The Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners(JAANP) is an AANP membership benefit and is the official journal of the AANP. It is a peer-reviewed professional journal published monthly and is distributed to more than 24,000 readers each month.

Published since 1989, the JAANP is designed to serve the needs of nurse practitioners and other health care professionals who have a major interest in primary, acute and/or long-term health care. The JAANP publishes timely original, peer-reviewed articles addressing clinical practice, clinical management, health policy, research, education and other issues affecting nurse practitioners and other primary, acute and/or long-term health care providers.

The Editor-In-Chief is Charon Pierson, PhD, FAANP.  E-mail cpierson@aanp.org.  For general JAANP information contact the AANP journal office at journal@aanp.org or phone
512-442-4262 x 5233.

The JAANP is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Company.