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6 Mistakes That Could Ruin Your Nurse Practitioner Career
This is an exciting time to be a Nurse Practitioner. As the need for accessible health care continues to grow so do the roles and responsibilities of Nurse Practitioners. But beware, this growth and increasing focus on NPs puts them … Continue reading
What Every Nurse Practitioner Grad Must Have in Their Resume
Congratulations, NP! You’ve reached the finish line. Graduation day is just around the corner. You’ve worked so hard in school to get here. Now you’re ready to begin practicing as a nurse practitioner. Or are you? If not, don’t panic! … Continue reading
Top 9 Study Tips for Online Nurse Practitioner Students
Pursuing an online nurse practitioner degree is attractive for many nurses who need the flexibility of learning from home but make no mistake, online learning is just as rigorous as classroom learning. The time you save commuting and sitting in … Continue reading
7 Keys to Staying Healthy for Nurse Practitioners
How important is your health? As a nurse practitioner, you have dedicated your life to achieving health in your patients, but what about yourself? You’re on the front line of illness every day so protecting yourself should be priority one. … Continue reading
Top 25 Websites For Nurse Practitioners & Nurse Practitioner Students
Nurse practitioners are connected at the heart, or at least they should be. Why? It is this connection that provides the professional support and guidance needed to bring out the best in each of us personally and professionally in … Continue reading
10 Things All Nurse Practitioner Students Should Have
As a nurse practitioner student, you need quick access to quality, concise, information to make the best clinical decisions every day in your clinical rotations. Surprisingly, as a clinical NP instructor, when I arrive on the scene, I often find … Continue reading
Don’t Get Sued! 5 Legal Tips For Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners be on notice. When prescribing medications, you can be held liable for the actions (including murder) of your patients. Welcome to another court case gone bad. This week, in a landmark case involving the 2008 murder of Kristy … Continue reading
Doctors! Leave Us Nurse Practitioners Alone!
I call for a 60’s style protest. The kind that inspired a whole generation of young people to sing songs of protest, rise against “the establishment,” willing to risk everything for THE cause. The kind that inspired a whole generation … Continue reading
6 Scholarships for Nurse Practitioner Students
So you’ve made the decision to go back to nursing school and become a nurse practitioner. You’ve researched and found the right NP school and put your colleagues, friends and family on notice that you’re life is about change. Now, … Continue reading
5 Must Have iPhone & iPad Apps for Nurse Practitioner Students
You made the big decision to go back to school to become a Nurse Practitioner, but all that studying? You’re going to need help! Thanks to today’s technology, learning has become a whole lot easier. Using apps on smart phones … Continue reading