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Articles

• Nursing Education
  What NP Programs Are Missing About AI

  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 Exam
  The Physical Exam Isn't Dead. It's Just Untaught.

  Every 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.
• Cardiology
  Cardioversion Without TEE: What the Guidelines Actually Say

  The 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.
• Durable Learning
  What Students Already Know About Learning (That Most Courses Ignore)

  We ran focus groups asking nursing students what actually helped them retain what they learned. They knew the answer. The courses just weren't designed that way.
• Nursing Education
  Faculty Are Already Past Capacity. That's Why AI Matters.

  We're asking nursing faculty to innovate in the classroom while they're rounding on patients at 6 AM. AI isn't a shortcut. It's a force multiplier for people who are already doing too much.
• AI
  You Can't Stop What's Coming

  Slide rules, mainframes, encyclopedias, search engines. Every technology transition had holdouts who were right about the tradeoffs and wrong about the timeline. AI is not different.
• Nursing Education
  The Barrier Was Never Knowledge

  We surveyed 28 nursing faculty on what produces lasting retention. They knew exactly what works. The number one barrier wasn't resistance or skepticism. It was time.
• Cardiology
  The Cardiology Gap

  How much cardiology did your NP or PA program include? The answer is almost always: not enough. Here's what the gap looks like, why it exists, and what to do about it.
• AI
  AI Content Creation Is a Grind. Here's What That Actually Means.

  The hype cycle leaves out the part where you throw away most of what the AI produces. Getting educational content right is iterative, expertise-dependent, and worth it. But it's not push-button.
• Nursing Education
  The Observation Problem

  Clinical education in nursing has become a spectator sport. Students watch. They graduate and model what they saw. Each generation trains the next one in observation. It's a loop.
• Nursing Education
  The Full Circle

  We spent decades moving nursing education out of hospitals and into universities. Now the hospitals are building schools again. The question is whether nursing education gets ahead of this or just watches it happen.