The Observation phase of your assessment begins the minute you open the door to the exam room. This episode I will give you tips on what you can assess during the interview portion of visit and how you can use this portion of the assessment to guide you in patient evaluation.
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■ The Patient - Provider Relationship
■ How to establish that connection
■ And how that connection benefits both you and patient.
I know that we are living in a modern techie world with EMRs, electronic devices and apps to track it all, but what about the human experience? The provider patient connection? What about those subtleties that you pick up on in human interaction, communication and observation that are not included in all of these tracking devices? In this podcast we will discuss therapeutic connections with your patients. How to establish that therapeutic connection. How that will benefit you as the practitioner. And how that will benefit the patient.
Read MoreChronic Fatigue and Weight Gain: When Thyroid Gets the Blame
■ Thyroid Assessment
■ The Nutrition Connection to Thyroid Function
This episode I want to continue down our path of nutritional influence on health. We have started to get into the nutritional influences and deficits of our current patient population in previous episodes. As we continue, I want to focus in on a topic that you may not commonly connect to dietary influences. The thyroid. I have some insights into the connection between food intake and thyroid function that may surprise you! So listen in!
Read MoreIt is an extremely daunting task to care for today’s patient. We we live in a society that is getting their information from social media and mass marketing. We are fighting every step of the way to get people to control their co-morbidities. People are going to the Internet to find health tips. We go through a different fad every few years. The people who are giving out information, most often are looking for their own monetary gain or are not educated in managing a person with complicated health conditions. This can be dangerous! Re-educating our patient population, as well as ourselves is going to be the new way of life.
Read MoreToday we are talking about is our current patient population. The patient that you see in your office today, no matter what they seem at face value are very complex and have multiple underlying conditions lurking. This is a product of the world in which we live. Today’s society is one of increased stress, Processed foods, on the go living, lack of exercise and increased screen time. and that is just the tip of the iceberg for contributing factors to the ever-changing and declining health of our US population.
When you put all of these things together, it leads to the ever rising trend of obesity, which leads to hypertension, pre-diabetes, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, autoimmune disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, depression and so much more.
○ This episode, I will ll be sharing my thoughts on the current patient population
■ The complexity of those patients
■ Contributing factors to that complexity
■ The beginnings of managing those complexities
■ ...and so much more!
Read More○ This episode, I will ll be sharing my thoughts on the current patient population
■ The complexity of those patients
■ Contributing factors to that complexity
■ The beginnings of managing those complexities
■ ...and so much more!
Read MoreWe care, we advocate and we educate! Add the Advanced Education at a Master’s Level or above to a registered nurse that has the gained the skills and experience in their profession of working directly with and caring for patients and you have a Nurse Practitioner. That my friends is powerful and is shaping the healthcare system now and the future of healthcare.
Read MoreThis is the inaugural episode of health interventions for your practice. This episode will allow you to “meet” your host Marcia Kesner, NP. Marcia will share a little bit about her background and path to starting this podcast for other nurse practitioners who want to grow and develop their skills and build camaraderie within their profession. Marcia has a particular interest in health and wellness, weight management and functional medicine. Over the course of this podcast and future podcasts, Marcia will share many of the tips and tricks she has learned along the way to help her open two successful practices and develop online courses to take other Nurse Practitioners to the next level in their practice. Listen in to see how it all got started along with a little bit of what’s to come.
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