Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants (APPs) play a vital role in the U.S. healthcare industry. Hospitals, urgent care centers, primary care offices, and nearly every specialty have come to rely on Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners as the demand for direct and preventative care grows across the country.
Provider Practice Fundamentals has changed the medical education landscape, creating a groundbreaking, comprehensive APP training program with some of the most concise and focused academic and hands-on clinical skills workshops available in the country.
A New Approach to Advanced Practice Provider Education
They use a uniquely hands-on, multimedia approach to clinical education that lets trainees get as close as possible to treating real patients.
As more advanced practice providers become integrated into hospitals and healthcare systems, it’s essential that they have the right level of confidence and education to deliver the highest quality of care.
The intensive, detailed workshops offered through Provider Practice Fundamentals are designed to close the gaps in education and practical application that providers often experience, build confidence and procedural proficiency, and inspire lifelong clinical learning from multiple perspectives.
Provider Practice Fundamentals’ innovative, comprehensive approach to teaching these skills in a short amount of time has made a significant difference in bringing a clinical perspective to APP education.
Hands-On Training and Clinical Simulation
Using a mix of classroom education, hands-on practice, multimedia tools, clinical simulators (the same ones medical schools use), and small class sizes, they give trainees the chance to learn in a variety of ways — they “hear it, read it, see it, touch it, feel it, and practice it.”
Trainees leave feeling prepared to provide a higher standard of care to patients, with a depth of knowledge covering the fundamentals as well as things they may never have been taught, like identifying rashes, evaluating chest pain, reading EKGs and X-rays, and more.
The training focuses on recognizing emergency conditions across all practice settings, offering resources directly targeted to primary care, urgent care, and private practice.
“We teach people the fundamentals, building confidence as we practice, and identifying what they need to work on more. We show them what they don’t know, and then find ways to expand that knowledge base and give them a path to learn more.
We show them how to improve, provide better care, communicate better, and feel confident. This is a lifelong benefit to them, and to their patients,” shares Rachel Beatty, ARNP, and co-founder.
Provider Practice Fundamentals’ live workshops run on a highly effective model that combines lecture with immersive training, helping attendees identify what they need to improve while getting hands-on experience. Training doesn’t end when the workshop does.
Continuing education and clinical support are provided through their members-only website, which includes a growing library of clinical resources, tools, videos, and interactive educational content — something no other program offers.
They’re fully accredited by both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), and offer an accredited certification that satisfies continuing education credit requirements for any state licensing board.
How Provider Practice Fundamentals Got Its Start
Provider Practice Fundamentals was started by the husband-and-wife team of Rob and Rachel Beatty after Rachel became a family nurse practitioner in 2017.
She quickly realized there was a disconnect between her education and what was required of her in real-world practice, and she talked to her husband Rob — an emergency medicine physician and hospital department chair — about what could be done.
“As a new NP figuring things out and learning remotely, I recognized there were gaps in the education system. I was frustrated because I needed a more hands-on way to practice advanced skills.
I sat down with Rob and identified the top 10 things I wished I’d had more hands-on education in — things we both dealt with in a typical day — and we decided to start this program, because other NPs like me need this, and there wasn’t anything like it out there,” says Rachel.
They built a strategy and a program to help other APPs like Rachel feel more confident and well-rounded, as the need for this kind of high-quality, practical, relevant training keeps growing. Their results speak for themselves.
Growing Recognition and Expansion
“We’re the training program of choice for several urgent care centers and healthcare systems in our markets. We regularly get feedback from our trainees and their employers about how our two-day format made a noticeable improvement in their daily practice,” says Rob. In fact, their program has gained national recognition as a critical resource for any new NP or provider transitioning into practice.
“We’ve built something really special here, and we’re just getting started!” says Rob. Currently, workshops run in Dallas, Orlando, and Washington, D.C., with a fourth location opening soon. Learn more about their programs on the Provider Practice Fundamentals website.
