AJN Editor-in-Chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with authors Briana Ralston and Julie Fairman about their article “The NP: Celebrating 50 Years.”

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the NP role with the launch of the first NP program at the University of Colorado in 1965. AJN’s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with the authors, both at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of Nursing History at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, about the significance of the role and future directions