ADVANCE for NPs & PAs staff is bracing for Hurricane Sandy near Philadelphia, Pa. today, and we wish the best to all those along the East coast who are suffering from the storm's damage. Across the country, NPs and PAs are still heating up our communities with the latest in healthcare. On our article ...

If you're not chatting with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, ''like'', ''follow'' and ''connect'' with us and start sharing in the conversations! If you are, keep following and spread the word! This week, our social media sites exploded with great comments from our readers. Here are some of the highlights, copied verbatim and without ...

If you're not chatting with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, ''like'', ''follow'' and ''connect'' with us and start sharing in the conversations! If you are, keep following and spread the word! This week, our social media sites exploded with great comments from our readers. Here are some of the highlights, copied verbatim and without ...

In this profession it is an honor and privilege to be a part of someone's care. Being a nurse for so many years, I never dreamed that I would have the opportunities I have been afforded by being a practitioner. While this is not earth shattering, I just really appreciate performing the basic office procedures that I have been studying ...

A recent op-ed in The Washington Post calls for prevention of an unmanageable influx of newly insured patients to emergency departments. In Keeping Routine Medical Care Out of Hospital Emergency Rooms, Jennifer Brokaw, an emergency department physician, makes several very sensible suggestions for solutions, two of which point directly toward nurse ...

I had the opportunity to attend the Retail Clinician Education Conference in Orlando, Fla. this week August 3rd-5th. I did not attend the conference last year and was very excited to attend this year.   The presentations at the conference covered a broad range of topics in clinical education including dermatology, asthma, OTC cough and ...

Staying up to date on clinical issues when in retail health can be challenging. Even though our scope of service is limited in this setting, we must remain knowledgeable about conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, anxiety, women’s health, normal growth and development, current trends in treatment, just to name a few. We must be up to date on ...

Hello again: last time I raised the issue of NPs getting certified as Retail Health Specialist. During that blog I raised question of NP education and what if any role should retail health play in today’s education of tomorrow’s NPs? As an instructor in a university-based NP program, I see the challenges we have in establishing, maintaining and ...

This month I am going to reach out on a limb a bit and discuss retail health clinicians' ability or desire to become specialized in “Retail Health” sometime in the future. First of all, most of the NPs currently working in retail health and all NPs in my organization are “board certified,” mostly in family practice and mostly by ANCC. Do we dare ...

So, I'm back from the first ever retail clinician conference. I hope it isn't the last since it was wonderful. Over 300 people were there when only 120 or so were expected. Hi, to Lisa and Laura and their friend. I wrote your names down but lost the paper. I told y'all your name would be here, so blog back. I'm sure your visit to the spa was as ...