December 31, 2020 by Kerry Bamrick

Who among us has the same thoughts, ideas and assumptions that we had ten, eleven, or twelve short months ago? How could we? A plague has torn through our country, unabated as I write this. While largely nondiscriminatory in its deadliness, COVID-19 has shone a light on a health care system rife with, even defined […]

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September 16, 2020 by Kerry Bamrick

Summer is almost over and Fall is in the air.  It’s a time for new beginnings, when many programs are welcoming their new cohort of trainees, often before the dust has settled from the previous cohort’s graduation. I think we would all agree, this was a summer like no other. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the […]

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May 8, 2020 by Candice Rettie

It is lovely to join you again, and my honor to write this guest blog. My retirement took several months to actually happen – life intervened. In February I finally began to shift into a more relaxed schedule. Then the pandemic hit. Over the last months, every one of us has experienced loss. The heart-aching […]

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January 15, 2020 by NNPRFTC

I had plenty of time to think as we drove from Connecticut to California this December.  Crossing nearly a dozen state lines, through three time zones and innumerable weather systems, it was an epic trip through America’s towns and cities and vast open spaces. I thought a lot about the state of health in America […]

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October 7, 2019 by NNPRFTC

I know many of you already.  But, for those of you I don’t know, I’m Kerry Bamrick, and a few weeks ago, I became Executive Director of this young and extraordinary organization. I step into the large shoes of Candice Rettie, the first Executive Director of the National Nurse Practitioner Residency & Fellowship Training Consortium. […]

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August 19, 2019 by Candice Rettie

As many of you know from reading my blogs over the last four years, I am constantly inspired by nature – by the change of seasons; by birds choosing (or not choosing) to live in our carefully selected birdhouses; by the sun, the moon and the stars.  My husband and I live adjacent to national wetlands preserves […]

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August 18, 2019 by Candice Rettie

Big news!  On June 28th, the Consortium submitted its petition to the United States Department of Education (USDE or simply, as it is officially called, the ED) for Initial Recognition as a programmatic accrediting agency. The petition weighed as much as a block of granite – nearly 500 pages of exhibits and over 100 pages of text. You […]

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April 15, 2019 by Candice Rettie

Our flight finally landed, an hour and a half late. Everyone was eager to get off, especially the family ahead of me, parents with three young sons who looked to be between 5 and 9 years old.  As they gathered their belongings, the middle boy was becoming increasingly anxious. The father said, very calmly, “Control […]

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