In-Demand Nurse Practitioner Specialties for 2022

With the healthcare industry booming, nurse practitioners (NPs) are in an excellent position to not only further their careers but fine-tune them to meet their own talents, interests, skills, and schedules. Six of the most popular specialties for NPs to pursue reflect the changing tide of the healthcare industry, which is focused on consumer-like experiences,…

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Celebrating Nurse Practitioner Week: Nov. 7-13

Every day, nurse practitioners (NPs) work hard to diagnose, treat, and cure thousands of patients throughout the world. In the second week of November, Nurse Practitioner Week honors the contributions that nurse practitioners bring to the medical field. Many NPs are still restricted from practicing to their full ability, so Nurse Practitioner Week serves as…

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Charting by Exception: Errors by Omission or The Efficient New Norm?

Charting by exception (CBE) is a shorthand method of documenting patient systems, using standard practices and patient norms to avoid charting redundancy and saving healthcare providers time and money. Using the Charting by Exception method, healthcare providers are required to chart only deviations from expected patient norms. The CBE systems can be different for every provider…

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Are You a Culturally Competent Nurse?

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman…” This quote is taken from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966 that urged legal action against hospitals that were out of compliance with the Civil Rights Act. He said, “We put the blame…

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