Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants (APPs) play a critical role in the healthcare industry in the United States. Hospitals, urgent care centers, primary care offices, and nearly every specialty have come to rely on Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners as the need for direct and preventive care grows nationwide. Provider Practice Essentials has changed the medical education landscape, creating a groundbreaking comprehensive APP training program with the most concise and focused didactic, and hands-on clinical skills workshops available in the country. They use a completely unique multimedia approach to medical education allowing students to get as close as possible to treating real patients.

As more advanced practice providers become integrated into hospital and healthcare systems, it is vital that they have the appropriate level of confidence and education to provide the best quality treatment. The exceptional and comprehensive workshops provided through Provider Practice Essentials are designed to address the gaps in education and practice APP providers receive, build confidence and procedural mastery, and establish inspiration for lifelong medical learning from a different perspective.

Provider Practice Essentials’ innovative and inclusive approach to teaching these skills in a short amount of time has made a big difference towards giving a medical perspective to APP education. Using a combination of classroom education, hands-on practice, multimedia tools, medical simulators (the same ones the medical schools use), and small class sizes, they give the opportunity for people to learn in a multifaceted way, they “hear it, read it, see it, touch it, feel it, and practice it”.

Participants leave feeling prepared to offer a higher standard of care to patients, with a depth of knowledge including the basics, and things they may have never been taught like identifying rashes, diagnosing chest pain, reading EKGs, and X-rays, and more. The training concentrates on the identification of emergency conditions in all practice settings, providing resources directly targeted to primary care, urgent care, and private practice.

“We show people the basics, building confidence as we practice, and determining what they need to practice more. We show them what they don’t know and then go into ways to increase that knowledge base and give them a path to learn more. We show them how to improve, give better care, have better communication, and feel confident. This is a lifelong benefit to them, and to their patients,” shares Rachel Beatty, ARNP, and co-founder.

Provider Practice Essentials’ live workshops run on a highly efficient model that provides lecture and immersive training, allowing attendees to identify what they need to improve and an hands-on experience. Training goes beyond the workshops. Continuing education and clinical support are offered throughout their members-only website, which includes an expanding library of clinical resources, tools, videos, and content with interactive education – something no other program provides. They are fully accredited with both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) and provide an accredited certificate that satisfies any state licensing board for continuing education credit.

Provider Practice Essentials was started by the husband-and-wife team of Rob and Rachel Beatty after Rachel became a family nurse practitioner in 2017. She realized immediately that there was a disconnect between her education and what was required of her in real-life practice and consulted her husband Rob, an Emergency Medicine physician, and hospital department chair, about what could be done.

“As a new NP doing things and learning remotely, I knew there were deficiencies in the education system. I was disappointed because I needed to have a more hands-on approach to practice more advanced things. I sat down with Rob and identified the top 10 things I wish I had more hands-on  education in, the things we both did in a typical day, and then we decided to start this program because other NPs like me need this, and there wasn’t anything like it out there,” states Rachel.

They developed a plan and a program to help other APPs like Rachel feel more confident and well rounded, as the need for this kind of high quality, useful, and relevant training is only growing. Their results speak for themselves. “We are the training program of choice for several urgent care centers and local universities in our markets. We regularly get feedback from our students and their employers about how our two-day format made a noticeable improvement with their daily practice,” says Rob. In fact, Their program has gained national recognition as a crucial component for any new NP or PA transitioning to practice.

“We have started something very special here, and we are just warming up!” says Rob. Currently, workshops are run in Dallas, Orlando, and Washington DC, with a fourth location opening soon. Learn more about their programs on the Provider Practice Essentials website.