Real World NP
109 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 426 ratingsHi, I’m Liz Rohr: family nurse practitioner, wife, parent, and founder of Real World NP, a continuing education company for new nurse practitioners in primary care.
I’m on a mission to equip and guide new nurse practitioners so they can feel confident and capable through comprehensive, concise, and hyper-relevant educational resources, without the fluff. We’re also here to provide an approachable, supportive community in order to bring about a new generation of healthcare providers who know that they can make an impact & inevitably disrupt the healthcare industry.
Each week you’ll hear a mix of clinical pearls and practice tips, guest interviews with specialists and allied health professionals, and guidance on navigating the role transition from RN to NP. Make sure you subscribe and leave a review so you won’t miss an episode. Plus, you’ll find links to all the episodes, plus extra goodies over at realworldnp.com/podcast.
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Monkeypox for Nurse Practitioners - Part 1
August 10, 2022 12:00 - 20 minutes - 38.5 MB**ERROR UPDATE** I mistakenly said that cotton swabs can be used but it's ONLY synthetic swabs for monkeypox testing!! Link for testing instructions here. Monkeypox has been confusing and scary for patients and providers alike, especially on the heels of the Covid pandemic that we’re still facing. The WHO named it a public health emergency and global outbreak, as has the CDC, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s as scary as it sounds. At the time of this episode, there have been about 7,...
Pap Screening in Primary Care
August 02, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 35.8 MBPaps. How can such a common primary care intervention cause so much confusion? How often to screen, how to understand any findings that are not black and white, how to advise your patient about next steps – you would not be the first NP to feel overwhelmed with abnormal pap results in your inbox. This week, we’ll take some of the mystery out of this challenging clinical topic, and help you understand the main points that will guide your treatment. We’ll talk about: ✅ Current guidelines, an...
AANP President Interview
July 26, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 68.4 MBWhether you are a brand-new NP or you have been practicing for a while, the AANP has likely done something that has made your job easier. But what does the AANP actually do and how does it work? In this special one-on-one interview with Stephen Ferrara, President-elect of the AANP, we got the opportunity to ask him questions from the Real World NP community. We talked about: ✅ What AANP is (and what it isn’t) ✅ How the NP educational system works ✅ Key differences between medical and ...
Managing Depression In The Primary Care Setting
July 19, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 35.7 MBDepression in the primary care setting – super common. With a shortage of mental health providers and increasing numbers of patients with symptoms, depression is becoming a leading primary care health concern. If you feel unsure or unprepared for these patient encounters, you are in the right place. This week, we’re taking some of the mystery out of working with patients with depression in the primary care setting. We’ll cover: ✅ Red flags of depression assessment, and how to handle them w...
Treating Patients With Insomnia
July 12, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 33.4 MBBy the time the patient with insomnia makes it to primary care, they have probably been struggling with sleep for a while, and have probably tried some things on their own – without luck. And now they’re hoping YOU can fix it, preferably…tonight? Insomnia is a murky clinical topic; it’s not always as simple as not getting enough sleep. If you aren’t sure where to start with the patient with insomnia, let’s get you sure. This week, we’ll talk about: ✅ Sleep hygiene – what it is and why it’s...
Does it Get Better as a Nurse Practitioner?
July 05, 2022 12:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBLet’s be real: the first few years of practice as an NP can be TOUGH. Not only do you have this vast amount of new clinical knowledge to put into practice, you’re also learning the ins and outs of how a clinic runs (for better or worse), and adjusting to being the place where the buck stops. Is it really surprising that you are wondering if it gets better? It’s a kind of taboo topic, even though it’s a common question that most NPs ask (if only to themselves). It’s also time to put a spotli...
Simple Hypercalcemia Workup (with Case Study): Lab Interpretation for New Nurse Practitioners
June 28, 2022 12:00 - 20 minutes - 37.4 MBLabs interpretation for new nurse practitioners can be confusing, and most new grads don't feel well-prepared by what they learned in NP school. In this podcast episode, I break it down with a SUPER interesting case study from my first year as an NP, and make the approach super simple with 3 steps, including the top do-not-miss diagnoses. Join us for the Lab Interpretation Crash Course for Nurse Practitioners here. Read the full blog post. _______________________________ © 2022 Real Wor...
