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Join pediatric nurse practitioner and educator Dr. Becky Carson on The Peds NP, a podcast that turns evidence-based practice into practical, real-world strategies for caring for kids. Each episode blends the latest pediatric literature with conversational insights, helping you connect research to bedside decisions with confidence. Becky brings her experience as a dual-certified PNP in acute and primary care and faculty member at Duke University School of Nursing to guide you through cases, concepts, and clinical pearls that matter most. You’ll gain tools to improve outcomes, sharpen your thinking, and feel empowered in those tricky situations where judgment counts. Tune in, learn, and transform the way you practice—and remember, you’re doing it for the kids.
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Becky Carson, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC/AC
Welcome to The Peds NP! I created this podcast as an asynchronous way to help my nurse practitioner students apply the concepts of our evidence-based courses to the patients that they care for at the bedside each and every day. The views are my own. Disclaimer and more at thepedsnp.com
Episodes
Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
15 min
What's the difference between a pediatric patient who needs an LP and one that goes home? Find out on today's episode as we pick apart the presentation of fever without source.
Mar 3, 2021
Mar 3, 2021
9 min
What is one of the unique features of pediatric health care? Monitoring their growth! Join us today as we discuss important primary and acute care issues surrounding pediatric growth.
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021
11 min
Diagnosis is the easy part. Deciding whether to send the comfortably tachypneic bronchiolitic is the hard part. Join us today as we unpack how to make that very decision and hear some pearls on supportive care.
Feb 15, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
8 min
Join us today as we discuss how to identify acute disease by recognizing illness scripts written in test questions or in the medical record, then apply these concepts beyond the classroom.
Feb 10, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
11 min
Prick up your ears for this week's discussion on some favorite principles at The Peds NP. We use acute otitis media as an example of taking it back to the patho and spending an extra 5 minutes teaching the parents.
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021
15 min
Join us as we unpack the ddx and discuss common and severe problems of the eye in pediatric patients. Later, we talk about journal club reviews of the literature and note one of my favorite ways to appraise an article.
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
10 min
Join us as we pick apart the pieces of a well child check and discuss the ideal head-to-toe exam.
Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021
16 min
As my primary care pediatrics students finish their first week of class, we review some questions on the newborn and discuss some key principles of clinical notes to get ready for next week.
Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021
9 min
In this episode of The Peds NP we use a bad example of calling a consult to demonstrate "what not to do" before discussing some good examples and help to develop the critical skill of asking a clinical question.
Dec 15, 2020
Dec 15, 2020
21 min
Get started on documentation with pearls of wisdom on the different pieces of an outpatient note.