Advanced Practice
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A Better Way to Make the CME Allowance Work for Clinicians
Has your CME allowance remained stagnant, while CME costs continue to rise? Here’s how to get the most bang for your allowed buck.
Harness the Power of Neuroscience to Make Learning (or Teaching) Medicine More Efficient
Advanced practitioners are continually learning, from completing annual CME to hands-on education through daily practice, but medical education does not have to be so hard.
Advanced Practitioners Bolster Practice Revenue, Productivity
Primary care practices with a non-physician provider to physician ratio of 0.41 or greater reported earnings of $100K+ more in healthcare revenue per physician.
Why Get the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Degree?
There is a forward push for the DNP to be the required degree in order to practice as an NP, but what is the point of the DNP?
Summer Reading for the Stressed Out Healthcare Practitioner
There is no time like the present to start practicing self care, and Debut A New You, a new book by Mimi Secor, is a fantastic place to begin.
More Nurse Practitioners Now Pursue Residency Programs To Hone Skills
There is a growing cadre of nurse practitioners who tack on up to a year of clinical and other training, often in primary care.
Headaches in the Community
An NP with decades of experience discusses diagnosing and treating patients with headaches, based on what she’s learned by specializing in pediatric headache and pain medicine.
Kim’s Blog: One of the Worst-Ever Days of My Career… and Advocating for Patients
by Kimberly Spering, MSN, FNP-BC
Think about the worst-ever day of your career. Do you have one? Can you recount, in excruciating detail, the episode that you ranked as your “worst-ever?” I’ve had a few… but this experience rates in the top-3 o…
A Day in the Life of a Rural Nurse Practitioner
While the exact daily responsibilities vary according to the type of clinic or office where an NP works, most rural NPs enjoy a great deal of autonomy while performing a wide range of tasks.
From Physician Assistant to PA
“The word ‘assistant’ simply does not do justice to what PAs do in their practices these days,” says AAPA President Jeffrey Katz, PA-C, DFAAPA.