Membership Benefits

Advocacy:

• · The NPA protects and serves the interests of NPs through active representation, advocacy, and lobbying on both state and national levels
• · Provides expanded opportunities for NPs
• · Monitors competitive threats that may impact NPs
• · Ensures NPs are empowered to practice within the full legal title and scope of their profession
• · Increases NP's visibility and promotes the profession with legislators, state regulatory agences, employers, the healthcare community and consumers

• Practice Assistance & Consultation:

• · Assistance and support with practice issues, questions, and challenges from the NPA Professionals and a NP Practice Consultant
• · Information on key practice questions in the NP Resource Guide

• Education & Professional Development:

• · Ongoing state, regional and local educational programs to earn education credits and enhance your professional growth

• The NPA Career Center:

• · Online job bank to search jobs and post resumes to bring employers to you!

• Professional Networking and Sense of Community:

• · Joining the NPA makes you a member of the Association community on a national, state, and regional/local level
• · Membership in both the NPA and local chapter affiliate
• · Online NPA Discussion Forum, Chapter meetings, and NPA events
• · Representation in the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

• News and Information:

• · Quaterly newsletter, The Communique
• · Governmental Affairs Action Alerts, updates and e-newsletters
• · CEO communications on hot topics
• · Member Center section of the NPA web site
• · Student Center section on the NPA website

• Member Discounts/Products:

• · Discounts on NPA Annual Clinical Convention and Regional Conferences