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Advanced Practice Provider Executives, Inc. - APPex

“The pinnacle of potential for advanced practice executives, administrators, and leaders.”

APPex is a not-for-profit professional membership organization and network for healthcare executives, administrators, and leaders in advanced practice nursing/medicine that provides resources, support and consulting services to clinicians, hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Our mission, vision, and values focus intently on APP leaders and those who support them in their role, ultimately

leading to safer & higher quality care, markedly more satisfied staff and patients, and more appropriate and efficient utilization of APRNs & PAs.

09/07/2026

Evidence matters.
But evidence only changes healthcare when someone helps translate it into practice.
That’s one of the places where Clinical Nurse Specialists shine.

CNSs combine clinical expertise, research, evidence-based practice, and leadership to identify problems, develop interventions, implement change, and improve outcomes.

They help move healthcare from:
“We know what the evidence says.”
to
“Here’s how we’re putting it into practice.”

That is innovation.
That is leadership.
That is the CNS difference.

Source: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), CNS Week 2026 Celebration Kit.

09/06/2026

A Clinical Nurse Specialist doesn’t work in just one place.
CNSs make an impact across three interconnected spheres:
Patients: providing advanced, specialized care and improving outcomes.
Nursing Practice: mentoring nurses, advancing evidence-based practice, and strengthening clinical expertise.
Organizations & Systems: leading quality improvement, innovation, and changes that improve how healthcare is delivered.
That’s what makes the CNS role so powerful: one role, three spheres of impact, countless lives improved.
This CNS Week, let’s amplify what CNSs bring to healthcare.

Source: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), CNS Week 2026 Celebration Kit.

09/06/2026

Who supports the people caring for patients?
CNSs do.

Clinical Nurse Specialists provide expert clinical guidance, mentorship, professional development, and support to nurses and nursing teams.
They help translate evidence into practice, strengthen clinical skills, solve complex problems, and build the capacity of the nursing workforce.
When we invest in CNSs, we amplify the entire nursing team.

This CNS Week, celebrate the CNS who has taught you something, challenged you to grow, or helped you become a better nurse.

Source: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), CNS Week 2026 Celebration Kit.

09/05/2026

💰 $2.9 million.
That’s the savings reported from a CNS team providing prenatal home care to a group of women with high-risk pregnancies.
The program also saved approximately 750 hospital days.
This is what it means to amplify the value of the CNS role.
CNSs don’t just improve care. They can help healthcare organizations find better, more effective ways to deliver it.
The impact is clinical.
The impact is human.
And the impact can be measured.
📣 This CNS Week, let’s amplify the evidence behind the CNS role.

Source: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), CNS Week 2026 Celebration Kit; Brooten, D. et al. (2001), American Journal of Managed Care, 7(8), 793–803.

09/05/2026

📣 It’s National CNS Week!
This year, we’re turning up the volume on the voice, value, and visibility of Clinical Nurse Specialists.
The theme for CNS Week 2026 is AMPLIFY: Making the Invisible Indispensable.
CNSs are doing essential work every day: improving patient outcomes, advancing evidence-based practice, mentoring nurses, leading innovation, and strengthening healthcare systems.
This week, let’s make that impact impossible to overlook.
🩺 Celebrate a CNS.
📣 Share a CNS success story.
💡 Highlight an innovation.
❤️ Tell a CNS why their work matters.
Let’s amplify the profession and the people transforming healthcare every day.

Source: National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS), CNS Week 2026 Celebration Kit.

09/03/2026

The Advanced Practice Provider (APRN & PA) Leadership Summit is the first and largest conference specifically geared towards advanced practice leadership and administrative topics.

The entire annual conference (summit) is four (4) full days and consists of two (2) components: the advanced practice leadership training seminars (Wed), and the 2.5-day summit (Thu-Sat).

Live stream is available Sep 17-19 (Thu-Sat) for $895.

26.25 CE/CME Credits!

19th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Summit
Kimpton Santo San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel
431 South Alamo St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
1(855) 546-7866

Register for the live stream only here:
www.APPexecutives.org/conferences/advanced-practice-leadership-summit

09/03/2026

Initially developed and launched in 2013, Advanced Practice Provider Executives, Inc. (APPex) is the largest provider of training and continuing education on controlled substances to PAs and NPs in California.

It allows PAs to write for controlled substances without patient-specific approval and satisfies requirements of Business and Professional Code section 3502.1(c)(2), under the California Department of Consumer Affairs, PA Board.

It allows NPs to order/prescribe/furnish Schedule II medications and satisfies the continuing education requirements of Business and Professional Code section 2836.1(g)(3), under the California Board of Registered Nursing (i.e., Schedule II).

Courses are offered monthly (Saturdays) online from 9AM - 4PM PT and award six (6) CE/CME credits (PAs: Category 1 CME).

Learn more and register for the next course at www.APPexecutives.org/controlled-substances-courses

09/01/2026

Initially developed and launched in early 2020, Advanced Practice Provider Executives, Inc. (APPex) established the first and only honorary recognition that formally acknowledges the accomplishments of APRN/PA expert administrators and leaders specifically involved with advanced practice. Fellows of APPex are selected based on outstanding contributions to advanced practice administration.

Becoming a fellow of a professional membership organization is an honor reserved exclusively for the most senior scholars. Not to be confused with a post-graduate residency/fellowship program, fellow status is an honorary, competitive process for which applicants/nominees must detail their achievements and show a substantial amount of work that has enriched their profession.

Applications are accepted on a rolling, ongoing basis.

Fellows of APPex will be honored and recognized annually at the national conference in September.

After this recognition ceremony, Fellows may begin using the FAPPex credential.

Learn more and apply here: www.APPexecutives.org/fellows

08/26/2026

The Advanced Practice Provider (APRN & PA) Leadership Summit is the first and largest conference specifically geared towards advanced practice leadership and administrative topics.

The entire annual conference (summit) is four (4) full days and consists of three (3) components: the advanced practice leadership training seminars (Wed), pre-conference workshops (Thu) and the 2-day summit (Fri & Sat).

19th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Summit
Kimpton Santo San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel
431 South Alamo St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
1(855) 546-7866

Register and book your hotel room here:
www.APPexecutives.org/conferences/advanced-practice-leadership-summit/hotel

08/26/2026

APPex’s annual conference held in September--the Advanced Practice Provider (APRN & PA) Leadership Summit--is the first and largest conference specifically geared towards advanced practice leadership and administrative topics.

APPex members receive a discount:
5% for individual members
10% for corporate members

Group discounts are also available when three or more registrants are from the same organization.

19th Annual Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Summit
Kimpton Santo San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel
431 South Alamo St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
1(855) 546-7866

Register here:
www.APPexecutives.org/conferences/advanced-practice-leadership-summit

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