NP Practice Made Simple

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...

Interdisciplinary 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...

There’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...

So 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...

One of the first things I encountered as a new nurse practitioner seeing patients on my own was the decision-making process of when to bring a patient back to the clinic again at the end of the...

I’ve made a few videos about contraceptive counseling, specifically IUD, Nexplanon and oral contraceptives, but this week I want to focus on the approach to the contraceptive counseling...

Patients 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...

Acute diarrhea is SUCH a common chief complaint in primary care. In this week’s video I’m covering acute diarrhea diagnosis for new nurse practitioners in primary care. 

Including:...

SO many patients are dealing with post covid symptoms lately. Fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain… it’s frustrating for patients and providers alike.

In this video...

A lot has changed with coronavirus diagnosis, testing and treatment since I first recorded a video in March of 2020.

Many patients are still coming in with symptoms and need testing and education,...