The Health Policy Agenda for NAPNAP includes four health policy priorities and goals:
Priority #1: Health care access and quality
Goal: Improve access to quality pediatric health care including comprehensive primary, chronic, acute and specialty care services for all children and adolescents.
Priority #2: Social determinants of health
Goal: Optimize child and adolescent health by advancing public health and policy initiatives that address social determinates of health.
Priority #3: Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) practice
Goal: Promote access to a pediatric-focused APRN workforce that reflects the diversity of children across the nation.
Priority #4: Pediatric-focused APRN advocacy, and rooted in an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion for all children, families and pediatric health care providers
Goal: Position pediatric-focused APRNs as recognized child health policy leaders and advocates at federal, state and local levels.
Foundation: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners is committed to achieving diversity, equity and inclusion for all by advancing essential and urgent health and public policy change. NAPNAP will actively oppose any health-related or adjacent policy initiatives that discriminate against children, families, health care workers and/or communities on the basis of race, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or otherwise.
To learn more about the NAPNAP health policy agenda visit our website.
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