Nurse Practitioner Case Study

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The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners was founder in 198f5, while the American College of Nurse Practitioner was founded in 1995. These organizations joined together in January 1, 2013 to form American Association of Nurse Practitioner (AANP). It is the largest full service organization for all NP’s of all specialties.
The vision on AANP is to provide high quality health care to patients. Its core values are the following; first, is integrity (trust, accountability, ethical, reliability & respect). Second, excellence by exceeding expectation, continuous improvement, identifying and documenting best practice and promoting high quality result. Third, professionalism through accountability and working as part of a team. Fourth, becoming

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