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Sharing clinical pearls & practice tips from experienced primary care nurse practitioner mentors. So you can learn faster and take the best care of your patients.
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Hi, I’m Liz Rohr: family nurse practitioner, 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.
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- Billing and Coding
- BIPOC in Healthcare
- Burnout
- Cardiology
- Career Resources
- Chronic Care
- Clinical Topics
- Contraceptives
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Drama Triangle
- Empowering Equity
- Endocrine
- Equity In Healthcare
- Financial Planning
- GI
- GU
- Hematology
- Infectious Disease
- Interviews
- Lab Interpretation
- Lauryn Williams
- Mentorship
- Mindset
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- New Nurse Practitioner Tips
- NP Students
- OB/GYN
- On the job learning
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Psych
- Pulmonary
- Real World Topics
- Role Transition
- Time Management Tips
- Tricky Cases
- Urgent Care
Episodes
Navigating confrontation at Work as an NP
This episode focuses on leadership and role transition questions, specifically addressing a scenario where a new nurse practitioner is struggling with confrontational conversations with nursing staff.
Path to Overcoming Disillusionment in Healthcare with Rebecca Arnold
This week’s podcast feels like a coming home. Rebecca Arnold is a holistic leadership coach and a dear friend of mine. We spotlight the experience of feeling disillusioned with healthcare, and what it’s like to be an empathic, ambitious, caring person to feel like a cog in a broken system.
How to Negotiate a Raise for Nurse Practitioners with Amanda Guarniere
In this conversation, Liz Rohr and Amanda Guarniere discuss negotiating a raise as a nurse practitioner. They emphasize the importance of collecting data about your job performance and your value to the organization.
Unexpected Mentorship Questions from New NPs - Interview with Kara Pesola, NP
As the Director of Clinical Training at a Federally Qualified Health Center primary care practice, my dear friend Kara Pesola has a front-row seat to see the types of mentorship questions new nurse practitioners have.
Advice for Creating New NP Mentorship Programs
Mentorship programs for new nurse practitioners are nothing less than life-changing. Mentorship programs can help ease the transition to practice for new nurse practitioners, providing guidance, reducing burnout, and building new clinicians' confidence to take excellent care of their patients.
Bridging the Gap: Primary Care and Specialty Care Courses for Nurse Practitioners - Need Your Input!
Even though we learn so much in school, our learning in medicine never stops. Resources like Up-to-Date and Dynamed can be helpful, but sometimes we need specific courses for nurse practitioners in primary care.
Reimagining Continuing Education for Nurse Practitioners
Welcome back to Season 3 of the Real World NP Podcast! This episode is an interview with yours truly - I want to share a bit of a “reset” with what’s going on with Real World NP, where we started, where we’re going, and how you can be involved.
Are NP Careers Changing?
This is a blog post about the future of nurse practitioners who are feeling lost, uncertain, or unfulfilled in their career. This is a raw, honest and needed conversation with Amanda Guarniere, the founder of Resume RX.
Interview with a Pulmonologist
Go behind the scenes and explore the world of a specialized doctor through an exclusive interview with a pulmonologist! Get expert insights, advice, and guidance all from one source.
What To Do When You Have Bad News For Patients
This week, we have a video that covers so much of the ins and outs of delivering bad news to your patient. We will talk about all of the things to consider when you have these conversations with your patient.
Discussing Sexual Health With Your Patients - An Interview With A Sexual Health Educator
This is a blog post about how to discuss sexual health with your patients - an interview with a sexual health educator. The sexual health of patients is as important as their cardiovascular health, their mental health, or any other aspect of their overall health.
What I Wish I Asked At My Job Interview As A Nurse Practitioner
This blog post is about What I Wish I Asked At My Job Interview As A Nurse Practitioner. Do you know that moment in the job interview when they ask if you have any questions? Have you ever been totally stumped? Not fun.
Understanding New Grad Nurse Practitioner Job Offers
This is a blog post about Understanding New Grad Nurse Practitioner Job Offers. Finding the right fit in a prospective workplace doesn’t have to be a mystery, and you don’t have to go it alone, either.
Time Management Tips: An Interview With The World's Most Productive Nurse Practitioner
This is a blog post interview about time management tips with the world's most productive nurse practitioner. It talks about where to start with time management, the impact of the schedule on your time management and what you can do about it.
How to Give Feedback to Your Medical Assistant
This week we 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 like you want to crawl under a rock.
How to Have Chronic Care Conversations
In this episode, I cover what moves the needle in chronic conditions, normalizing what and why this is so hard, and a practical framework for navigating the management of these conditions.
Managing Chronic Care Visits for New Nurse Practitioners
Chronic 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.
Billing and Coding for Nurse Practitioners: 2021 Updates
Billing and coding is an important skill for nurse practitioners to understand. Learn about updates to E/M guidelines for medical billing and coding.
Diagnosing and Managing Shoulder Pain
Diagnosing and managing shoulder pain is a common task for nurse practitioners, but it can require depth of knowledge to manage effectively in primary care.
When You Want to Give Up as a Nurse Practitioner
Being a Nurse Practitioner is uniquely challenging. This week we share ways to cope with the stresses and prevent burnout during your first years of practice.
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