Best of 2012: Nurse Practitioner Round-Up
A nurse practitioner is an advanced practice registered Nurse (APRN) who has completed graduate-level education. They can serve as a patient’s primary health care provider or work under a doctor, treating patients of all ages depending on their specialty. Besides providing healthcare services, nurse practitioners can opt to take a different path. Some start their own company, open their own practice, write a book, author a website, or go on a speaking tour.
Online Nurse Practitioner Programs.com has produced an inaugural round-up of notable professionals in the advanced practice nursing field. The list, entitled, 100 Best of 2012: Nurse Practitioner Round-Up, looks at nurse practitioners in five categories: nurse entrepreneurs, private practice owners, bloggers, nursing student resources, and professional nursing resources. You can easily navigate this list by clicking on the section you wish to visit at the top of the page. Please note, the round-up is not presented in order of rank.
Private Practices
There are many nurse practitioners who go into business for themselves and start their own private practice. Private practices provide patients a more individualized consultation and solution, while also developing a more personal relationship.Below you will find various private practices that are owned and operated by nurse practitioners.
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Mobile Health Appraisal Services
Mobile Health Appraisal Services has been providing a variety of physical examinations and medical tests for fire departments, emergency responders, industries, and insurance companies in Central New York since 1991.
- Specialty: Mobile Healthcare
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Metro Medical Direct
Founder of Metro Medical Direct, Raymond Zakhari’s company takes the hassle out of going to the doctor, by bringing the doctor’s office to you.
- Specialty: Home healthcare visits
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Integrative Healthcare
Integrative Healthcare is a clinic that offers traditional and primary medical services, but also provide other options and alternatives when it comes to health and healing.
- Specialty: Primary Care, offering alternatives
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Evergreen Clinic
Evergreen Clinic offers primary and urgent medical care for individuals and families.
- Specialty: Family Nurse Practitioners
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Shirley Medical Family Healthcare
Shirley Medical Family Healthcare is a not-for-profit that provides health and wellness resources for family medical care.
- Specialty: Private Health Care
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Seasons
Seasons offer patients a more natural and holistic approach to healthcare along with cutting edge advancements in traditional medicine.
- Specialty: Holistic health and wellness
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Aspen Family Medical Group of Modesto Inc.
Aspen Family Medical Group is a full service family practice that serves patients of all ages.
- Specialty: Family Practice
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Sage Medical Group
Sage Medical Group is an independent medical group that provides cost-effective medical care in a personalized environment.
- Specialty: Internal Medicine
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Bay Area Quick Care
Bay Area Quick Care treat patients ages three and above who have minor illnesses and injuries.
- Specialty: Urgent Care
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A Woman’s Place
A Woman’s Place specializes in the healthcare needs for women of all ages.
- Specialty: Women Health Care
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JOVE Medical Integrative Medicine
JOVE Medical provides integrative medicine while promoting a holistic approach to health and wellness.
- Specialty: Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
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Laconia Women’s Health Center
Laconia Women’s Health Center provides individual attention and primary health care for women.
- Specialty: Women’s Health
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Grace Grymes Chapman, ARNP
Grace Grymes Chapman offers primary health care to families of all ages.
- Specialty: Family Health Care
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The People’s Clinic
The People’s Clinic can assess, diagnose, treat and prescribe medicine for many common illnesses.
- Specialty: Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, Health Education, Counseling
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New Beginnings Healthcare for Women
New Beginnings Healthcare for Women provides healthcare services for women with an emphasis on caring for the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
- Specialty: Women’s Healthcare
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Newsome Healthcare
Newsome Healthcare is a family medical clinic that focuses on health promotion.
- Specialty: Family Medicine
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Travel Health of NH
Travel Health of NH provides healthcare services for individuals and groups who travel often and are in need of vaccinations and primary care.
- Specialty: Health and Wellness for Travelers
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Yanceyville Primary Care
Yanceyville Primary Care provides primary care services for people of all ages also including pediatrics and Gyn care.
- Specialty: Primary Care
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Lynn McClellan Behavioral Health Services
Lynn McClellan Behavioral Health Services provides child, adolescent and adult behavioral health and psychiatric services.
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
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Healthy Bladder Solutions
Healthy Bladder Solutions provides a holistic approach to bladder health.
- Specialty: Bladder Health
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Gericalls
Gericalls provides in home medical care to the elderly or any adult over the age of 35.
- Specialty: Geriatrics
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Hands On Medicine
Hands On Medicine provides services in health and wellness through nurturing the mind, body, and spirit within each patient.
- Specialty: Holistic Family Healthcare
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Nurses & Company, Inc
Nurses & Company provide services in private, home health, and hospice.
