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Credentialing? What to do After Passing Your (Psych) Boards?? Congrats!!! If you were like me and so fixated with passing your boards that you forgot everything your advisor told you then you’re not alone! When I passed and finally came to my senses, I just fumbled around like now what?? If you already have a […]
Continue ReadingAdvice to Newer Clinicians An interesting read about older psychiatrists giving advice to the newer psych doctors titled, the 50 most important things I have learned in my 50 years studying psychiatry: Your patients will be your best teachers. No meeting with any patient is ever routine for them; so it should never be routine […]
Continue ReadingAdvice for Patients who Need Help Some beautiful advice intended for the patients that clinicians seek to help. These 50 tips are derived from 50 years of learning from my own patients, who were always also my best teachers: There are lots of different treatments—no one size fits all. Many treatments have a strong base […]
Continue ReadingThe letter was a rude surprise to Joanne Beattie, a family practice nurse practitioner and a graduate of Fresno State’s Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, who was expecting to hear when she would sit for her board examinations. Instead, the American Nurses Credentialing Center informed her that the program she’d spent $7,200 on wasn’t accredited […]
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