NANNP hosts a number of educational courses and professional activities in conjunction with NANN’s annual educational conference. Attendees can take advantage of cutting-edge sessions on topics in advanced practice neonatal nursing and also network with the best and brightest in the field in a variety of preconference workshops, roundtables, and activities:
NANNP webinars present a variety of advanced practice nursing topics in a 45-minute presentation. Speakers and topics are selected with the neonatal nurse practitioner in mind and cover a variety of professional, clinical, legislative, and workforce topics.
NANNP’s focus on education and research gives NNPs the resources they need to meet the challenges they face in their daily practice. Affordable NNP-centric educational products and a growing list of free tools and resources are available to NANNP members. NANNP also conducts national research surveys to help NNPs better understand and address professional practice issues and provides timely, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and resources on the most common and complex clinical issues.
The National Certification Corporation (NCC) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a national credentialing program for nurses, physicians, and other licensed healthcare personnel. Certification is awarded to nurses in the obstetric, gynecologic, neonatal, and telephone nursing specialties, and certificates of added qualification are awarded in the subspecialty areas of electronic fetal monitoring, breastfeeding, gynecologic health care, and menopause.