Managing Anxiety in Primary Care for New Nurse Practitioners
June 21, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 33.8 MBManaging anxiety in primary care is super common, but especially now during the pandemic quarantine. In this podcast, you'll learn: ✅ When it's anxiety... and when it's not ✅ How to assess symptoms, history and the best tools to make it faster and easier ✅ The step-by-step to manage anxiety, and what to do if it's not working. There's SO much I could say about anxiety and mental health, let me know what questions you have or topics you want to hear more about. Grab your cheat sheet her...
Diagnosing Migraine in Primary Care
June 14, 2022 12:00 - 7 minutes - 14.6 MBYour friend, your aunt, your patient in your primary care office - everyone seems to be talking about migraines. But is it a headache or is it a migraine? How do you know the difference? As a new grad, it’s not unusual to feel like you have been thrown into the deep end when patients present with a migraine or a headache. It’s not a super black and white topic, and patients sometimes have a hard time describing their symptoms, which adds to the challenge. This week, we’ll talk about what m...
Diagnosing Headache in Primary Care: Red Flags
June 07, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 23.5 MBPatients who come into primary care for a headache are often worried that it’s something very serious - and it’s your job to know whether it is or not. Many headaches are nothing overly serious, but as a new grad, it can be hard to know just how concerned to be and what to do with your concern. Let’s build your confidence and demystify some of the grey areas of headaches. In this video, we’ll cover: ✅ A simple tool that you can use to guide your visit, assessment, and plan ✅ Specifi...
LGBTQIA+ Competency for Healthcare Providers: Interview with Terra Anderson
May 31, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 69.3 MBLGBTQIA+ cultural competency helps not only our patients to feel safer, seen, and supported, but it also improves health outcomes. Many providers aren’t sure what that competency looks like, or even where to start. It’s more than the correct pronouns and language – but how much more? In this week’s episode, we talk with Terra Anderson, who uses they/them pronouns, is a somatic therapist, and LGBTQIA+ educator about how providers can improve their competency when working with LGBTQIA+ patien...
Workup for Syncope in Primary Care
May 24, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 26.4 MBIf even thinking about a patient with syncope makes you feel a little lightheaded yourself, you are in the right place. Your patient passed out, so their family insisted that they see their PCP. Now they’re in your exam room, and you need a roadmap to see what happened, what is going on, and how we got here. Let’s talk about how to approach the visit for the patient with syncope in primary care, why you will want to work backward to assess them, the four main categories of syncope, and mor...
How to Give Feedback to Your Medical Assistant
May 17, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 34 MBHave you found yourself needing to give feedback to your MA or support staff – with no idea where to start? You are not alone. As an NP, your role is unique; you’re not the boss, yet you are expected to give some level of guidance and leadership. And when what a staff member is doing isn’t working, that message usually needs to come from you. Let’s talk about how to give feedback to your MA or support staff in a way that is constructive, positive, and won’t leave either of you feeling li...
Decreased Appetite in Children
May 10, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 34.4 MBContext is key for the pediatric patient with decreased appetite. Getting a sense of what is normal for the patient and their overall health goes a long way in deciding how to approach the visit. This week, let’s talk about where to start when you see these patients, and how to get the context that is so essential for these visits. ✅ What to know about the patient before you even walk into the exam room ✅ When to ask broad questions, when to ask targeted questions – and why ✅ Which body ...
Well Child Check Hacks for Nurse Practitioners
May 03, 2022 19:41 - 12 minutes - 26 MBWell child visits can be very intimidating for new Nurse Practitioners, even if you love working with children. There are so many questions to ask, so many developmental elements to consider – it’s easy to feel a lot of pressure not to miss anything in these visits. This week, let’s talk about ways to come into these visits with tools to make it easier for you and to set your mind at ease. ✅ Top things to know for well child visits ✅ My favorite resources for pedi milestones ✅ How to pla...
