NP Practice Made Simple

You're on call and you get paged about a critical INR...

You get a new patient from the ED who just started on coumadin for a DVT...

You're spending way too much time leafing through...

Walking into an exam room and seeing the hunched over patient with labored breathing, audible wheezing, and oxygen tank can make you want to slowly walk out backwards as a new nurse practitioner...

It's 2 p.m., the medical assistant comes to your office and lets you know your next patient is ready, and they're here because they "need antibiotics" ...

... But do they? Or don't they?

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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...