NP Practice Made Simple

If you're overwhelmed and intimidated by preoperative exams, you're not alone.

Even a healthy patient undergoing a low-risk surgery can be stressful, but knowing the guidelines and tools can...

How often do you open your EHR and find slightly elevated liver enzymes? (Daily, right?)

Should you worry about them?

What can cause liver enzymes to be elevated? Lab interpretation for new...

How often do you open your EHR to find lab results that are slightly abnormal, but you're not sure if you need to worry about them?

Lab interpretation for new nurse practitioners can be...

Another day hits 5 o'clock and you wonder: how did you end up bringing so many charts and lab results home? Where did the day go??

Whether you have 15, 30 or even 60 minutes for each patient...

Finding a high TSH on a screening test or when you've ordered it for a fatigue workup is SO common.

But when do you actually need to treat it? And how?

Using a case study, you'll learn:

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You've got the front desk staff asking you to see a late patient, the lab needs you to put in orders, the pharmacy says they don't have the script you sent 45 minutes ago, and you have 2 patients...

You've seen high WBC counts as a nurse, but what about leukocytosis that's only 13 or 15? And it's chronic? And what about peripheral smears? How do you know if it's urgent?

The real world of...

I don't think I'll forget that feeling.

Every single day, between scrambling to figure out what to do for the patient in front of me, interpreting the labs in my inbox, and returning patient...

How do you know if someone with a glucose of 500 needs to go to the ER or can be managed outpatient?

Continuing on the lab interpretation series, today's video is all about knowing what to do,...

I saw a meme recently that compared hyponatremia to folding a fitted sheet— you can watch a million videos on how to do it but you're probably going to crumple it up and hope you never have...