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 Thomas
W. Barkley, Jr., DSN, ACNP-BC, FAANP is President of Barkley &
Associates, Inc., dedicated to providing the nation’s best nurse
practitioner certification review/clinical update and continuing
education courses. He is also a Professor of Nursing and Director of
Nurse Practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs at California
State University, Los Angeles. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Barkley has been
actively teaching, developing, and implementing nurse practitioner
continuing education offerings both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Barkley’s clinical background and practice are in critical and
acute care nursing, where he holds national certification as an acute
care nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
He received a bachelor of science in nursing degree from the University
of Alabama, a master’s degree in critical care nursing from the
University of Virginia, and holds the doctor of science in nursing
degree with a specialty in nursing education and nursing education
administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also
distinguished as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners.
In addition to his classroom and practice
responsibilities, Dr. Barkley is the primary editor of the American
Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year award-winning text, Practice
Guidelines for Acute Care Nurse Practitioners. He has also
published numerous refereed articles related to acute care nursing
practice, nursing education, and multicultural HIV/AIDS prevention.
Using expertise gleaned from his years of experience, Dr. Barkley
annually assists thousands of nurse practitioners with successful
passing of their initial national certification
exams. His company offers the most extensive number of different
specialty live certification review/clinical update courses in the
country. Additionally, Barkley & Associates provides the nation’s
leading continuing education expertise in 24/7 online pharmacology
updates for all nurse practitioners.
While dually prepared as
both an ACNP and ANP, Dr. Barkley frequently presents numerous
continuing education courses both nationally and internationally, with
consistently outstanding evaluations. As a dynamic and engaging speaker,
he frequently co-presents with other expert faculty in many of Barkley &
Associates' courses.
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