Continuing Education for NP’s real-world needs
Real World NP is an online medical education company offering tools, resources, and support for nurse practitioners. Since 2019, we've created comprehensive, concise, and relevant medical continuing educational materials for nurse practitioners based on their real-world needs.
We are honored to have become a go-to source for so many nurse practitioners on their professional journeys.
About Real World NP
Bridging the Gap Between Grad School and Real-World Primary Care
Real World NP is a continuing education company for nurse practitioners in primary care — created to bridge the gap between what you learned in school and what it actually takes to thrive in real-world practice.
Founded in 2019, we’ve helped over 20,000 nurse practitioners gain clarity and confidence through our courses, digital products, podcast, and YouTube channel — all designed to make day-to-day practice simpler, safer, and more sustainable.
We’re also in the process of becoming ANCC-accredited, with official accreditation anticipated in January 2026.
Most CE companies focus only on clinical knowledge, but we’re here to support nurse practitioners holistically.
Our work centers around three core pillars that every NP needs to succeed in primary care:
1. Real-World Clinical Knowledge — Without the Fluff
We cover the topics you wish had been in grad school — the conditions, workflows, and nuances you see every day in primary care.
Our resources are concise, practical, and built for real-world use, so you can apply what you learn right away.
2. The Real-World Skills of Practice
Being a nurse practitioner isn’t just about diagnosing and prescribing.
It’s about learning how to:
Bill and code visits correctly
Communicate effectively with specialists
Manage your time in a chaotic system
These are the skills no one teaches — but every NP needs.
We also bring in specialists who teach using the Real World NP style: clear, digestible, and focused on what matters most for primary care.
3. Leadership, Boundaries, and Sustainability
AKA the transition from RN to NP.
You can’t care for others if you’re burned out yourself.
We help NPs develop the leadership and boundary-setting skills that make this career sustainable — without the toxic “self-care” buzzwords.
It’s about reclaiming your humanity, working smarter, and leading from a grounded, compassionate place.
What makes Real World NP Different
Our RWNP Values
At Real World NP, we believe continuing education should reflect the real world we practice in — including the inequities that shape it.
We apply an equity and liberatory lens to everything we do — from course design to marketing to how we run our company.
That means we’re always learning, growing, and inviting our community to do the same — with humility, openness, and action.
Equity, Humanity, Integrity
Recent studies show that burn out rate in our field is 25% among nurse practitioners and 33% among physician associates…with experts attributing 80% of clinician burnout to the chaotic work environment and only 20% to personal factors. Another survey found that around 20% of nurse practitioners were looking to leave the field within the year…because of the nature of our real world as an NP.
So, in 2019, with a passion for education and being an NP; a dedication to equity with my own mentors within my business; the desire to make the lives of NPs better all around, reduce our transitional stress and improve our working experience in our fields; and the goal of helping as many other NPs navigate the real world challenges of transitioning from school into the reality of practice, I started Real World NP.
I built Real World NP- our educational resources and accredited courses- around these goals and developed our unique teaching style we’ve become known for- practical, comprehensive, to the point without fluff- specifically with my experience going through that transition and burnout as an NP in mind. Real World NP is everything I wish I had to help make the transition to practice easier.
Now, my team and I use what we've learned as nurse practitioners to help new PCPs find peace of mind through continuing education courses and guidance they trust, so they can take the best care of their patients and make the world a better place. We’re honored to have educated and supported thousands of nurse practitioners- both new and experienced- and are excited to continue to work to make healthcare a better, more equitable place (and help others sustainably navigate it in the meantime).
MEET OUR FOUNDERI'm Liz Rohr, FNP-BC
(they/them)
After finally feeling competent as a nurse practitioner 3 years into practice, I was so burned out I almost left the profession altogether. I knew there had to be a better way to adjust to real-world practice…a way to create sustainable careers and lives for NPs while improving the care for our patients within a system that is deeply flawed and makes healthcare difficult in many ways for both practitioners and patients.
Grad school offers us a great foundation for our clinical knowledge- but so many NPs feel massively unprepared for the experience they have when they step into actual practice. We often times feel like we were missing some clinical knowledge we wish we had and scrambling to find the resources in real time… and even more than that- we wish someone had prepared us for chaotic work environments, the challenges of navigating our healthcare system with billing, administratively and operationally running your practice, interdisciplinary collaborations and communications between us and specialists…and the list goes on.
Let Real World NP Support You
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Courses & Products
We have a variety of workshops, courses and NP tools.
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Podcast & Blog
Our Podcast & Blogs are full of educational content as well as guidance from seasoned pros in our articles and popular podcast episodes.
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Education straight to inbox
In addition to our courses, articles and podcast episodes covering a variety of topics, we send our emails full of clinical pearls + insights straight to your inbox for quick learning on the go!
Work With Us
Let's build something EPIC together
We're growing a business, but we're also growing a culture.
We're always looking for collaborators who want to help support nurse practitioners and to help change the healthcare industry. If this sounds like you, then what are you waiting for?
If you're looking to collaborate on a podcast episode, article, or a continuing education course, please visit our Work With Us page. We review these periodically as we plan our content.