By Pareasa Rahimi

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Instructor and Co-Coordinator of the Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty Alexandra Armstrong, MSN, CRNP, CPNP‐AC (MSN 2014), is the recipient of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Child Maltreatment and Neglect Special Interest Group Award. This award recognizes an advanced practice provider working in pediatrics who is advancing the mission of the child maltreatment and neglect special interest group.

Armstrong received the award in recognition of her work with the Alliance for Children in Foster Care, a NAPNAP partner organization she co-chairs, which supports children and adolescents in foster care.

“Through my involvement in the Child Maltreatment and Neglect Special Interest Group and the Alliance for Children in Foster Care, I have been able to support education for health care providers specific to this vulnerable population with the hope of improving outcomes,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong is a Pediatric Endocrinology Nurse Practitioner at Children’s of Alabama. She has held multiple leadership roles within NAPNAP’s Alabama Chapter, serving as President from 2020 to 2021, Secretary from 2021 to 2022 and currently as Philanthropy Chair. She also is Secretary of the NAPNAP Child Maltreatment and Neglect special interest group. In 2023, she was named a NAPNAP Emerging Leader. Her research on hospital regulation of pediatric nurse practitioner practice was published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners and presented at NAPNAP’s national conference in 2022. Armstrong also serves on the Junior Board of Breakthrough T1D Alabama. In May, she received the Level II Nursing Excellence Achievement Award from Children’s of Alabama.