LGBTQIA+ cultural competency helps not only our patients to feel safer, seen, and supported, but it also improves health outcomes. Many providers aren’t sure what that competency looks like,...

Have you found yourself needing to give feedback to your MA or support staff – with no idea where to start? You’re not alone. As an NP, your role is unique; you’re not the boss,...

Being new at anything — whether it's a new hobby, a new sport, a new form of exercise, a NEW JOB! — is hard. After the initial excitement about your fresh endeavor, you've got to start...

I recently got the question from a new nurse practitioner, “what do you do when you want to give up as a nurse practitioner?”

I’ve definitely been there before myself, and with...

When we’re nurse practitioner students, we’re so focused on the clinical aspects of our jobs that most of the time when we graduate, we’ve caught by surprise.

There’s an...

In this week’s video, I’m interviewing Diana from Catalyst for Self Care. She’s been a nurse practitioner for 10 years, and after burning out herself, she now helps nurses and...

When I work with new grad nurse practitioners one on one, we usually talk about the cases keeping them up at night, the lab results they’re struggling with, but there’s a sneaky...

Trauma-informed care sounds like a hard-to-learn, difficult and stressful topic (also reclaimed as “healing-centered care” to de-center trauma in some places, which feels a lot...

This has been on my heart this week - between working 1 on 1 with mentees and seeing the landscape online of new grad nurse practitioners, I see this ALL the time.

Feeling like you're the only...

The transition from RN to NP is TOUGH.

It's exhausting, stressful, but oh so worth it.

We need to be careful, though, because too much stress and not enough strategic prevention can lead to...