Diagnostic Approach to Fatigue in Primary Care
April 26, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutes - 28.2 MBFatigue is a tricky clinical topic that can seem overwhelming in a primary care visit – sometimes even for the seasoned NP. Having a game plan can help with the stress of these visits and increase your confidence when you see these patients. In this week’s episode, let’s talk about what you need to know to be prepared for the patient with fatigue. ✅ Strategies to approaching diagnosis ✅ How to get the history you need ✅ The body systems you MUST assess ✅ Chronic causes to rule in/out ✅...
Pancreatitis Diagnosis for New Nurse Practitioners
April 19, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 22.5 MBEpigastric pain as a chief complaint happens ALL the time in primary care. And we all order labs to help rule out pancreatitis, but most clinicians feel uncomfortable with diagnosing pancreatitis in primary care. Even though it’s not that common, it’s certainly a red flag diagnosis to watch out for. In this episode I cover: ✅ The main causes of pancreatitis ✅ What labs to order and what to look out for ✅ The criteria for diagnosing pancreatitis ✅ The next steps to take when you suspect ...
Diagnosing Abdominal Pain for New Nurse Practitioners
April 12, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 20.4 MBSome chief complaints are more stressful than others. Abdominal pain is CERTAINLY one of them, especially for new nurse practitioners. In this episode, I give my top systematic hacks for diagnosing abdominal pain in the primary care setting to make sure you’re not missing anything and are providing safe care. Read the blog post here. ------ Download the FREE Ultimate Resource Guide for NP _______________________________ © 2022 Real World NP. For educational and informational purposes o...
Acute Diarrhea Diagnosis for New Nurse Practitioners: Part 2
April 07, 2022 12:00 - 15 minutes - 31.7 MBPatients presenting with an acute diarrheal illness is one of the MOST common chief complaints in primary care. They’re also typically worried, wondering if they need antibiotics AND usually want some sort of testing. My last episode was part one of assessing this chief complaint, and I focused on the important history questions, physical assessment and the most important risk factors and triage components. Definitely go back and check that out if you haven’t already here: https://www.realw...
Acute Diarrhea Diagnosis for New Nurse Practitioners
April 05, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 33 MBAcute diarrhea is SUCH a common chief complaint in primary care. In this week’s episode I’m covering acute diarrhea diagnosis for new nurse practitioners in primary care. Including: The approach to diagnosis What “doorways” to keep track of The most important history questions Triaging the most dangerous presentations Whether to order labs or not! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How to Manage Nurse Practitioner Stress, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
March 29, 2022 12:00 - 17 minutes - 31.7 MBThe transition from RN to NP is TOUGH. It's exhausting, stressful, but oh so worth it. We need to be careful, though, because too much stress and not enough strategic prevention can lead to burnout and something called compassion fatigue, which can fizzle out our drive and passion-- and worse, may even lead to leaving the profession altogether. In this episode, I'm covering: - The risk factors, signs and symptoms of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue (it's not necessarily what you thi...
Weight Management Part 2- Medication Management
March 24, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 28.9 MBPrescribing weight loss medications in primary care is SUCH a common challenge for new nurse practitioners. It feels like there are so many options and things to keep track of. This week’s episode is a follow up from the last episode about weight management counseling-- all about weight loss medications in primary care. This week I cover: ✅ Which patients are candidates for weight loss medication ✅ The three main types of medications, side effects to watch out for ✅ Goal setting and wha...
Weight Management Part 1- Lifestyle Intervention and Counseling
March 22, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 30.5 MBWeight management counseling in primary care is such an important skill, and it’s truly the foundation that patients need before we can start addressing weight loss medications. In this week’s episode, I’m covering my approach to weight management counseling in primary care, that will hopefully help you feel more confident in your visits. I cover: ✅ How to talk to patients, including actual easy scripted phrases to use so you get the information you need and they feel supported ✅ Special...
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction for New Nurse Practitioners
March 17, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 41 MBI’m SO excited to share this interview with you. I’m interviewing two pelvic floor therapists -- a family nurse practitioner who has gotten additional training, and a physical therapist with a specialty in pelvic floor therapy. This is SO IMPORTANT. It seems like a hidden corner of medicine that we don’t learn about in school, or maybe it’s touched on when it comes to dyspareunia or urinary incontinence, but it’s so much more than that and we have the power to be so helpful for patients. I...
