About APRNet

In April 2000, APRNet was established as a regional Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) with a federal grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). To date, most PBRNs have been governed by physicians who support them. Therefore, questions of interest to other primary care clinicians generally haven not been pursued. As a result little useful data exist on the practice of APRNs, especially with regard to those aspects of APRN practice that go beyond comparative analyses of the substitution of APRNs for physicians.

The establishment of APRNet was led by Dr. Margaret Grey (formerly Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs and now Dean of Yale University School of Nursing) in association with a Planning Committee comprised of APRNs from six New England Schools of Nursing (Yale, Boston College, University of Connecticut, University of Rhode Island, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Worcester).

Because of this cooperation, the geographic distribution of APRNet members covers the entire New England region. We have over 60 members, representing more than 50 practice sites, providing a range of primary health care services to largely minority and underserved populations in urban and rural New England settings.