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The Most Important Benefits
One of the most important benefits of membership is your vote on matters of importance to our association and our profession. Your vote helps to influence NAPNES policy and elects our officers and board members. One person, one vote. In our organization, your vote really does make a difference.

Professional Research
NAPNES conducts research on Practical Nursing and answers questions about nursing research conducted by others.

National Education Standards
NAPNES publishes national education standards and works to help make practical nursing education uniform across the U.S.

National Practice Standards
NAPNES is in the process of creating national practice standards for LP/VNs to help make practice standards more uniform across the U.S.

Representation
NAPNES represents LP/VNs, PN Schools, PN Educators and PN Students at national conferences, regulatory meetings and high level nursing policy making meetings. Individual nurses are not invited to these meetings and it's the only way the entire group practical/vocational nursing profession is represented at these meetings.

Additionally, NAPNES provided education materials to state and national legislatures and state regulators on P/VN practice and education.

Professional Pride
As an LP/VN, you are educated to provide patients with quality bedside care; therefore you should take pride in your job and your profession. By joining NAPNES, you make a statement; your membership shows others that you believe in licensed practical / vocational nursing and that you are proud to be an LP/VN. In short, as a member of NAPNES, you are doing more than making a living; you are making a difference!
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National Presence
When you join NAPNES, you join an organization that has been the voice of licensed practical/vocational nursing for over 65 years. During that time, NAPNES has worked to keep licensed practical/vocational nursing alive in its present form. NAPNES speaks out for LP/VNs whenever and wherever licensed practical/vocational nursing is threatened. LP/VNs have proven themselves as an integral part of the health-care team and NAPNES believes that its members should be allowed to continue in this role.
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LP/VN Networking
NAPNES keeps you in touch with other LP/VNs and that's important for those of you who want to make a difference. The NAPNES network provides you with information about issues affecting LP/VNs across the country. The NAPNES network enables you to acquire valuable contacts who can share their experience and expertise with you.
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The Journal of Practical Nursing
Your membership in NAPNES entitles you to a year's subscription to The Journal of Practical Nursing. The nationally recognized and respected publication is the oldest nursing publication devoted entirely to licensed practical/vocational nursing. Each issue of the quarterly publication keeps you up-to-date on your profession with articles about association news, infection control, nursing law, and legislation and regulations affecting LP/VNs. The JPN also contains interesting feature, clinical, and continuing education articles on topics of interest to LP/VNs.
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Continuing Education
NAPNES members receive a thirty-three to fifty-percent discount on all continuing education programs offered through the JPN or on our website. The JPN contains continuing education articles worth two credit hours each (or more). In addition, back issues of the JPN are offered, so new members can accumulate contact hours to make up for lost time. The articles enable LP/VNs to stay abreast of new developments in nursing and pharmacology. JPN is circulated to 27 foreign countries and throughout the United States.
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CERKS
Keeping continuing education records can be a tiresome and confusing task. As a NAPNES
member, you are eligible to join CERKS (Continuing Education Record Keeping System).
NAPNES will keep the records of your continuing education credits. At your request, NAPNES supplies a computerized printout of your files. NAPNES/CERKS takes the worry out of record keeping.
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Certification Programs
NAPNES currently offers two online national certification programs -- One in Pharmacology AND another in Long-Term Care. Students may qualify for the pharmacology certification program. The Director of the Program of Practical/Vocational Nursing should contact NAPNES for the details or visit www.napnes.org and download the information. Individual students are accepted ONLY through the program aplication.

NAPNES is working with the Infusion Nurses Society Certification Coorporation to develop of program of study and national certification for LP/VNs to provide infusion therapy.
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Discounted Services and Products
NAPNES members receive discounts to various products and services, including discounts on NAPNES products, and more are being added on a regular basis. Now NAPNES members save 10% on text books from Elsevier (Mosby, Saunders, and other). See our online bookstore for more information. NAPNES members also enjoy a substantial discount on attendance at our national conventions and on the re-certification costs.
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Members Only Web Area
NAPNES offers a variety of additional opportunities for LP/VNs to interact and participate with and through the organization via the members only area of our site. This includes access to private forums, chat rooms, and much more.
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$250 NEA Educational Grant
In recognition of your commitment to the nursing profession, NAPNES is pleased to offer members the Excellence in Nursing grant. As part of the Putting Nurses First program, NAPNES has partnered with the National Education Alliance to establish this grant program to lessen the financial burden of LPNs who seek higher education. Click here for more information.
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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

Individual Membership — $75.00 per year
Individual memberships in NAPNES are open to RNs, LPNs, and others interested in advocating the professional practice of practical / vocational nurses.
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See our home page for a special e-Membership offer for individual members at just $35.00 per year.

Agency Membership — $100.00 per year
Agency memberships in NAPNES are open to institutions that support quality healthcare including but not limited to hospitals, long-term care centers, schools of nursing, etc.
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Associate Membership (Retirees) — $35.00 per year
Associate memberships in NAPNES are open to retired RNs, LPNs, and others who are retired but remain interested in advocating the professional practice of practical / vocational nurses.
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Student Membership — $25.00 per year
Student memberships in NAPNES are open to individuals who are currently students in a practical / vocational nursing school.
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See our home page for information on our special e-Membership for students for just $10.00 per year.

Life Membership — $500.00
Offers lifetime individual membership level to RNs, LPNs, and others interested in advocating the professional practice of practical / vocational nurses. Paid in three annual installments as follows: $100.00 year one, $200.00 each in years two and three.
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COPNE Membership — $00.00
Special membership for PN Educators who are already members of NAPNES to join the Council of Practical Nurse Educators.

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Phone: 703-933-1003 — Fax: 703-940-4089