Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education
non-profit organization
Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE) is a national nonprofit organization that provides continuing education for nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), and other advanced practice providers (APPs). NPACE is accredited to offer a range of continuing education (CE) and continuing medical education (CME) opportunities in live, virtual, and on-demand formats.
History
NPACE was established in 1980 by a small group of New England Nurse Practitioners. At the time, there was a lack of conferences that addressed the specific educational requirements of Nurse Practitioners (NP). Up to this point, nurse practitioners attended educational conferences designed for physicians. Noticing this void, the NPACE founders’ vision was to develop continuing education programs “For Nurse Practitioners, by Nurse Practitioners.” It was the first formal organization to focus on the continuing education needs of nurse practitioners.
In its early years, NPACE held conferences in the Greater Boston area and expanded over time to national scale. In 1992, it organized its first major national conference with attendance from across the United States. Through the subsequent decades, NPACE added specialty and advanced practice topics — such as women's health, pharmacology, and geriatrics — and broadened its offerings to include multi-format educational programs.
Over more than 40 years, NPACE evolved from a regional NP education network into a national provider of professional development, serving thousands of clinicians across multiple specialties and practice environments.
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