On October 9, 2015, the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) hosted the second Nurse Practitioner Research Agenda Roundtable in Washington, D.C. Twenty Roundtable participants represented a number of nurse practitioner (NP) stakeholder organizations and were selected based on their knowledge of the existing body of knowledge regarding NPs.
The purpose of the Roundtable was to revisit and revise the 2010 NP Research Agenda. During a sequence of robust facilitated discussions, participants clarified and updated the Research Agenda, highlighting critical research priorities for the next five years, as well as strategies to promote awareness and implementation of the Roundtable recommendations.
Participants focused their discussion on research priorities in four cross-cutting areas: policy and regulation, practice models, NP workforce and characteristics and education. Within each of these areas, topics were identified and prioritized through a series of plenary and small-group discussions. Participants also discussed potential barriers and challenges in achieving the agenda, as well as strategies to address these challenges.