ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ICN would like to thank the following people who provided a preliminary review of the guidelines:

• Fadwa Affara, Consultant, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Fariba Al Darazi, Prior Regional Director of Nursing, WHO, Regional Office of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Bahrain

• Majid Al-Maqbali, Directorate of Nursing, Ministry of Health, Oman

• Michal Boyd, Nurse Practitioner/Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Lenora Brace, President, Nurse Practitioner Association of Canada

• Karen Brennan, Past President, Irish Association of Nurse Practitioners

• Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Professor, McMaster University, Canadian Centre for APN Research

• Jenny Carryer, Professor, Massey University, New Zealand

• Sylvia Cassiani, Regional Advisor for Nursing, Pan American Health Organization

• Irma H. de Hoop, Dutch Association of Nurse Practitioners, Netherlands

• Christine Duffield, Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

• Pilar Espinoza, Director, Postgraduate, research and international affairs at the health care sciences faculty of the San Sebastián University, Chile

• Lisbeth Fagerstrom, Professor, University College of Southeast Norway

• Glenn Gardner, Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

• Nelouise Geyer, CEO, Nursing Education Association, Pretoria, South Africa

• Susan Hassmiller, Senior Advisor for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA

• Heather Henry-McGrath, President, Jamaica Association of Nurse Practitioners, International Ambassador-American Association of Nurse Practitioners

• Simone Inkrot, Sabrina Pelz, Anne Schmitt, Christoph von Dach, APN/ANP Deutches Netzwerk G.E.V., Germany and Switzerland

• Anna Jones, Senior Lecturer, School of Healthcare Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales

• Elke Keinhath, Advanced Practice Nurse, APN/ANP Deutches Netzwerk G.E.V., Germany

• Mabedi Kgositau, International Ambassador-American Association of Nurse Practitioners, University of Botswana

• Sue Kim, Professor, College of Nursing Yonsei University, South Korea

• Karen Koh, Advanced Practice Nurse, National University Hospital, Singapore Nursing Board

• Katrina Maclaine, Associate Professor, London South Bank University

• Vanessa Maderal, Adjunct Professor, University of the Philippines

• Donna McConnell, Lecturer in Nursing, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

• Evelyn McElhinney, Senior lecturer, Programme Lead MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland

• Arwa Oweis, Regional Advisor for Nursing, WHO, Regional Office of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

• Jeroen Peters, Program Director, Nimigen University, Netherlands

• Andrew Scanlon, Associate Professor, Montclair University, Australia

• Bongi Sibanda, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Anglophone Africa APN Coalition Project, Zimbabwe

• Anna Suutaria, Head of International Affairs, Finnish Nurses’ Association

• Peter Ullmann, Chair, APN/ANP Deutsches Netzwerk G.E.V., Germany

• Zhou Wentao, Director, MScN Programme, National University of Singapore

• Kathy Wheeler, Co-chair International Committee, American Association of Nurse Practitioners

• Frances Wong, Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University