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History

In June 2010, CACC held its 17th invitational conference on Advanced Practice Nursing.  As envisioned by CACC President and Columbia University School of Nursing Dean Emerita Mary O. Mundinger, these conferences were designed with three goals in mind: to reach consensus on clear and uniform standards of advanced clinical preparation; to establish significant interest among academic nursing leaders and their national organizations to work toward such a standard, and lastly; to ensure that medical and health policy leaders understand and endorse the proposed doctoral-practice degree for nurses who meet the standard.

Since August 2000, when the first conference was held in Paris, the participants, invited by Dr. Mundinger, have focused on discussing the present role of advanced practice nurses (APNs) in the health care system and mapping out changes needed to be implemented in order to best prepare future APNs to manage all aspects of primary care in any setting.  Nursing school deans, health policy analysts and experts in health care gather once or twice a year not only to consider the current trends in health care and debate various approaches to problems seen but also to update the group on the individual steps toward offering a practice doctorate at their home institutions.