When I graduated from nursing school, I thought I was all that.  I was so smart and sassy, on top of the world.  So when I got compliments from my patients like “you are so smart you should be a doctor”, I saw that comment as a validation of myself.  Though now that I have […]

Full Practice Authority Is Not Mentoring There seems to be some general misconception about full practice authority and mentoring.  I have come across this confusion with both my physician colleagues as well as nurse practitioner students, so I feel compelled to write about it. As the director of the acute care nurse practitioner program, I

Why You Are Not A Midlevel The term midlevel never sat well with me. I used to tolerate it, but now it just pisses me off every time I see the word.  Why? Because it is so limiting and it devalues us as a profession. No matter how hard you work or how much you achieve,

Know It All Nurses Nurses who know it all. Have you ever come across that nursing student or new NP who just seems to know it all? They always have a good answer, they can pull research out of the air, they come up with pertinent information. Somehow, some new nurses just seem to have

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have no doubt been polarized willingly or not in this new era of politics. You are either a dumb Trump voter or a crazy Hillary freak. There is no middle ground right now. And there is no room for discussion of anything meaningful.  As long as

I recently wrapped up a launch of my NursePreneur Business Academy through a webinar I did and quite a bit of positive response. I recently wrapped up a launch of my NursePreneur Business Academy through a webinar I did and quite a bit of positive response. But not everyone was happy. I got an email from