Diagnosing Wrist Pain for New Nurse Practitioners

Real World NP

English - December 27, 2022 13:00 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 426 ratings
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Wrist pain is a SUPER common chief complaint in primary care. Most of the time, luckily, it’s chronic wrist pain that’s from overuse (versus the more acute, dangerous differential diagnoses with injuries), but it’s still a lot to work through as a new nurse practitioner.

In this week’s episode, I’m covering the overview approach to diagnosing wrist pain in primary care for new nurse practitioners:

✅ What first triage questions to ask

✅ Red flags to watch out for

✅ History questions, physical exam and special tests to perform

✅ When to refer and when to consider getting imaging

Read the blog post here.

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