State Liaison Candidate
Campaign Message
I will continue to advocate for and educate NP's and NP students in Vermont in my role as Vermont Sate Liaison to AANP regarding the advantages of being a member of AANP. I will promote the benefits of membership to AANP from the advocacy work AANP performs both on a state and national level for both Vermont NP's and the patients they care for. I also will promote all the educational advantages available to them as a member of AANP, from free CEU's to free digital journal access as well as discounts on all AANP conferences.
Bio Sketch
Maureen Boardman has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for 34 years. She graduated from the University of Maine with my BSN in 1988 and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1991. She has been employed for the last 20 years at Little Rivers Health Care where she is Director of Clinical Quality and Research. She also teaches at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and the Clinical Research Director of the Northern New England Practice & Community Based Research Network. Where she engages in a variety of research projects related to primary care and community-based research. She served on an Agency for Healthcare Research Technical Expert Panel on Primary Care. Maureen is a AANP Shot@Life champion. She was one of 20 nurses chosen from across the country to serve on the National Nurse Vaccine Confidence Project from March of 2021 to September of 2023, this was a national cooperative agreement funded by the CDC to build vaccine confidence Maureen has been a Primary investigator or Co-PI on two NIH grants.Maureen is a Geisel School of Medicine Master Educator. She is a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
What do you think is the biggest challenge facing NPs in the delivery of health care over the next decade? How should AANP address this issue to support NPs and the populations they serve?
The biggest challenge facing NP's in the delivery over health care is the current government administration. The damage that the current administration has done to erode trust in our health care system particularly vaccinations and medical research is going to take a decade if not multiple decades to undo. My believe is for AANP to continue to address these large political health care policy issues in support of both NP's and the populations that we serve, just as they did regarding the firing of all the ACIP board members.
Describe, in detail, leadership and other professional skills that you will bring to AANP and provide at least one initiative or outcome that occurred because of these skills.
My work entails many different worlds. I see patients in clinic at an FQHC 3 days a week and I teach and do research at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine 1-2 days a week, where I also hold leadership positions that have never been held by NP's in the past. One initiative is I started a food farmacy at my FQHC, which helps treat chronic diseases with the availability of fresh food options. When I started it we were receiving 200-300lbs of food a week. We now receive 800-1200 lbs of food a week and serve over 100 patients.
Identify one major challenge that could impact your ability to fulfill the responsibilities of the position you are seeking. How do you plan to manage this challenge to be successful?
Time management is my biggest issue, but I have been able to fulfill the responsibilities of the position for the past 2 years and believe I will continue to be able to do so.
AANP’s mission is to empower all NPs to advance accessible, person-centered, equitable, high-quality health care for diverse communities through practice, education, advocacy, research, and leadership. If elected, how do you propose to advance AANP's mission and strategic plan?
I will continue to do the work that has already been done in Vermont. To advance AANP's mission and strategic plan as a liaison to the Vermont NP association. Also through my work advocating for NP's at the state and national level. Lastly recruiting new members to AANP through both my work with the state NPA as well as through visits to NP programs in the state of Vermont.