NONPF Publications

The following publications are available for order.  Please note that if an item is listed as "Out of Stock", it is no longer available for purchase.  Please email NONPF to inquire about a status update for out of stock items.

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Publication Titles and Descriptions

Advanced Nursing Practice: Building Curriculum for Quality Nurse Practitioner Education

This monograph developed by the NONPF Educational Standards and Guidelines Committee features peer-reviewed papers by NONPF members addressing the cutting-edge curricular content needed to prepare future nurse practitioner/advanced practice nursing clinicians to deliver quality care and to assume leadership roles.

Advanced Nursing Practice Encounter Log (2001)

a student clinical encounter logbook to record data for purposes of tracking the NP student's clinical experiences (e.g., range of patients, complexity of encounters, social problems, level of student participation in decision-making, coding, and more).  Developed by Susan A. Fontana, PhD, RN, CS-FNP, Elizabeth C. Devine, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Sheryl T. Kelber, MS, from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Hardcopy of advanced practice nursing encounter log is available.

Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Community Health in Nurse Practitioner Education (2000)

is a report of the NONPF Faculty-to-Faculty Mentoring Program in Community Health, highlighting the issues involved in the integration of community health content into nurse practitioner programs.

Community Health and Nurse Practitioner Education (2003)

the final report of the NONPF Faculty-to-Faculty Mentoring Program in Community Health, it includes community health project reports from the third cohort of faculty participants.

Criteria for Evaluation of Nurse Practitioner Programs: Report of the National Task Force on Quality Nurse Practitioner Education

2008 Print Version is Unavailable at this time.  Electronic Version can be found here.

Educational Mobility for Nurse Practitioners: Guidelines for Educational Articulation Programs (1998)

guidelines for the educational mobility of certificate-prepared nurse practitioners who seek graduate degrees, certificate-prepared nurse practitioners with specialty training seeking graduate training in primary care, and other articulation pathways.

Faculty Practice: Applying the Models (1997)

monograph providing a "how-to" guide for the NP faculty member who is interested in practice as part of the faculty role.

Getting Started: An Introduction to the Strategic Planning Process (2002)

Written by Marc P. Chinoy, President of The Regis Group, Inc., this guide will introduce you to the process of developing a strategic plan for your organization.

Grantsmanship: Developing a Program of Research

A task force of the NONPF Research Committee developed this manual to assist NONPF members and other interested nurse researchers in the process of research, obtaining research funding, and managing a research project. Fourteen contributors provide valuable examples and address various problems that arise in grantsmanship. This manual is a highly practical resource and also features a list of other NONPF members engaged in research who are willing to be a resource to other researchers.

Guidelines for Distance Learning in Nurse Practitioner Education

The NONPF Distance Learning Special Interest Group identified these guidelines to promote quality distance learning in NP education.

Master's Level Nurse Practitioner Educational Programs. Findings from the 2000-2001 Collaborative Curriculum Survey

A report of the NP educational program curriculum survey conducted by NONPF in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This significant resource on NP education provides the most current data on NP curriculum while also identifying questions warranting further discussion and investigation.

MENTORING: Ensuring the Future of NP Practice and Education

NONPF recognizes the significant value of mentoring in preparing future NP and advanced practice nurse clinicians and educators.  Under the leadership of Dr. Michelle Beauchesne, the NONPF Educational Standards and Guidelines Committee identified a need for a resource to address the phenomena of mentoring, its characteristics, and strategies for integration into the NP educational experience.  This monograph presents a collection of 13 articles on key topics related to mentoring presented within three sections:  (1) mentoring versus precepting, (2) mentoring NP students, and (3) mentoring NP faculty and future leaders for the NP profession.  As stated by the editor, Louise Rauckhorst, "This monograph reflects the scholarly work, research, and real world experience of NP faculty and NPs regarding the use of mentoring to facilitate the professional development of NP students, novice, NPs, NP faculty, and the future leaders of the NP profession." 

New Paradigms in Advanced Nursing Practice: Teaching & Technological Strategies in Nurse Practitioner Education

This monograph features brief papers by faculty highlighting innovative teaching strategies and the integration of technology into teaching. Based on presentations at the NONPF 2002 annual meeting, the papers showcase the ideas of some for other faculty to critically evaluate and incorporate into their own teaching. The monograph is divided into two sections - one featuring 12 papers on teaching strategies and the other featuring 7 papers on technology.

NP Competency Based Education Evaluation: Using a Portfolio Approach (2007)

Presented in an easy-to-read format, with an accompanying CD featuring practical tools for curriculum development, this resource: Describes the goals of competency-based education; identifies assessment measures to be used throughout NP curricula; examines multiple uses of the portfolio as an approach to evaluation; and discusses the fit between the revised Domains and Core Competencies (2006) for all NP graduates and the NP Practice Doctorate Competencies.

Nursing Faculty Practice: Models and Methods (1993)

assists the nursing educator/practitioner in linking the missions of teaching, practice, and research.

Partners in NP Education: A Preceptor Manual for NP Programs, Faculty, Preceptors, & Students (2000)

This manual is a guide for the student role development. Recognizing that the role preparation is a partnership among programs, faculty, preceptors, and student, the manual is presented in a modular format with a module for each partner and modules on distance learning and evaluation, as well as many useful forms for use and/or adaptation by programs.  The manual comes in a print version with an accompanying CD-ROM.

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Competencies (2003)

These entry level competencies were developed by the multi-organizational National Panel for Psychiatric-Mental Health NP Competencies.  These competencies have been endorsed by twelve national organizations.  This publication may also be downloaded here.  (Requires the Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded from Adobe's website).

Scholarship and Career Development: Strategies for Success

This manual will assist NP faculty as they enter and progress through their academic careers by offering suggestions and examples of how to present their scholarship in such a way that they are maximizing their impact on the discipline and attaining recognition for their contributions.  The model chosen for this manual is the view of scholarship presented by Ernest L. Boyer in his publication Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities for the Professoriate (1990).  NONPF members are contributors to the various manual sections.  Editors: S. Chase, M.A. Dumas, M. Jansen.

Student Performance Evaluation: An Audiotape-Videotape-Handout Package (2001)

an overview of the background, rationale, and methods involved in performance-based assessment as presented by Dr. Patricia Carney (Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School) during the NONPF 26th Annual Meeting.  This three piece-set includes 2 audiotapes of Dr. Carney’s presentation, 1 VHS video demonstration of skills measured by clinical skills exams, and handout materials.

Teaching Clinical Decision-Making in Advanced Nursing Practice (2000)- OUT OF STOCK!

A compilation of peer-reviewed articles that characterize diverse approaches to teaching clinical decision making as presented by nurse practitioner educators from programs across the country.

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