- Specialty: Home Health Care
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Anderson Family Healthcare
Anderson Family Healthcare provides services in primary and acute healthcare for people of all ages.
- Specialty: Family Healthcare
Blogs Authored by Nurse Practitioners and Nurses
The Internet provides so many helpful resources for nurse practitioners to explore. Many nurse practitioners turn to creating and maintaining their own blogs in order to vent, educate, discuss, review, and swap ideas with other fellow nurses or individuals in the healthcare field. Below you will find numerous blogs authored by nurses and nurse practitioners.
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CorrectionalNurse.net
CorrectionalNurse.net is a blog that shares information on correctional nursing which focuses on the care for incarcerated individuals in jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities.
- Featured Post: Dealing With Inmate Patients
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The NP Mom
The NP Mom provides information and health care tools for fellow nurse practitioners.
- Featured Post: Bipolar Disorder – It’s More Than Just Depression
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The Nursing Show
The Nursing Show broadcasts a radio show, podcast, news while also sharing comments and tips for RNs, LPNs, and nursing students.
- Featured Post: Online NP Degree Program Aims to Address Primary Care Needs
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My Strong Medicine
My Strong Medicine is a blog about the adventures of a male nurse navigating through life, staying fit, and surviving the journey.
- Featured Post: What exactly is Obamacare and what did it change?
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Different Types of Nursing
Different Types of Nursing is a blog that explores alternative nursing career opportunities and you’ll also find nursing career tips and information.
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My Ramblings…From the Trauma bay
My Ramblings…From the Trauma bay share random humor, thoughts, and topics for fellow nurses.
- Featured Post: Nursing is an Art
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Just Call Me Nurse
Just Call Me Nurse is a blog that shares pre and post nursing school tips and advice.
- Featured Post: First Week On The Job
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Kate Loving Shenk
Kate Loving Shenk is a blog for healers and nurse healers to help access your inner healing power.
- Featured Post: The Art and Science of Medicine
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Learning Disability Nurse
Learning Disability Nurse provides career information for learning disability nursing.
- Featured Post: Future of Learning Disability Nursing Networking – My View
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Nursing Ideas
Nursing Ideas helps spreads ideas among nurses and nursing students.
- Featured Post: Do nurses follow best practices and evidence?
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See Jane Nurse
See Jane Nurse offers random insight into the life of a nurse.
- Featured Post: Control
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The Dog Ate My Care Plan…
The Dog Ate My Care Plan…chronicles the experiences and journey of a student in nursing school.
- Featured Post: D-Day: Operation NCLEX-RN
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Infusion Nurse Blog
Infusion Nurse Blog shares and discusses ideas related to infusion nursing, vascular access, and infusion therapies.
- Featured Post: Got Pain? There’s IV Acetaminophen for that…
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Abilenerob
Abilenerob is a blog created by an RN that provides quirky and humorous posts about patient care.
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At Your Cervix
At Your Cervix is a blog about the musings, rantings, and opinions of a labor and delivery nurse on her path to be a nurse-midwife.
- Featured Post: Birth Stories
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Pergology
Pergology is a blog created by Coach Perg, who is a nurse coach trying to guide and inspire nurses to have a more fulfilled career.
- Featured Post: Nurses Who Believe Will Lead!
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Crass-Pollination
Crass-Pollination is an ER blog that showcases the less glamorous side of the ER with a witty spin.
- Featured Post: The less glamorous side of the ER
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Barb’s Daily Dose
Barb’s Daily Dose is a blog created by Nurse Barb to provide advice to fellow nurses.
- Featured Post: Number of Nurse Practitioners to Nearly Double by 2025
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CodeBlog
CodeBlog share the experiences and stories of one nurse and others in the healthcare system.
- Featured Post: True Hospice Story
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ImpactedNurse.com
ImpactedNurse.com offers and shares an eclectic mix of a RN’s reflections, tutorials, and articles.
- Featured Post: Doctoring the data. Nursing the numbers.
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Nurse Story
Nurse Story is a blog about nursing, NP’s, and health care.
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Digital Doorway
Digital Doorway is a blog created by NurseKeith to share his reflections on nursing, coaching, and healthcare.
- Featured Post: Doctors and Nurses: We All Can Win
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JParadisi RN’s Blog
JParadisi RN’s blog offers posts on nursing, science and art.
- Featured Post: A Social License III: Nursing Synchronicity
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Nursing Law & Order
Nursing Law & Order provides commentary on legal issues facing nurses.
