The week of November 13 19, 2011 is National Nurse Practitioner Week. This week provides an opportunity for us to celebrate the important work of these
unique healthcare professionals.
For nearly a half-century, nurse practitioners across the United States have provided comprehensive, cost-effective, patient-centered services to millions of Americans in need of primary, acute and specialty healthcare services. Recently, the Institute of Medicine, together with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released a report addressing some of the current challenges to the healthcare system. The report strongly recommended that advanced practice registered nurses—including nurse practitioners—be allowed to practice to the full scope of their abilities and that unnecessary barriers to that practice should be removed.
Healthcare in America today faces many obstacles, most notably rising costs and the shortage of available healthcare providers. Nurse practitioners are a large
part of the solution to this problem.
The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford congratulations its nurse practitioners:
Eve Ackerman
Michelle Brady
Gail Brick
Carol Eatock
Jean Gale
Kellie Gibbons
Debbie Gortowski
Judith Heinschel
Christine Krause
Patricia Nordman
Cindy McGrath
Elizabeth Mendeloff
Tanya Munger
Noel Pycior
Kelly Rosenberger
Lori Thompson