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How locum tenens work helps physicians and APPs reclaim control

KevinMD

I recently spoke with a nurse practitioner looking for a lifestyle change that could give her more balance without stepping away from medicine. Burnout isn’t a weakness—it’s a warning sign. “I love caring for patients,” she told me, “but I don’t even recognize my life anymore.

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Deprescribing antihypertensives with weekly taper intervals in long-term care, secondary data analysis of OptimizeBP data [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Most pharmacists/nurse practitioners used an optional tracking sheet to track their deprescribing and submitted them regularly to the study team. Dataset: OptimizeBP blood pressure measurements from 2021–2024. OptimizeBP is an antihypertensive deprescribing trial in long-term care.

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Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate comprehensiveness of care measure reliability for clinicians and advanced practice practitioners (e.g. nurse practitioners and physician assistants), as well as validity of the measure and its association with poorly controlled diabetes (e.g. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study).

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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Each practice addressed referral to treatment from behavioral health providers (BHP) uniquely, including care coordination with an external BHP, a new BHP hire, and an existing clinician obtaining psychiatric nurse practitioner degree. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population studied: Primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants), 43 in phase 1 and 13 in phase 2. Objective: To evaluate the effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in clinical practice.

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Register Now for the AAFP 2024 Fall Forum CME Event

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The 2024 Fall Forum is designed to bring together family physicians, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from across the state. The event focuses on the latest clinical practices, innovations in healthcare, and topics trending in the field of family medicine.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices. No counseling is offered.