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AdvanceWeb.com
AdvanceWeb.com is a blog that shares and explores NP’s experiences and stories as they start their nurse practitioner career.
- Featured Post: Adjusting to a New Collaborative Physician
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Off the Charts
Off the Charts is the blog of the American Journal of Nursing, which provides and highlights what’s most interesting, important, and troubling in nursing and health care.
- Featured Post: Road Trip: Rehab for the ICU Nurse
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Nurse Pickle
Nurse Pickle is a blog that provides the experiences and stories of one nurse’s journey through the ups and downs of being a wife and nurse.
- Featured Post: Jockey Scrub Review
Student Resources
Beyond books and a lecture hall, there are organizations and groups that are dedicated to helping nursing students while they pursue their degree. It isn’t easy to be a nursing student, and seeking out help can definitely ease the stress. Listed below are several resources that provide guidance and direction for nursing students.
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Health Is Social
Health Is Social is a site that infuses social media and topics on leadership into healthcare.
- Featured Article: Social Media For Medical Students, Residents, and Faculty
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Fitzgerald Health Education Associates
Fitzgerald Health Education Associates provides instructive teaching with case examples and interactive assessment analysis to help students review new information, focusing on evidence-based practice.
- Featured Article: Information of Interest to NPs
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Advanced Practice Education Associates
Advanced Practice Education Associates provides assistance and guidance for nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students in advancing professionally and educationally through review courses, continuing education programs, books, and other educational offerings.
- Featured Article: Ask Amelie
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Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation
Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation is an educational organization that is committed to improving health status and quality of care through nurse practitioner advances in education, research, health policy, service, and philanthropy.
- Featured Article: NP Facts & Figures
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The Makings Of A Nurse
The Makings Of A Nurse is a blog that serves as an outlet for sharing a nursing student’s experiences, hearing about other fellow students, and having a conversation about contemporary nursing.
- Featured Article: A Day In the Life of an ER Nurse Practitioner
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Nurse 411
Nurse 411 is a site that offers various resources for nursing students and practicing nurse practitioners.
- Featured Article: Review Sheets
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Frazzledrazzlern
Frazzledrazzlern is a blog that shares various and random posts from a nursing student.
- Featured Article: Scrubs and Shoes
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NP Central
NP Central is a non-profit organization and site developed by nurse practitioners to provide resources and help meet the needs of practicing nurse practitioners.
- Featured Article: Grow Your Organization
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RN: Real Newbie (a Nurse’s blog)
RN: Real Newbie is a blog from the perspective of a recent nursing school graduate and the experiences of being a “Real Nurse.”
- Featured Article: 10 Things Nursing Has Taught Me
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Advanced Practice Education Services
Advanced Practice Education Services is a continuing education company owned and operated by a nurse practitioner that provides interactive and nationally approved continuing education courses to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
- Featured Article: Sensor & Skin Models
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Rn.com
Rn.com is site that offers nurses with resources in professional education and information to better their professional careers.
- Featured Article: Nursing Education
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Diversitynursing.com
Diversitynursing.com is a site and job resource to help nurses explore other career opportunities in the healthcare field.
- Featured Article: Students
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NSNA
NSNA is an educational organization dedicated to encouraging the professional development of nursing students.
- Featured Article: What’s New
Professional Resources
Even though nurse practitioners are practicing professionals in healthcare, they can still continue to educate themselves and learn more about their profession. There are various organizations and groups available to help nurse practitioners in the field. Listed below are resources that nurse practitioners professionals will find helpful.
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Triumphs and Tribulations of a New Nurse Practitioner
Follow the journey of a non-traditional student from registered nurse to nurse practitioner!
- Featured Article: ICD-10 and why healthcare is expensive
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SpringBoard
SpringBoard, the official blog of Springer Publishing Company, is the home of essays, news items, and dispatches from leading academics, scholars, and practitioners in the nursing, psychology, gerontology, social work, counseling, public health, rehabilitation and medical education fields.
- Featured Article: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) 2012 Conference
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The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Marilyn W. Edmunds, President of Nurse Practitioner Connections and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, is the editor of The Journal of Nurse Practitioners.
- Featured Article: JNP: The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
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Nursing Staff Development: Behind the Firewall
Blog founder Teresa Heithaus wanted to create a corner of the Internet where nursing, staff development and nursing education experiences could be shared.
- Featured Article: Online Binders in the Hospital Setting
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Barbara C. Phillips
A website and service that exists to provide education, resources, and support to both the clinician entrepreneur and the aspiring entrepreneur in their business development.
- Featured Article: NP Promotion
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Confident Voices
Beth Boynton is the author of “Confident Voices” the book, newsletter and blog. She’s a nurse consultant, national speaker, professional coach, teacher and per diem RN on an Alzheimer’s Care unit.
