Advanced practice nurse

I got the initials incorrect behind your name.

But you are a APRN slash nurse practitioner working at Cool Springs Plastic Surgery in Nashville.

And you are a... a trainer, a speaker.

You've got a huge presence in the industry.

Yes.

So we are a very small percentage of the total APRN workforce, less than 2% of the advanced practice nurse practitioner workforce comprised of neonatal nurse practitioners.

And when you look at the increasing demand as far as the number of neonatal intensive care units that are opening, the number of infants that are being admitted to NICUs that are requiring complex care, And then just the acuity of those babies, increasing acuity down to, you know, 22, even 21 weeks gestation, depending on where you're at, has really significantly increased the demand for exceptional, skilled, educated providers.

And I think that we complement the neonatology role so well.

me.

So as we wrap up, what are three things that you want every NICU nurse or APRN to remember when caring for a baby with congestion? And also, how would you educate that family when you're preparing them for discharge?

Use saline, number one, number two, number three, as your top three things you do.

Use it frequently.

And as somebody who operates within a scope of practice, scope of practice protects us.

So whenever you say you want an APRN or a nurse prac to expand that, what kind of services are you wanting them to offer in these facilities that they're not already trained to do? And what type of APRN?

I don't know the different types of ARPN, but I don't see why a nurse practitioner couldn't provide primary care services for patients.

So they do.

Right.

And that's Deborah Donahue, uh, APRN, and she has Symphony Health Care, and their website is www.shcokala.com. www.shcokala.com.

So we're excited about having her on, on the team.

All right.

Welcome to the Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.

I'm Mariah Taylor, assistant editor, and I'm thrilled to be speaking with Rhonda Hoyer, vice president of Advanced Practice, Wisconsin and Illinois Division at Advocate Health, and Brittany Broyhill, vice president of Advanced Practice, North Carolina and Georgia Division at Advocate Health.

Thank you both for joining me today.

I'm so excited to dive more into your strategic APP leadership.

It's, it's such a wonderful opportunity to be here, uh, with you.

Um, I'm Rhonda Hoyer.

Uh, I am by background, uh, a nurse practitioner and practiced in, uh, primary care for about 20 years, uh, and have been dually in leadership for the last, uh, 17 years, starting out in an academic medical center, uh, where I was responsible for growing and strategically leading the advanced practice workforce there and in the last five years came to Advocate Health prior to coming together, uh, as a much larger organization, uh, today and have had the wonderful opportunity to continue, uh, leading at, uh, the senior executive level.

Again, in a, in a larger workforce, we have over 2,700 APPs, uh, here in the Wisconsin and Illinois divisions, and so it's been a, an incredible opportunity, uh, to both, uh, be a clinician and lead clinicians in, uh, two very different organizations, but leverage the, uh, skills and, uh, and, and talents that are needed, um, in this space.

Nurse educator is a great track to do as well.

A-and then what is a nursing APRN completion program?

That's if you're a nurse practitioner currently.

Okay.