Interview with a Physical Therapist
March 15, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 109 MBInterdisciplinary collaboration is SO important in primary care. It’s a tragedy when we’re each rockstars in our own bubble of a profession, but aren’t collaborating or communicating enough to fully understand what each profession actually does. I’m absolutely obsessed with physical therapy, and it’s a HUGE key to success for patients with musculoskeletal complaints in primary care-- but I didn’t really see how it worked on the other side until I was a patient myself. In this week’s episod...
How to Delegate Effectively as a Nurse Practitioner
March 10, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 107 MBWhen we’re nurse practitioner students, we’re so focused on the clinical aspects of our jobs that most of the time when we graduate, we’ve caught by surprise. There’s an entirely new role we need to step into as well: delegating, supervising and managing staff members. It’s especially tricky when you’re supervising someone, but you’re not technically their boss-- like medical assistants and nurses. And it’s also difficult because as nurses, we’re so used to working as a team, pitching in,...
How to Navigate Scheduling Issues for Nurse Practitioners
March 08, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes - 36.1 MBWhen I became a new nurse practitioner, I was so focused on learning the clinical pieces that it never occurred to me to learn more about the business of primary care. Once I was on the job, I realized how crucial it is to understand those pieces and how I fit as a clinician in the primary care office ecosystem. This is particularly relevant when it comes to scheduling patients. It seems like a minor thing, but it causes a lot of nurse practitioners painful headaches, and can be tricky to ...
How Primary Care Offices Work for New Nurse Practitioners
March 03, 2022 13:00 - 14 minutes - 36.3 MBAs nurse practitioners, we primarily learn the clinical aspects of practice. For good reason-- we’re taking care of real patients’ lives. But there’s a whole lot more to learn on the job, from delegation and leadership, to navigating day-to-day challenges in the ecosystem of a clinic. I was SO focused on learning the clinical parts as a new NP, that I was caught by surprise at my first job. I didn’t realize how primary care offices work-- the business of running a clinic -- and the role I n...
Interview with a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
March 01, 2022 13:00 - 51 minutes - 104 MBOne of the struggles for new nurse practitioners in primary care is managing women’s health topics, and knowing if and when to refer to an OBGYN specialist. We want to do things the right way and use resources we can trust. In this week’s episode, I’m interviewing Monica Carter, who is a family nurse practitioner who has practiced in the women’s health setting for the last 13 years. She dropped SO many pearls and pitfalls of practice, and is truly a gem of a human. We answered questions fro...
Time Management for Nurse Practitioners: Inbox
February 24, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 28.5 MBThere’s SO much to manage as a new nurse practitioner, on top of developing your clinical knowledge, making a thousand decisions a day and becoming a leader in the healthcare space. The better your time management, the more time to get your work done and ACTUALLY rest at the end of the day. In this episode, I’m covering the rest of what we do in a day in the life as nurse practitioners-- inbox management and the time management strategies to make it all easier. I go over: ✅ The types of d...
HSV Diagnosis for Nurse Practitioners
February 22, 2022 16:58 - 11 minutes - 28.4 MBSo often in primary care, patients come in asking for testing for herpes, whether they have symptoms or not. Sometimes it’s because they “want to be tested for everything,” or are concerned about an exposure from a partner. As a new nurse practitioner, I wasn’t always confident about the best approach. In this week’s episode, I’m covering: ✅ When to consider HSV, and the unlikely ways it can present ✅ What the difference between primary, non-primary initial and recurrent infections are, a...
Updated Billing and Coding for Nurse Practitioners
February 17, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes - 29.4 MBBilling and coding clinic office visits are probably not the first thing nurse practitioners think of when they graduate. It's probably more like: Phew! I’m so so so glad that's over. What comes next?! How am I going to find a job? I’m not going to worry about that right now because... ...I'm finally done with NP school! 👩⚕️🦄💪 But unfortunately, the skill set of medical billing and coding is one of the first major frustrations that new nurse practitioners encounter on the job. And d...
