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GSN professor named fellow, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Diane Seibert, PhD, CRNP, director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program in the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, or FAANP, on June 20, 2009 during the AANP national conference in Nashville, Tenn.

Seibert, who joined the USU in 1996, "is one the nation's leaders in advanced practice nursing," said USU Graduate School of Nursing Dean, Dr. Adasue Hinshaw. "The GSN faculty and I are very proud of her accomplishments and her election as a Fellow of the AANP."

Established in 2000, the FAANP program recognizes nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through nurse practitioner clinical practice, research, education or policy. Priority initiatives of FAANP are the development of leadership and mentorship programs for nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students.

Fellows of the AANP are visionaries committed to the global advancement of nursing through the development of imaginative and creative future nurse practitioner leaders, and as such, hold an annual think tank to strategize about the future of nurse practitioners and health care outside the confines of traditional thinking. A limited number of nurse practitioners are selected for this highly coveted distinction each year.

Founded in 1985, the AANP is the oldest, largest, and only full-service national professional organization for nurse practitioners of all specialties. AANP represents the interests of the approximately 125,000 nurse practitioners around the country. AANP continually advocates for the active role of nurse practitioners as providers of high-quality, cost-effective and personalized health care. For more information about AANP, visit www.aanp.org.