American Association of Nurse Practitioners

I tell patients, I may not solve all of your problems, but I feel confident in saying that some weight loss is probably not going to hurt the situation.

And a quick plug for the APPs, right now there is not a certification specifically for NPs and PAs, but the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, so ANP, and the Physician Assistant and Physician Associate Academy.

Sorry, I may have the acronym incorrect, but they partnered to create a certificate program for APPs.

And so I would strongly encourage all of your MPs and PAs to take a look at that certification.

Dr. Steven Ferrara is a nurse practitioner, educator, and health policy leader with over 25 years of experience, and he's at the forefront of how AI is actually entering clinical practice.

He's the founder of AI Nurse Academy, the immediate past president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the founding associate dean for artificial intelligence at Columbia University School of Nursing.

He's here to talk about something every therapist is wrestling with right now, how to use AI responsibly, how to evaluate the tools flooding the market, and how to cut the documentation burden without cutting corners on care.

[upbeat music] Steven, welcome.

From the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, I'm your host, Dr. Sophia Thomas, and this is NP Pulse, the voice of the nurse practitioner.

Welcome to NP Pulse, AANP's official podcast bringing you unique nurse practitioner voices and expertise on issues that matter to NPs.

Today, I'm joined by Alana Cavanaugh and Felicia Bowen, two very credentialed nurse practitioners who are going to speak with us about obstructive lung disease, specifically asthma.

We'll be talking about testing and phenotyping for asthma and making a diagnosis.

Sure.

Yeah.

We're in the process of developing a toolkit, a point of care toolkit with AANP that hopefully will educate folks that need more information in this space, really bring them up to date in the asthma world, and hopefully feel comfortable prescribing some of these biologics and in the primary care space, because that is really where we're moving towards.

There are so many patients that need to be seen that the pulmonary referrals really should be reserved for your step five individuals that really need a much higher level of care because primary care does a lot.

From the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, I'm your host, Dr. Sophia Thomas, and this is NP Pulse, the voice of the nurse practitioner.

Welcome to NP Pulse, AINP's official podcast, bringing you unique nurse practitioner voices and issues that matter to NPs and to our patients.

Today, I'm joined by Lisa Anderson and