Penn 1994 · One of the first ACNPs in the country
Also known as Dr. Professor Nurse Logan — a family joke that stuck. The story →
Acute care nurse practitioner. 30 years in cardiology. Faculty at Saint Joseph's University. Writing about clinical practice, NP education, and what AI is doing to both.
Dr. Professor Nurse Logan. The artist took some liberties.
Recent
Nursing faculty are being asked to teach AI literacy without being taught it themselves. That gap is going to show up in clinical practice.
Physical ExamEvery year I watch new NPs order an echo to answer a question the exam would have answered in 30 seconds. The problem isn't technology. It's education.
CardiologyThe 48-hour rule is not a safety net. One in seven patients with AF of more than two days has a clot on TEE. Here's what the 2023 guidelines actually require.
Background
I graduated from Penn in 1994 as one of the first acute care nurse practitioners in the United States. I have spent three decades practicing cardiology, training the next generation of NPs, and watching the profession evolve from a niche specialty into a backbone of hospital medicine.
I teach in the ACNP graduate program at Saint Joseph's University and maintain an active clinical practice. I built CertReady, the APP Cardiology Academy, and NursingEdAI because I kept seeing the same gaps — in board prep, in specialty transition, in how faculty produce clinical content.
This site is where I write about what I see.