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Nurse Practitioners in the Growing Field of Retail Healthcare
on Partners in Practice
Healthcare practiced between the grocery store's pharmacy and produce section is becoming one of the largest sectors employing nurse practitioners in the United States. Since retail clinics see patients from the age of 1 to 100 most NPs are family nurse practitioners. Dr. Roger Green, division vice president of the western region of the Kroger grocery store system's Little Clinics, joins host Mimi Secor to talk about why such clinics are so popular among patients and NPs who work in this rapidly growing medical specialty.
 Mimi Secor, MS, FNP-BC, FAANP earned her master's degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts in 1995 and her master's degree in education from Antioch University in Cambridge in 1979.She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, on the board of directors for the Nurse Practitioners Associates for Continuing Education, and member of a number of professional organizations, including Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing; the American Nurses Association; the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, of which she is a founder; and the American College of Clinicians, a national organization for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.Ms. Secor has received several awards for her services and accomplishments in patient care and in education, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including women's health, contraception, the pelvic exam, menopause, and sexually transmitted infections.
Dr. Roger Green is the western division vice president of The Little Clinic, inside select Kroger grocery stores. Dr. Green is board certified as a family nurse practitioner and a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, honored for his health policy work improving prescribing barriers for NPs. He is the founding president of the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network and founding president of the American College of Clinicians. Dr. Green is a frequent lecturer at continuing education programs for NPs across the country, including the International Council of Nurses' advanced practice conference on retail health in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2010.
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