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Contact your legislators NOW!

Please reach out to members of the Senate Education and Health committee and the House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee to ask for their support of HB 1737. The 2021 General Assembly session begins January 13 and may last only 30 days, which means we need to contact legislators NOW. 

VCNP Members can find the link in their member email accounts, or by logging in to their member profile and selecting “Advocacy” under the “Advocacy” tab, then selecting the campaign dated 12/28/20.

2021 VCNP Annual Conference – Registration is OPEN

Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners 2021 VIRTUAL Annual Conference – March 10-13, 2021

The VCNP Conference is virtual, but all sessions will have “live” speakersBreakout Sessions will be videotaped, so attendees will be able to view them later to obtain more CE.

Excellent Speakers – Barb Bancroft, Wendy Wright, Lynn Rapsilber, Pam Cipriano, Norman Oliver and many more expert speakers Conference Agenda

Timely Topics – COVID 19, Implicit Bias and Racial Disparity in the Healthcare Setting, Healthcare Provider Well Being and many more formidable topics

For more information, or to register, visit the 2021 VCNP Annual Conference information page.

The VCNP Mission: To facilitate the advancement and foster the professional growth of Nurse Practitioners, and to advocate for the improvement of health and access to care for all Virginians.

For questions, please contact Betsy Crowell at betsy.crowell@easterassociates.com

Legislator-Hosted Tele-Town Hall Meetings

The 2021 Virginia General Assembly Session will be held virtually and some legislators will host tele-Town Halls in order to connect with Virginians.
VCNP sends notice of these meetings as soon as we receive them. Be on the lookout for information by email, on vcnp.net, or follow us on social media to find up-to-date information about these virtual opportunities to connect.

VCNP Virtual Town Hall Meetings – January 6, 2021

VCNP Virtual Town Hall Meetings – January 6, 2021

12:30 p.m. | 8 p.m.

Learn about HB 1737 and how you can advance NP practice in Virginia!

VCNP will host two virtual town hall meetings on January 6 to review HB 1737 and share resources to help members connect with their legislators and garner support from colleagues for our bill.

We will host these meetings at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. in order to reach the most registrants. Please join us during lunch or evening hours to learn how you can affect change!

Click here to register for the 12:30 p.m. Virtual Town Hall
Click here to register for the 8 p.m. Virtual Town Hall

VDH’s COVIDWISE exposure notification app joins national key server to increase effectiveness across state lines

Virginia joins D.C., 15 other states participating in the unified server; COVIDWISE surpasses 885,000 downloads

(Richmond, Va.) — Virginia’s first-in-the-nation COVID-exposure notification app will now work across DC and all 15 states that have such an app. More than one in ten Virginians have downloaded and are using COVIDWISE, which notifies people if they have been physically close to someone who tested positive. COVIDWISE, Virginia’s free COVID-19 Exposure Notifications app, is now participating with the Association of Public Health Laboratories’ (APHL) National Key Server, allowing COVIDWISE interoperability with Washington, D.C. and other states’ apps that also use the server. Now COVIDWISE can communicate with other state notification apps to share anonymous bits of information or “exposure notification keys” using a national server that will enable users to find out when they may have been exposed by users from other states.

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Don’t Miss Out! VCNP swag available now!

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Time to get your very own VCNP gear and support the VCNP Lynchburg Region Fundraiser! Items include long and short- sleeve shirts, stainless steel tumblers, masks, and a baseball cap.

The pop-up shop won’t last forever so order your items today! Sale ends Dec. 6th so items can be shipped in time for holiday gift giving.

CLICK HERE to get your VCNP gear!

AANP State Awards Winners Announced

General News

Dr. Deborah Gray, FNP-C, ANP-BC, FAAANP
AANP Virginia State Representative

As your AANP Virginia Representative, I am happy to announce the winners of the two prestigious 2021 AANP State Awards for Virginia, Dr. Shelly Smith, APRN-BC for Excellence in NP Practice and Dr. Carolyn Rutledge, FNP-BC for Excellence in Advocacy. These award winners have many outstanding accomplishments and were selected from an impressive pool of nominees.

Dr. Smith is being recognized for NP Practice Excellence as a leader of initiatives to improve health outcomes for citizens of Virginia including the Virginia COVID19 Response Task Force, as well as serving as an exceptional NP role model and mentor to students and colleagues. 

Dr. Rutledge is being recognized for NP Advocacy Excellence as a nationally recognized NP and DNP educator and policy advocate, championing and empowering NPs as leaders and the innovators and drivers in telehealth policy and care delivery. 

These award winners will be honored at the AANP National Conference in June 2021. 

Please join me in congratulating them, as these awards are well deserved!