The Maryland Academy of Advanced Practice Clinicians

Founded in 2005, MAAPC is a volunteer organization which represents NPs, CNSs, CRNAs, Midwives & PAs Martin O’Malley in 2015.

In August 2005, 16 nurse practitioners (NP) gathered to discuss the formation of an organization that would support their educational and networking goals in Southern Maryland. Since that initial gathering, the Maryland Coalition of Nurse Practitioners (MCNP) has grown into a statewide organization, now known as the Maryland Academy of Advanced Practice Clinicians (MAAPC), which represents Advance

d Practice Nurses (APN) in the Maryland State Legislature and offers affordable local continuing education conferences. The first MCNP legislative committee, comprised of Beth VandeGeijn, Bridget Vetere-Overfield and Lorraine Diana, a founding member of the organization, formed to act as a legislative machine to eliminate the collaborative agreement (CA). They drafted a bill to end the CA and Lorraine went to fundraising activities in Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s counties to gain audiences with Southern Maryland politicians. At that time, among other restrictions, NPs could not sign for handicap stickers. Lorraine’s pitch to the politicians was, "I can diagnose your pain, treat your injury, write prescriptions, but not sign your handicap sticker. You will have to find a doctor to do that for you” and politicians understood the message. By 2006, Southern Maryland politicians had become well acquainted with and educated about NP's. In 2008, an attorney, Carolyn Buppert, NP, rewrote the bill to eliminate the CA, and MCNP had a meeting with the Southern Maryland Delegation on the opening day of the 2009 session. Unfortunately, they found that the Nurse Practitioner Association of Maryland (NPAM) had signed an agreement with the Maryland State Medical Society, MedChi, not to introduce legislation regarding the CA until 2010. MCNP then focused their legislative efforts to add an APN member to the Maryland Board of Nursing and allow NPs to sign for handicap stickers. Right after the 2009 session, MCNP, led by Lorraine Diana, met at Rip's Country Inn in Bowie for a strategic planning session with NPAM, led by Susan Delean-Botkin. They decided to collaboratively introduce the bill to remove the CA in the 2010 session. Susan and Lorraine developed a slide presentation with a strategy introducing Maryland’s limitations in patient access to care and the issue of health care shortages throughout the state. They had examples of NP's who lost their collaborative physicians and had to close practices, leaving hundreds of patients without access to care. To support the idea of eliminating the CA, they collected research on the safety and efficacy of NP practice and statistics on the increasing cost of patient care without access to primary care providers. Susan and Lorraine used the presentation along with the research to educate Maryland stakeholders on the importance of full practice authority (FPA) for NPs. In 2010 legislation eliminating the written CA was passed, followed by our bill for FPA for NPs signed in law by Gov. In 2011, MCNP changed its name to the Maryland Academy of Advanced Practice Clinicians and through a bylaw change became the first organization in the nation to include all Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) and Physician Assistants (PA) in one association! MAAPC’s objective was to implement the ambitions of the Institute of Medicine's Health Care Quality Initiative (the IOM Report) and the Consensus Model for APRN Regulation for Licensure, Accreditation, Certification and Education (the LACE Report). MAAPC members also believed that in order to promote the new health care paradigm and improve the health care system in Maryland, NPs needed to support and understand our APN and PA colleagues. Lorraine Diana says “it was a perfect time for all advanced practice clinicians to come together as a cohesive group with similar goals to obtain equitable payment for our services, recognition by insurance companies as independent providers, and legislative changes that allow us to practice to the full extent of our education, training and experience.”

MAAPC continues to support and work with our fellow APNs and PAs in their legislative and educational endeavors and has partnered with the Board of Nursing, the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Nurses Association and many other organizations through the years. Members volunteer to testify during legislative sessions in Annapolis, review and help rewrite bills that effect Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) practice and, when needed, introduce legislation that improves and ensures the continuation of FPA for NPs. MAAPC holds annual continuing educational conferences that focus on clinical practice, pharmacology and information that goes beyond day-to-day clinical practice for those who want to enhance their career and become leaders in their field. Membership in the organization is open to all APCs including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, physician assistants, as well as others involved/interested in health care.

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BHIPP and Maryland Pediatric Mental Health

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MAAPC Dinner Annpolis June 6

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MAAPC May 2024 Meeting in Southern Maryland

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