On Vanderbilt’s first PrimEx program and its role in the movement toward Nurse Practitioners
Rosie Hammond describes her life post-SHC, beginning with an invitation to participate in Vanderbilt’s first PrimEx program during her Senior year. PrimEx was a government-sponsored initiative designed to provide primary care training for nurses. It functioned as a pivotal step along the way to better defining the concept of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and establishing graduate-level …