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RehabRN
Blogging since 2007, Rehab RN is a great resource for professional registered nurses interested in rehabilitation.
- Featured Article: Attention all Nursing Students
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Heartstrong LLC
HeartStrong, LLC is a multi-media health education, communications, and consulting firm dedicated to promoting awareness and education of health issues.
- Featured Article: Risk Factors
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Cummins & White LLP
Melanie Balestra is an attorney and nurse practitioner who advises about healthcare law.
- Featured Article: Melanie Belastra
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Infant Mental Health for the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Infant Mental Health for the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner a site designed to provide information about infant mental health with a focus on the first 12 months of life. The site assists PNPs in supporting infants and families during the first year.
- Featured Article: Babies and Sleep
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Carolyn Buppert
Carolyn Buppert is a health care attorney. Her legal clients include medical practices, institutions, non-profit organizations and individual clinicians throughout the United States.
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Care Plans
Careplans.com is the #1 online resource for nursing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Featured Article: What’s Wrong with Care Plans—and How to Get it Right
Nurse Entrepreneurs
Sometimes being a nurse practitioner isn’t enough for someone in nursing. There are many individuals who wish to pursue other opportunities and aspects of the healthcare industry. Below you will find various entrepreneurs in the field of nursing.
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Affinity House Calls
Owner, and acute care nurse practitioner, Lisa Tabor began Affinity House Calls to provide immobile patients access to quality healthcare.
- Specialty: Home healthcare visits
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ADVANCE For Nurses
Great Resource that covers everything Nursing
- Specialty:Advance For Nurses
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Hospice of Broward County
Your Non-Profit End of Life Care Providor
- Specialty:Hospice of Broward County
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Nebraska Nursing Consultants LLC
Nebraska Nursing Consultants is a registry of professional, registered nurses in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska and the Grand Island-Hastings-Kearney area.
- Specialty: Home healthcare visits
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Small Beginnings
Small Beginnings is a private corporation of healthcare professionals with a passion for the NICU. They develop products specifically for newborn and premature babies.
- Specialty: Latex-free, healthy new born products
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Carolyn Zaumeyer, MSN, ARNP
Carolyn Zaumeyer guides nurse practitioners who are contemplating starting a practice as well as those who have already made the commitment to independent practice.
- Specialty: Consulting
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Health & Continence Institute
Helen Carcio is the founder and director of The Health & Continence Institute of Western Massachusetts. She lectures extensively on a national level on women’s bladder health issues
- Specialty: Women’s bladder health
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Yoga Nurse
Annette Tersigni of The Yoga Nurse helps nurses to turn on their self-care and wealth care to strike gold in their nursing careers.
- Specialty: Retreats, speaking, training
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My Papp
MyPapp is a free Android App developed to educate women about the Pap test so that they can access information conveniently and privately.
- Specialty: Mobile medical technology, women’s health
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Wisdom and Wellness
Luann Lavin is a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Wisdom and Wellness is a portal to her practice as well as educational resources.
- Specialty: Pelvic wellness
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Passport Health
Passport Health is the largest provider of travel medical services in the United States with locations nationwide founded by Fran Lessans, RN, educator, and healthcare administrator.
- Specialty: Advice, Immunizations, Safety, Medicines, Insurance, Vaccination
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Snuggin Go
Designed by mother and neonatal nurse practitioner, Beth Rumack, Snuggin Go is for infants from 4 pounds and greater, up to one year of age, and helps babies sit and breath right.
- Specialty: Car seat safety
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Genesis Gold
Founder of Genesis Health Products Inc, clinical endocrine advisor to Genova Laboratory and Sansum Medical Clinic, past president of California Association of Nurse Practitioners, and published author, Deborah Maragopoulos operates a thriving integrative medical practice—Full Circle Family Health.
- Specialty: Integrative medicine
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Sleep Medicine Network
Run by medical director Dr. Joseph Zelk, DNP, Sleep Medicine Network sells the only custom, metal-free, fully adjustable, inexpensive alternative for the management of sleep disordered breathing.
- Specialty: Sleep disorders
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Eileen T. O’Grady
Dr. Eileen T. O’Grady is a certified adult nurse practitioner who has practiced in primary care for over two decades. As a wellness coach, she helps people to create an ideal vision for their health.
- Specialty: Wellness
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TelePresenceCoaching
With more than two decades of experience as a nurse practitioner, Dr. Deborah Kiley helps people to identify strategies that work for them to improve their health.
