Advanced Practice Providers Community of Practice (APP COP)

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2022-2023 Executive Committee

Chair: Kristen Ryland (2023)
Co-Chair: Gina Jamero (2023)
Past Chair: Brenda Muth (2023)
Board Liaison: Linda Ohler (2023)
Kimberly Gardner Wescoe (2024)
Jessica Spiegel (2024)
Kenai Hattori (2023)
Hailey Kessler (2023)
Early Career: Dalia Kawas (2023

Staff Liaison: Anne Kreiss (akreiss@myAST.org)

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Below are two fellowship training opportunities for transplant advanced practice providers. If you would like to post a clinical or research position, please send a brief (200-word limit) announcement to the APP COP staff liaison, Anne Kreiss, at akreiss@myAST.org. The announcement should include contact information (address, phone, fax, and/or e-mail) of the recruiter.

Duke University Hospital

One position is open every September for the NP/PA abdominal transplant fellowship program. I just wanted to reach out to everyone in the transplant community with a request to let both new graduates and experienced NP/PAs know about this opportunity. If everyone can let their peers know that will be greatly appreciated! They can either go to Abdominal Transplant Fellowship for Advanced Practice Providers or contact me directly at kenai.hattori@duke.edu.

Also, I am very interested in finding similar fellowship programs to create an opportunity for fellows to visit other institutions as part of their curriculum. If anyone is interested in trying to develop this exchange program please let me know!

Thank you!

Kenai Hattori, FNP-C
Director of Abdominal Transplant Fellowship for APPs

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt has a one-year multi-organ transplant fellowship. It is a paid fellowship. I am happy to discuss in more detail. My email address is deonna.moore@vumc.org.

Thank you!

Deonna Moore, PhD, MSN, ACNP
Administrative Director, Transplant Clinical Services

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Engage the community through work on meaningful initiatives that are addressed by different workgroups (outside of the executive committee):

• Evaluate our three subcommittees (Education, Membership, and APP Practice) to determine if additional subcommittees are needed.
• Develop a DEI subcommittee.
• Continue to engage COP members to participate in subcommittees.
• Encourage COP members to collaborate with other COPs by joining workgroups that align with APP interests and clinical needs (T3 and webinar proposals).
• Continue mentor-mentee pairings and program.
• Distribute APP burnout survey and follow-up data.

Submit at least one idea for an educational opportunity (either through an ATC program proposal or another mechanism):

• Continue to pursue educational ideas based on our 2018 Needs Assessment.
• Update Needs Assessment in 2023.
• Develop programming submissions from APPs for ATC.
• Continue to collaborate with other COPs for presentations for presentations and T-3 webinars.
• Use the Hub to poll APP COP members on what they have published on, and use this to guide future ATC programming ideas.

Create content that serves the community and the AST at large, such as guidelines, white papers, journal clubs, etc.

• Develop multimedia educational content opportunities for the COP.
• Update Transplan 101 PowerPoint presentation as needed.
• Maintain speaker database.
• Develop onboarding training for transplant APPs as a guideline that is approved by AST.
• Develop Transplant Handbook for APPs.

Ensure COP mission statement and strategic plan are aligned to AST strategic vision and demonstrate progress on the strategic plan in subsequent years:

• Mission Statement: To advocate for, support, and advance the knowledge of transplant APPs
• Strategic Plan:
  • Provide educational opportunities for APPs within AST
  • Provide networking opportunities for APPS
  • Expand APP participation in AST through committee involvement and collaboration with other COPs
• Support APPS in participating in academic activities (research, publications, and presentations)

Assess member educational needs with input from the education committee:

• Continue to develop programming based on the 2018 needs assessment.
• Update Needs Assessment in 2023.
• Incorporate educational needs identified by the APP Practice survey.

Maintain repository of resources for community membership (such as COP online library):

• Develop a repository of media/library of articles and resources for educational reference.
• Develop a subcommittee to manage resources on the Hub.

Nominate members for the AST Board and other leadership positions within AST:

• APPs contribute to the Transplant community through participation in AST Committees.
• Identify members to nominate for Achievement Awards.
• Encourage members to fill out the AST Committee Interest Form to gain access to AST committees.
• Have APP on the ATC 2023 Planning Committee and CEoT Planning Committee.
• Maintain membership program.

Provide opportunities for the membership to network/collaborate throughout the year (outside of ATC):

• Continue travel grant, presenter, and early career grants. EC members run the campaign.
• Continue member spotlight quarterly on the Hub.
• Plan socials at ATC and other AST-sponsored meetings.

Encourage members to suggest initiatives and share ideas through the online communities:

• Continue to encourage the use of the Hub, and reach out to fellow APPS in the COP.
• Explore futher use of Twitter, Facebook ATP Hub, and social media.

Actively sustain COP-to-AST membership conversion and growth of the COP and AST:

• Work on collaboration with ASTS ATPs.

Provide regular updates to the COP membership (minimum of once per quarter) and to the Board:

• Provide monthly Hub updates.