Sure, there are many great courses, conferences, symposiums, and training events happening across the US. Students more routinely seek local events instead of ones that require a considerable distance for travel, especially in the age of COVID-19. So, what is the smartest way as a business owner to help promote other courses, even those that […]
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How to Promote Education Content That Isn’t Yours
Who has the best suturing workshop?
This is one of those questions that I hear from people that are not sure whether or not they want to spend the money on a workshop and feel that the content available to the public on social media and through free open access medical education (aka, FOAMED) routinely ask. The overwhelming amount of information […]
What online continuing education courses are best for new nurse practitioners?
Nurse practitioner continuing education is required for every licensed nurse practitioner. As a continuing education company, Skills On Point offers a broad assortment of courses covering many areas of education. We frequently get asked by our audience what courses are best for new graduate nurse practitioners and experienced nurse practitioners and the answer is the […]
Learn How to Apply Splints Like an Orthopedic Provider
As a student nurse practitioner, I had only ever applied and removed one fiberglass cast during a day of clinicals in orthopedics. The physician assistant I was shadowing allowed me to put a short arm cast on him, then had me cut it off with a cast saw with the oversight of the cast technician. […]
6 Ways to Improve Your Quality of Life as a Provider
I have heard many more nurse practitioners talking about quality of life in recent months and years compared to when I started working as an NP a decade ago. Maybe that’s because there just are more NPs now, or maybe it’s another reason, like our collective experience being turned upside down by a pandemic! Either […]
Five Ways to Prepare Yourself For Your New Professional Adventure
So, you want to open your own NP-led clinic? And you’re not sure how to start? Here are the top five ways to prepare yourself for your new professional adventure. 1. Check your state’s laws Check out your state’s nurse practice act and laws regarding nurse practitioner practice. In the state of Illinois, we have […]
How do you prepare to teach skills to NP students?
I recently had the honor and opportunity to teach 25 or so nurse practitioner students in their final semester of graduate school in a 4-hour lecture and hands-on skills workshop. This was both a trip down memory lane (was I really in their seats just a short 10 years ago?) and also a call to […]
What is the best way to close a punch biopsy?
Some of the most commonly sought-after skills in our suturing and office procedures workshops is how to perform shave and punch biopsies. We routinely have a large audience following for these derm procedures sessions because knowing how to safely and quickly perform these biopsies certainly can make or break your day and not knowing which […]
How to Produce and Sell Online Continuing Education Content
As the owner of a company providing healthcare continuing education material, I am asked many times how to replicate what we do by others. The steps we undertake as an accredited provider of continuing education courses is far more in-depth than you may see on the surface. Here’s a simple walk through of what it […]
How to Keep an Incision from Falling Apart
When it comes to lacerations and incisions, nurse practitioners and physician assistants frequently will tell you the enemy of good wound closure is tension. I don’t mean the wound has anxiety and unresolved daddy issues. I mean quite literally the wound is under too much oppositional force to allow the tissues to approximate for their […]
7 Common Tests Nurse Practitioners Order Prior to Heart Surgery
Cardiac surgery patients will undergo some level of preparatory testing before their surgery, even if it is an emergency. One of my jobs as a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner is to make sure every stone is turned before proceeding to surgery for the best possible outcome. Here are some of the most common things that […]
3 Steps to Successfully Onboard Cardiothoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioners
For a new grad nurse practitioner seeking employment in a cardiothoracic surgery practice, the learning curve is steep and quite daunting. Not only are you likely to be working with a highly complex patient profile, but also a high level of expectation on your abilities as a diagnostician and proceduralist. Here are three easy steps […]
What is it Like to Work in Cardiothoracic Surgery?
What is it like to work in heart surgery? As a nurse practitioner and first assistant working in cardiothoracic surgery, I have been asked this question countless times by nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are interested in taking the plunge to CV surgery. First let me say that I absolutely love cardiac and thoracic […]
How to Consult Cardiology
If you work in general adult or family, internal, or hospital medicine, you are likely quite familiar with the management of cardiac patients. With problems like hypertension and dyslipidemia rampant in patients in the United States, and readily available guidelines through the American College of Cardiology and JNC 8, management of these conditions is likely […]
Dealing with Nursing Burnout
Dealing with Burnout in Healthcare Nursing burnout in healthcare is no big deal, right? I mean, of course, we all get tired of our jobs and need to change scenery occasionally, but that’s healthy, isn’t it? Maybe, and maybe not. If there is one lesson from being given a front row seat to a healthcare […]
8 Ways for Nurse Practitioners to Reinvent Themselves
Ready to do something new in 2021? Here’s a list of some very actionable and fun ways you can change your trajectory for your career. Some of these ideas cost money, some make money. But at the end of next year, wouldn’t it be awesome to quit complaining and do something amazing in 2021 to […]