Partners in Practice

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Joanna Petrides, PsyD Career fatigue is a staggering epidemic where not only the healthcare professionals suffer, but so do their patients and family...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Joyce Ross, MSN, CRNP, CS, CLS, FNLA, FPCNA One in two adults in the United States has a total cholesterol over 200 mg/dL, while one in th...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP The annual cost of chronic pain in the United States is as high as $635 billion a year, which is more than the yearly costs for cancer, heart disease...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Nurse Practitioners were first introduced into healthcare systems in 1965 by Loretta C Ford, and since that time the role has expanded to include ove...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP There are approximately 55 million women of menopausal age in the US. In fact, about 6,000 women reach menopausal age every day. For many, the spectr...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Host Mimi Secor welcomes Women's Health Foundation founder and Executive Director, Missy Lavender, to talk about innovative ways to bring women into ...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Helen Carcio, NP Mimi Secor is joined by Nurse practitioner Helen Carcio, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uni...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Modern clinical practice places high value on the skill of multitasking. Yet recent date indicate that multitasking leads to increased errors and dec...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Pratt Bennett Nurse Practitioners often put their patients' health and well being before their own. A career as an NP can be stressful, ov...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Terri Warren, NP The CDC has recommendations when it comes to the treatment, testing and counseling of patients who may have sexually tran...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Mary Fargen, PA-C Physician assistant Mary Fargen, 2011 AAPA Humanitarian PA of the Year, fell in love with the people of Haiti when...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Nguyen Park, MS, PA-C Almost 4 million people in the US have high triglycerides. What can you do to help improve your patients' heal...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Luis Ramos, PA-C Legislation was introduced last year to legally authorize physician assistants to practice in Puerto Rico, the only...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Patrick Killeen, PA-C As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passes its first anniversary, Patrick Killeen, president of ...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Kirsten Wister, NP After years working in clinical practice in rural Arizona, NP Kirsten Wister had a vision for her own practice that wou...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Barbara Phillips, NP Thousands of nurse practitioners across the country run their own practices. But for those who have never been self-e...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Julia Pallentino, MSN, JD, ARNP-BC Family nurse practitioners frequently see patients with gastrointestinal complaints. When can the famil...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Julia Pallentino, MSN, JD, ARNP-BC Though the number of malpractice suits involving nurse practitioners is extremely low compared to other...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Robert M. Blumm, PA-C Even in times of economic recession, the job outlook for physician assistants is very good. Money Magazine rec...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Robert M. Blumm, PA-C One of the appealing aspects of the profession for many physician assistants is flexibility in employment. Is ...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Gary Falcetano, PA-C As the medical publishing industry evolves, and journals expand into non-print new media, it's a good time to e...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Norma Hannigan Laughter has been shown to lower blood pressure, increase blood flow and build endorphins. Nurse practitioner Norma Hanniga...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Tom Bartol As medicine takes an increasingly evidence-based approach to care, it's more important than ever for busy clinicians to be able...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Betsy Nicoletti ICD-10, HIPPA and OIG sounds more like secret code than medical codes. What do you need to know in order to understa...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Betsy Nicoletti Every year brings changes to Medicare and Medicaid billing, and 2011 is no exception. This year, one main difference...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: David Fahringer, PA-C Saudi Arabia is a country that is quickly developing, and as part of that development, physican assistants are...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Allison Blood You're already a nurse, so why take the extra step to become a Nurse Practitioner? Allison Blood, an NP student at the Massa...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Maryana McGlasson Nurse practitioner Maryana McGlasson waited for months to find out if she would be selected to work with the Doctors wit...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Jill Jones Guest: Jennifer Puleo The recession has not slowed the demand for cosmetic procedures. Last year, more than 10 millio...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Luppo Kuilman, MPA The United States is not the only country experiencing a shortage of physicians. Europeans are feeling the pinch ...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Matt Freitas, FNP-C, PA-C Delivering quality mental health care to patients seems to come with an overwhelming number of obstacles. ...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: James Van Rhee, PA-C The physician assistant profession is one of the fastest growing careers in the United States, and PA programs ...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Susan Matthews, PhD In September, over 5,000 nurses and nurse practitioners were invited to participate in a conference call with First La...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Christine Kessler What makes Americans fat? Diet isn't entirely to blame. Christine Kessler, who is a nurse practitioner in the department...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: David Goldberg, MD, JD Non-invasive body contouring allows physicians to tighten skin without surgery. What are the different types ...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Jeffrey Nicholson, PhD, PA-C All PAs hope to never be sued. But if it happens, will malpractice coverage pay for legal costs and cou...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Russell Dorr, PA-C The virus that nearly wipes out the population in mega-popular horror writer Stephen King's novel The Stand and t...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Eileen O'Grady, PhD, RN, NP Every day, we hear about the rise of chronic disease and rates of obesity. How do we persuade patients to...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Eileen O'Grady, PhD, RN, NP How does the medical home fit into the rapidly changing healthcare model in the United States? The idea o...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Elizabeth Sheehan Seven hundred women a day receive medical care inside moldy tents on the grounds of what once was the Grace Childr...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Donald Sefcik, MD After many years of discussion, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) will offe...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Barbara Phillips Millions of people worldwide have Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. What do you need to know about today's Interne...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Ken Harbert, PhD Do some of your patients have trouble sleeping, experience nightmares or are filled with anger or rage? If so they ...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Yvette Petti, PhD, APRN-BC In the next five years, women will account for more than 10 percent of the veterans in the United States. The g...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Emmanuel Teye Adjase, MD The Rural Health Training School in Kintampo, Ghana, was established in 1969 by the Ministry of Health. Now...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Michael Powe Recently, Aetna, which is one of the largest insurance companies in the United States, announced it would reimburse PAs...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Michael Powe Medicare and physician assistants both entered the healthcare field in the 1960s, but despite their similar ages, physi...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Kimberly Comparetto, NP Alcohol, ecstacy and marijuana use has always been an issue for teens in the United States, but there are other al...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Susan Scanland, MSN, CRNP, GNP-BC How can we limit the risk of Alzheimer's disease? New research suggests a correlation between obesity, t...

Host: Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP Guest: Helen Carcio, NP More than 33 million people in the United States suffer from overactive bladder problems. Bladder health programs are bei...