The Nurse Practitioner Mentor Blogย
Learn. Grow. Simplify Your NP Practice.
Weekly blog posts with practical tips, clinical pearls, and real-world guidance for new nurse practitioners in primary care.
Hi, I'm Allison Sowders, FNP-C, the family nurse practitioner behind Nurse Practitioner Mentor. If you are a new NP in primary care and you feel overwhelmed, second-guessing your decisions, and wishing someone would just show you how to think through a visit, this is for you.
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How to stay on time with 15-minute visits
Fifteen minutes per patient sounds impossible. It includes check-in, rooming, you actually seeing the patient, and everything else: testing, referrals, prescribing. The reason some NPs still finish on time is not that they work faster. It is that they run th...
You ordered the screening mammogram. The patient actually completed it, which is a win on its own. Now the result comes back abnormal, and you have to decide what happens next.
Here's a practical workflow you can use in primary care so you're not guessing.
Step 1: Order the right test
Start with the...
