[Note from the editors: Following is a post by a former Real Life in Retail Health blogger about this summer's American Academy of Nurse Practitioners conference. She has left the retail health industry but still wished to share her thoughts on this conference with our blog readers.] I attended all 5 days of the AANP national conference in ...

I saw this great patient education video about lost tampons on a blog called Doc Gurley, Posts From an Insane Healthcare System. The blogger appears in the video giving humorous, yet expert, advice about how a tampon can get ''lost'' and what to do about it. Take a look, and then show it to your patients.Self-produced videos aren't difficult to ...

I have only anecdotal evidence, but it seems that there are a lot of new NP practices opening out there. In the past few weeks, I've received four Practice Snapshot surveys from NPs who've been in business just since the end of 2007 — two of whom I convinced to help me launch a private practice blog on this site, so stay tuned. I've also already ...