Billing and Coding for Nurse Practitioners
February 15, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 53.8 MBBilling and coding your office visits for for your office visits can feel overwhelming, tedious and too-hard-to-learn. But, one under-charge here and there may not seem like much, but when you add them all up... In this week's episode, though, I'm breaking it down SUPER simply (with a cheat sheet!) Plug the data in and out pops the right E&M code to use. You'll learn: ✅ How to accurately bill for new and established office visits (primary care only!) ✅ The key differences between level ...
When you Want to Give up as a Nurse Practitioner
February 08, 2022 22:45 - 14 minutes - 16.4 MBI recently got the question from a new nurse practitioner, “what do you do when you want to give up as a nurse practitioner?” I’ve definitely been there before myself, and with the stress of this last year and a half, I know a lot of other new nurse practitioners and NP students are feeling that way, too. In this week’s episode, I’m covering what to do when you feel like this, including: The most important questions to ask yourself to help sort through your feelings and get to the root of...
Approach to Hair Loss for New Nurse Practitioners
January 25, 2022 22:49 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MBPatients coming into primary care with a chief complaint of hair loss can be so stressful as a new nurse practitioner. First, let’s normalize this. It’s a broad differential and can be tricky to parse out. It can also feel really stressful and emotional for your patient presenting for care, which adds even more pressure. In this week’s episode, I’m covering how to approach hair loss in primary care, the differential diagnoses, history, physical exam and testing highlights for new nurse pra...
Diabetes Case Study in Mentorship for Nurse Practitioners
January 18, 2022 19:43 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBSo many new grads are most worried about building their clinical knowledge base-- for good reason! But it’s one thing to prepare for clinical topics-- researching algorithms, choosing the best practice based on the evidence-- but an entirely different experience trying to apply them to the “real world.” Through Real World NP, I have the awesome privilege to work with new grad nurse practitioners on-on-one in mentorship calls. Some of mentorship is reassuring new grad NPs about their clini...
New Nurse Practitioner Transition - You're Not Alone
December 21, 2021 20:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MBThis has been on my heart this week - between working 1 on 1 with mentees and seeing the landscape online of new grad nurse practitioners, I see this ALL the time. Feeling like you're the only one feeling this way. Feeling behind, not knowing enough, and then beating yourself up for it. If this sounds like you, take a listen-- sometimes just naming and acknowledging what's ACTUALLY going on makes a difference in how you're feeling about it. Read the blog post here. ----------------------...
Time Saving Tips for New Nurse Practitioners
December 14, 2021 20:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBHow did your entire visit get eaten up by getting the HPI? What are you supposed to do in a visit with the complicated patients with 17 chronic conditions? I learned many time-management lessons the hard way in my first year of practice, and they're the same patterns I see in my NP students and new grads I've worked with. In this episode you'll learn time-saving tips to help before, during and after your visits so you can be more timely with your patients (and do less charting at home and ...
New Nurse Practitioner Visit Routines
December 07, 2021 21:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBKeeping your head on straight while juggling so many moving pieces in a typical day as a nurse practitioner is TOUGH. I heavily rely on structure and routines to make sure I keep it all straight — and I don't miss anything! In this episode, I go over my routines with new patients, annual physicals, follow-up visits and sick visits, so you can stay on track and make sure you've got all the info you need. PLUS: my cheat-sheet I give all my students (and I used for the first year+ ... litera...
Chronic Care Conversations
November 23, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBI love caring for patients with chronic conditions now, but it wasn’t always the case. Like so many new grads, I struggled with caring for patients managing chronic conditions -- where to start, how to proceed, feeling like we weren’t making any progress towards “control” of those conditions (diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, etc). When I was a new nurse practitioner, I was incredibly focused on the diagnostic algorithms and medication management. Which, of course, is crucial ...
Chronic care visits for new nurse practitioners
November 16, 2021 21:10 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBChronic care conditions are a big part of working in primary care, but they’re also complex, time-consuming, and stressful to treat, especially for new nurse practitioners. So this week, we’re going to do a walkthrough of how you can conduct these visits, but in a way that that feels timely, organized, and safe! In this video, I touch on the 4 most important steps to take in each chronic care visit: ✅ Reconciling medications ✅ Assessing the status of their condition ✅ Identifying the r...
