The Chronic Care Series Bundle for Nurse Practitioners

Make confident decisions in diabetes, hypertension, and CKD—without overwhelm.

Updated for 2026 • 8.75 ANCC contact hours (2.25 pharmacology) • Peer-reviewed by specialists

A comprehensive chronic care training series for nurse practitioners managing diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease in primary care.

Managing chronic conditions is a core part of primary care—but for many nurse practitioners, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease are also some of the most intimidating conditions to manage.

Guidelines are long, scattered, and difficult to apply in real time, especially when you’re caring for complex patients with limited visit time. You’re expected to remember algorithms, medication classes, staging criteria, titration pathways, and referral thresholds—all while trying to stay present with your patient and stay on schedule.

Most new NPs tell us they feel unsure about which medication to start or adjust, how to titrate safely, how often to monitor labs, how to assess whether a condition is meeting treatment goals, what to do when guidelines conflict, and how to manage inherited patients with years of disease outside management goals.

It’s complex, ongoing work—and without clear frameworks, it can leave clinicians feeling unsure about whether they’re making the best decisions over time.

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Why we created the Chronic Care Series

We created the Chronic Care Series Bundle to give you a clear, practical framework for managing diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease using step-by-step reasoning you can trust.

Each module breaks down real-world decision-making: what to start, what to adjust, what to monitor, and when to refer.

It’s the clarity you wish you had during those “what do I do next?” moments.

This isn’t an introductory overview of diabetes, hypertension, or CKD. It’s the complete primary care foundation — everything you need to manage these conditions confidently, safely, and independently. No 101 → 201 → 301 ladder. Just clear, evidence-based, guideline-aligned reasoning you can rely on every day in practice. Once you learn these frameworks, you’ll feel solid in your decision-making, whether the patient is brand new to you or has years of history.

With the Chronic Care Series, you’ll:

  • Choose medications confidently using guideline-based reasoning

  • Understand CKD staging, monitoring, and safe primary care management

  • Work up resistant hypertension and tricky diabetes cases

  • Use algorithms and workflows that streamline your visit time

  • Feel less overwhelmed and more grounded in your clinical decisions

  • Make independent, well-reasoned decisions you can stand behind in primary care

What’s inside the Series Bundle

This series includes four courses—each designed for real-world primary care.

Inside every course, you’ll get short, focused video lessons, clear reasoning frameworks, downloadable cheat sheets and slides, and a graded quiz to earn ANCC contact hours.

  • A practical, guideline-aligned approach to diabetes care in primary care, covering assessment and diagnosis, treatment standards, insulin and non-insulin medications, titration strategies, and management of prediabetes, hyperglycemia, and acute concerns like DKA and HHS.

  • Learn a clear, real-world framework for diagnosing and managing hypertension using current guidelines, including medication selection, medication titration, resistant and secondary hypertension workups, and how to navigate hypertensive urgency and emergency in the outpatient setting.

    Sign up for the Hypertension Management course only here.

  • Understand kidney function with confidence through clear frameworks for GFR, creatinine, BUN, urine dipstick, urinalysis/microscopy, and microalbumin/urine protein ratios. Essential for safe CKD assessment and monitoring.

  • Understand CKD from a primary care perspective with focused guidance on assessment, diagnosis, staging, monitoring, guideline-based management, and how CKD intersects with diabetes, hypertension, AKI, and subacute kidney concerns.

The Renal Lab Interpretation Essentials course is included because you cannot safely manage CKD without a solid understanding of renal labs.

If you also need support with broader lab interpretation, the Lab Interpretation Series for nurse practitioners pairs seamlessly with this bundle—especially for renal labs and metabolic trends you’ll use in chronic disease management.

If you’ve already purchased the Lab Interpretation Series, you can choose the Chronic Care Series – Lab Interpretation Companion, which excludes the Renal Labs course, so you don’t pay for the same content twice.

What makes this different from other chronic care resources

Most chronic disease resources for nurse practitioners are:

  • Written for residents or endocrinology fellows—not NPs

  • Too dense, too academic, or too long to apply in a 15-minute visit

  • Scattered across textbooks, guidelines, and online articles

  • Focused on theory instead of actionable clinical reasoning

  • Missing the outpatient-specific nuance NPs actually need

  • Overwhelming rather than practical

The Chronic Care Series is different because it:

  • Teaches real-world reasoning, not just guideline summaries

  • Gives you clear, primary-care-focused algorithms

  • Shows you exactly what to do next—step by step

  • Includes medication pathways, monitoring intervals, and red flags

  • Helps you understand why you’re choosing a treatment, not just what

  • Is structured to reduce overwhelm, not add to it

  • Is peer-reviewed by specialists and aligned with ANCC Educational Design standards

Is This For Me?

