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Kerry Bamrick has shared the following photograph and information about a recent visit to our Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. Anne Marie Hart,PhD, FNP-BC visited from Wyoming and spent the day at our New Britain site learning more about our Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. Anne Marie conducted a survey and published an article on “How prepared new nurse practitioners are for practice“. We use the results of her survey and quote her article regularly, so it was an honor and pleasure to meet…

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Earlier this week, I received an email from Kerry Bamrick about CHC’s Nurse Practitioner Residency program: On Thursday, June 16,, 2011 Margaret Flinter and I were invited to Princeton, NJ to attend New Jersey’s Regional Action Coalition Meeting.  New Jersey was selected as one of 5 pilot states in the Unites States to participate in the prestigious: Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action.  The purpose of the action coalition is to guide the implementation of the recommendations of the Institute…

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Note: This is a guest post from Kerry Bamrick: Hi. I’m the program coordinator for America’s First Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program at Community Health Center, Inc. In 2007, the Community Health Center, headquartered in Middletown, CT launched the first-in-the nation formal Nurse Practitioner Residency Training Program to support the transition from new NP to primary care provider. Our goal is national replication of CHC’s model of community-based residency training for family nurse practitioners. Since 2007, there has been significant…

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