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) for new nurse practitioners
November 09, 2021 21:15 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWhen I was a new grad, I thought I’d never master CKD. It was so stressful because, as you probably know very well, unmanaged CKD can lead to kidney failure. But the more I’ve learned and practiced medicine, the easier it gets. And now? I’m obsessed with CKD — it’s one of my favorite clinical topics to explore these days. So hopefully in this week’s video, I can share some shortcuts to understanding CKD and making patient assessment and care easier. ✅ The basics of staging CKD ✅ When ...
Resistant hypertension for new nurse practitioners (Part 2)
November 02, 2021 20:00 - 10 minutes - 9.61 MBIn Part 2 of our Resistant Hypertension videos, I’m looking at hyperaldosteronism, or high aldosterone levels, as a cause for treatment-resistant hypertension — and an underrecognized one at that. So what is high aldosterone? Where does it come from? When do you check for it? What causes it? If a patient has high aldosterone, what do you do next? Let’s dig in! Note that assessing for this may be out of your practice comfort zone — and that’s totally fine! But it’s still important to kno...
Interview with a pharmacist
October 26, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBBoth pharmacists and nurse practitioners play a critical role in medication management for patients. But we don’t always understand what we can do for one another, which can lead to confusion, frustration, and missed opportunities. Finding ways to collaborate and build professional bridges, however, can improve outcomes for everyone. In this week’s video, I talk with Miriam Ahmed, a pharmacist based in Canada who also runs the educational Instagram platform, @rxnotes. We dive into import...
Resistant Hypertension (Part 1)
October 20, 2021 03:50 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBResistant hypertension is a common chief complaint in primary care clinics. But for new nurse practitioners, there’s a lot to sort through. In this video, I walk through the thought processes and approaches to managing resistant hypertension in primary care. ✅ How to talk about medication adherence with patients ✅ The role of ongoing blood pressure checks — both in clinic and at home ✅ Considerations for current medications and dosing ✅ How to investigate the secondary causes of hyper...
Diagnostic approach to dizziness
October 13, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBDizziness alone accounts for about 5% of all primary care office visits in the US. 5%! That's a huge number. But as a chief complaint, dizziness is somewhat nebulous. The causes of dizziness can run the gamut from annoying-but-benign to yikes-let's-get-you-to-the-ER. So how do you sift through all the possibilities and uncover what’s really going on with your patient? In Diagnostic Approach to Dizziness, we walk NPs through the basics of assessing patients who are experiencing dizzines...
Diagnostic approach to back pain
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBBack pain — it’s truly one of the most common issues you come across in primary care. That’s why you need to have your diagnostic approach to it down pat as a nurse practitioner. And the sooner you get comfortable diagnosing back pain in primary care, the sooner you’ll feel confident helping your patients on their road to recovery. In this week’s episode, we talk about why you should really take a triage-based approach to back pain — among other chief complaints — plus other hot takes on...
Interview with an Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner
September 28, 2021 21:29 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBIt’s super common for new NPs — and experienced ones — to get anxious when encountering orthopedic complaints. It’s a conundrum — on one hand, it seems like it should be simple. After all, you can feel all the musculoskeletal body structures right there. But at the same time, there are so many (SO MANY!) nuances to each body part. And there’s a lot of ortho lingo to wrap your head around. That’s why it’s helpful to understand exactly what an orthopedic nurse practitioner does — and wha...
How to Get a Patient History
September 21, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBDo you ever find yourself spending an ENTIRE 20-minute visit just getting a history? And even with all that time, do you still leave the room feeling like you didn't even get the info you needed? In this episode, I'm sharing my top tips for not only a FASTER history, but also a more accurate one — so you can take great care of your patients while saving time and, quite honestly, health care dollars. You'll learn: My top tip to keep your patient visits moving Pitfalls of where you could ...
Lower Extremity Edema Causes - A Case Study for New Nurse Practitioners
September 14, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBSeeing "lower leg swelling" as the chief complaint for patients as a new nurse practitioner was incredibly stressful. What’s the best course of action? Should you give diuretics for symptom control? Is this something serious...or something totally ordinary? I had a super interesting case the other week and knew immediately that I had to share it with you — and it was one that I actually got a double-check from my colleague on! In this episode, you'll learn: The top DDXs - most common and ...