socioeconomic groups in both urban and rural areas, is drastically improved, these groups will suffer from increasingly inadequate health supervision. This paper describes an educational and training program in pediatrics for professional nurses (the “pediatric nurse practitioner” program), which prepares them to assume an expanded role in providing increased health care for children in areas where there are limited facilities for such care.

It Doesn't Work!

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-128
Author(s):  
Hugh C. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Medical Record ◽  
Central Office ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The Family

In the April 1977 issue of Pediatrics (59:636, 1977), Dr. Cunningham recommends that the patient's medical record be given to the family to keep. He urges that the Committee on Standards of Child Health Care consider this subject. For at least 20 years the American Academy of Pediatrics has published for this very purpose, a "Child Health Record." This is publication HE-4 of the Academy and was last revised in 1968. The central office of the Academy tells me that, at the present time, between 50,000 and 100,000 of these are sold annually to physicians for the distribution that Dr. Cunningham recommends.

GUIDELINES ON SHORT-TERM CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR PEDIATRIC NURSE ASSOCIATES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1075-1079
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Donald J. Frank ◽  
Paul S. Goldstein ◽  
John Rhodes Haverty ◽  
Henry K. Silver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Nursing Assessment ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Medical Professions ◽  
Cooperative Decision Making ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

I. INTRODUCTION The American Nurses' Association and American Academy of Pediatrics recognize collaborative efforts are essential to increase the quality, availability, and accessibility of child health care in the U.S.A. In order to meet the health care needs of children, it is essential that the skills inherent in the nursing and medical professions be utilized more efficiently in the delivery of child health care. Innovative methods are needed to utilize these professional skills more fully. One such innovative approach is the development of the Pediatric Nurse Associate* program. This program will enable nurses, both in practice and reentering practice, to update and expand their knowledge and skills. It is essential that physicians become more aware of the skills and abilities of the nursing profession and that such skills be expanded in the area of ambulatory child health to enable both the nurse and the physician to devote their efforts in the delivery of child health care to the areas of their respective professional expertise. The expansion of the nurse's responsibilities would encompass some of the areas that have traditionally been performed by physicians. Proficiency and competence in performing these new technical skills associated with the expanded responsibility should be viewed as increasing the sources from which the nurse gathers data for making nursing assessment as a basis for diagnoses and action and thus contributing directly to comprehensive nursing. Nurses must therefore be prepared to accept responsibility and accountability for the performance of these acts and must have the opportunity to be engaged in independent as well as cooperative decision making.

CHILD HEALTH CARE, COOPERATION, AND COMMUNICATION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Delivery Of Health Care ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Central Office ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Past ◽  
Term Delivery ◽  
The Many

Each year it is the duty as well as the privilege of the retiring president to present a final summary of his stewardship and some commentary on the events of the Academy year which has just been completed. Such a presentation concerns accomplishments and not simply aspirations; it presents a somewhat philosophic look at our activities in addition to a recital of events. It is both a valedictory for those of us who are finishing our Academy tasks and a challenge to those who are assuming these responsibilities for the year ahead. Before going further, I should like to pay tribute to members of the Executive Board for their valuable help, vision, counsel and support, and to the Chapter and Section Chairmen and to all Committeemen for their diligent service and achievements. I also should like to commend all those in the Central Office for the many tasks they do for us and especially for their fine judgment, devotion, loyalty, and plain hard work. May I commend to you most particularly our new Executive Director. We could not have chosen better. And there is one other, Rhoda, my wife. Without her assistance and understanding, the work of the past 2 years would not have been possible. The term, "delivery of health care," is still new to many of us. In past years it was said that physicians "went into practice." They did indeed deliver care, but it was then called "the care of patients"-a professional and compassionate service to the sick.

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