{"id":5196,"date":"2019-04-15T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2019-05-02T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:32:39","slug":"dnp-students-meet-with-tennessee-senator-lamar-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/04\/15\/dnp-students-meet-with-tennessee-senator-lamar-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"DNP Students Meet with Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AACN-Policy-Summit-2019-e1554933789596.png\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"AACN Policy Summit 2019\" src=\"https:\/\/722694.smushcdn.com\/1292217\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AACN-Policy-Summit-2019-696x464.png?size=696x464&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" sizes=\"auto, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 1392px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 1392px, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AACN-Policy-Summit-2019-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/news.belmont.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AACN-Policy-Summit-2019-1392x928.png 1392w\" alt=\"AACN Policy Summit 2019\" width=\"511\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Doctor of Nursing Practice students Rebecca Carden and Jennifer Scanlon attended the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Student Policy Summit March 23-25. The three-day conference held in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 immerses students in didactic program sessions focused on the federal policy process and nursing\u2019s role in professional advocacy. On Monday,\u00a0 students\u00a0 joined a delegation of nursing deans and directors from Tennessee, led by Associate Dean of Nursing Dr. Martha Buckner, to visit the senate office staff of both Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Marsha Blackburn. Senator Alexander was able to join the group to discuss the importance of funding for nursing education and workforce initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor of Nursing Practice students Rebecca Carden and Jennifer Scanlon attended the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Student Policy Summit March 23-25. The three-day conference held in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 immerses students in didactic program sessions focused on the federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2019\/04\/15\/dnp-students-meet-with-tennessee-senator-lamar-alexander\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}