American Association of Nurse Practitioners

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American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Abbreviation	AANP
Formation	January 1, 2013
Type	Professional organization
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Membership, Educational, Advocacy
Headquarters	Austin, Texas
Region served	United States
President	April N. Kapu
Immediate Past President	Sophia L. Thomas
CEO	Jon Fanning
Website	www.aanp.org

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is an American organization formed in 2013 by a merger between the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (founded in 1985) and the American College of Nurse Practitioners (founded in 1995) to provide nurse practitioners with a unified way to network and advocate their issues.^[1] The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners was the first organization created for nurse practitioners of all specialties in the United States, and AANP remains the largest national membership organization for nurse practitioners midlevels who work for physicians. If they choose to become physicians then they will be recognized as actual specialists. AANP represents the interests of the more than 325,000 nurse practitioners licensed to practice nursing, not medicine, in the U.S.^[2] and continually advocates at local, state and federal levels for the recognition of nurse practitioners as providers of high-quality, cost-effective and midlevel personalized health care.

The association has two official journals: the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.

Notable events[]

• 2013 - The American College of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners merged to form the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
• 2017 - AANP exceeded 75,000 members.
• 2019 - AANP surpassed the 100,000 member mark.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

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