Perfect for:

  • New NPs developing chronic disease management skills

  • Providers transitioning into primary care

  • NPs wanting to feel more confident with medication choices

  • Experienced clinicians refreshing their reasoning and workflow

Who this is NOT for:

  • Pediatric or OB providers

  • Emergency, inpatient, or urgent care clinicians

  • Providers needing deep specialty-level endocrine or renal content

  • Clinicians looking for pathophysiology lectures rather than practical frameworks

This series is built specifically for adult outpatient primary care.

Before you enroll: Choose the right bundle

We offer two versions of the Chronic Care Series Bundle

Option 1

Chronic Care Series Bundle

✔ Includes renal labs
✔ Best for most learners
✔ Standalone option

Option 2

Chronic Care Series Bundle - Lab Interpretation Bundle Companion

✔ Excludes renal labs
✔ Only if you are confident in renal labs
✔ Designed to pair with Lab Series

Important note about renal labs

Renal lab interpretation is a core skill for safely managing chronic kidney disease. Inside the Chronic Care Series, diabetes, hypertension, and CKD are taught with the assumption that you already understand how to order and interpret renal labs.

If you’re not yet confident with renal labs, we strongly recommend choosing the Standard Bundle, or pairing the Companion Bundle with the Lab Interpretation Series. This will make the material easier to follow and help you feel more grounded in your clinical decisions.

Enroll in The Chronic Care Series Bundle

The Chronic Care Series Bundle is a bundle of four focused courses. Each course can be purchased individually, but has been bundled to create the most comprehensive learning experience.

Option 1: The Chronic Care Series Bundle

Includes:

  1. Diabetes Management in Primary Care - $347

  2. Hypertension Management in Primary Care - $197

  3. Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Primary Care - $197

  4. Renal Lab Interpretation Essentials for Primary Care - $197

    $938 value purchased separately - save 30% as a bundle

$650

One-time Payment

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Option 2: The Chronic Care Series Bundle

Includes:

  1. Diabetes Management in Primary Care - $347

  2. Hypertension Management in Primary Care - $197

  3. Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Primary Care - $197

    $1,041 value purchased separately - save 25% as a bundle

$550

One-time Payment

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  • It’s evidence-based, ANCC-aligned, peer-reviewed by specialists, and teaches step-by-step reasoning for diabetes, hypertension, and CKD that you can apply immediately in primary care.


  • Each course provides an opportunity to receive ANCC contact hours:

    • Diabetes Management in Primary Care: 3.25 ANCC contact hour(s) (which includes 1.5 hour(s) of pharmacology)

    • Hypertension Management in Primary Care: 2.0 ANCC contact hour(s) (which includes 0.75 hour(s) of pharmacology)

    • Renal Lab Interpretation Essentials for Primary Care: 2.0 ANCC contact hour(s)

    • Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Primary Care: 1.5 ANCC contact hour(s)*

  • Access expires after 1 year with the option to extend access for a nomial fee at the end of the year term. Any downloadable items are yours to keep.

  • You don’t have to purchase both bundles, but many primary care NPs find that lab interpretation and chronic disease management go hand-in-hand.

    If you choose both, select the Chronic Care Series — Lab Interpretation Companion so you don’t pay for the renal labs course twice.

  • Yes—every module includes algorithms, monitoring intervals, medication pathways, and “what to do next” reasoning specific to primary care.

Frequently asked questions

  • The Companion version exists for learners who are also purchasing the Lab Interpretation Series, which already includes the Renal Laboratory Interpretation module. This ensures you’re not paying for duplicate content.

  • Yes. If you already have the lab course, you can purchase the Chronic Care Bundle - Lab Interpretation Companion Version

    If you want deeper training beyond renal labs—CBCs, CMPs, thyroid, lipids, and more—the Lab Interpretation Series for nurse practitioners is a perfect complement to the Chronic Care Series.

  • Yes. ANCC contact hours count for both credentialing bodies.

  • Absolutely. It was built especially for new and early-career NPs.

  • Yes. Content has been updated, reorganized, expanded, and peer-reviewed with current evidence and guidelines.

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Why chronic disease management training matters for nurse practitioners: Primary care nurse practitioners manage diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease every day, yet most training programs don’t offer clear, structured reasoning frameworks for outpatient chronic care. Many clinicians search for chronic care courses for nurse practitioners that explain medication choices, staging, monitoring, and safe follow-up in a practical, real-world format. The Chronic Care Series provides an evidence-based, ANCC-aligned, peer-reviewed approach designed specifically for nurse practitioners in primary care.