- Specialty: Wellness
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Johnetta Miner
Johnetta Miner, MPH, MSN, NP is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Lifestyle Wellness Coach, and a Health & Wellness Consultant.
- Specialty: Wellness
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Martha Klay – RN, MSN, APRN
Marthy Klay is a nurse practitioner specializing in continence management in Massachusetts.
- Specialty: Continence
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Nurses Today, INC
Since 1982, families, physicians and health care institutions have turned to Nurses Today for quality home health care and temporary staffing needs.
- Specialty: Professional staffing
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Pyramid Preventative Medicines
Nancy Onyett, FNP-C is a board certified family nurse practitioner who believes those who incorporate preventative age management into their lives are better able to prevent chronic diseases and optimally manage existing diseases.
- Specialty: Preventative medicine
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DiabeteSteps Rx
DiabeteSteps Rx is a full-service health and wellness organization, providing medical services aimed at the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and its associated medical conditions, founded by FNP, Cheryl Winter.
- Specialty: Diabetes treatment and prevention
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NurseLed Clinics.com
NurseLed Clinics.com is a community where nurse-led or nurse-owned clinics and businesses can get advice and best practices from other nurse managers.
- Specialty: Nurse management
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Hypnotherapy for Health
Seth-Deborah Roth combines her nursing experience with her hypnotherapy expertise to give patients integrated treatment options.
- Specialty: Hypnotherapy
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Flores Law Firm
Joe Flores, RN, MSN, CCRN, FNP, JD is an attorney and a certified family nurse practitioner in Texas. His firm is dedicated to protecting the rights of the elderly and the disadvantaged.
- Specialty: Administrative law, criminal defense
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Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Nurse Entrepreneur Network provides resources for starting, building, and managing nursing businesses.
- Specialty: Entrepreneurial resources
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Mimi Secor
Mimi Secor is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health. She’s also a popular National Speaker and Consultant, educating advanced practice clinicians and consumers globally.
- Specialty: Nurse Practitioner Consulting
Honorable Mention
There were so many fantastic websites authored by nurse practitioners and nurses this year. From entrepreneurs who broke out on their own to start a private practice or launch a product, to writers sharing their nursing experiences, it was too difficult to narrow the list down to just 100. We have added an honorable mention section to our round-up, to account for additional blogs and websites that deserve recognition.
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Joy Elwell – FNP, LLC
Joy Elwell is a family nurse practitioner and DNP (doctorate in nursing practice) who founded her own practice. Her mission is to provide patient-centered primary health care that is high quality, cost effective, and evidenced based.
- Specialty: Personalized health care
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Manhattan House Calls
Denis F. Tarrant is a Nurse Practitioner who is Board Certified in the practice of Adult Primary Care. His practice is currently limited to Internal Medicine Home Visits.
- Specialty: Internal medicine, house calls
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Partners in Healthcare Education, LLC
Partners in Healthcare Education, LLC is committed to providing high quality continuing education programs. As experienced and practicing clinicians, Lane Edwards and Wendy Wright are involved in primary care on a day-to-day basis.
- Featured Article: Continuing Education
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Advanced Clinical Consultants
Scharmaine Lawson-Baker, DNP, FNP-BC has a mission to provide a house call to every senior or disabled person in the City of New Orleans who is not able to visit their regular primary care physician
- Specialty: Senior and disability home care
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Advanced Practice Education Services
A continuing education company independently owned and operated by nurse practitioner Andy Austin FNP-C, APES provides interactive, “hands-on” nationally approved continuing education courses to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
- Specialty: Continuing education
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Life in the Clinic
Life in the Clinic tells stories from the point of view of a pediatric nurse practitioner.
- Featured Post: You get what you pay for
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The Nurse Practitioner’s Place
A nurse practitioner blog that features information relevant to nurse practitioner practice, links to other nurse practitioner, nurse, and medical professional websites.
- Featured Post: Top Ways for Nurse Practitioners to Unwind
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A NURSE PRACTITIONER’S VIEW
This blog, authored by Stephen Ferrara, who also authors the blog on Online Nurse Practitioner Programs.com, highlights current issues, trends, and policies affecting nurse practitioners.
- Featured Post: Modernizing Nurse Practitioner Regulations
Featured Nurse Practitioner Programs
Accreditation: HLC, NCA
PROGRAMS:
- Nurse Practitioner - Adult
- Nurse Practitioner - Family
- Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care
- Nurse Pracitioner - Primary Care Certificate
Accreditation: HLC, NCA
PROGRAMS:
- RN to MSN in Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- RN to MSN in Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- BSN to MSN in Psychiatric / Mental Health Nurse Practitioner