Happy Tuesday! We are celebrating our PA colleagues, and all the ways you add value to healthcare. You spend thousands of hours training, countless hours boarding, working, keeping up with #CME, reboarding, innovating, volunteering, leading, teaching, and the list goes on! 🫶🏼

In Today’s Edition:

• The PA Name Change

• Let’s Not Lose Sleep Over It

• Speaking of Sleep Deprivation, Apnea is Nothing to Snore About

• Celebrating PA Week, Celebrating our Inspirations

• Unsure of Your Career Path? We Got You

• Pro-tip: Use your CME Allowance to Leverage Higher Pay from Your Employer

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The PA Name Change

In the spirit of PA Week, we thought we would start with a little insight into the great title change debate. Are we physician associates, or physician assistants?!

⚙️ The More You Know

Let’s Not Lose Sleep Over It

And we mean literally. Advanced Practice Providers work hard…too hard.

Some recent research will motivate you to prioritize those ZZZ’s! This robust study (with over 66,000 participants), published in Hypertension, suggests a highly translatable, physiologic connection. Sleep difficulties can lead to a chain of events that can result in hypertension. Although more research on men and non-binary individuals is in order… it begs the importance of early screening in anyone with sleeping difficulties. This article nails the physiologic reasoning! 🎓

Speaking of sleep deprivation, apnea is nothing to snore about

💡Inspiration for Aspirations

Celebrating PA Week, Celebrating our Inspirations

This week, we want to highlight some very inspirational PA colleagues featured in prior editions. The full interviews are linked below. There is so much good content that is valuable beyond just the PA profession. Thanks for paving the way and inspiring the world with all the ways #PAsgoBeyond @AAPA! 🙌🏼 🙏🏼

Meet Shayne Foley, MS, PA-C, Educator, Entrepreneur, Author, & Co-Founder of The PA Blueprint with a focus on optimizing your career!

Meet Marlo Miller, DMS, PA-C. She’s a doctoral PA, educator, PA advocate, entrepreneur, community leader, and prime example of the endless career possibilities we have! Most recently, she has utilized her leadership skills and knowledge to open a Pure Barre to inspire wellness in her community.

Meet Dipu Patel, DMS, MPAS, PA-C. She is an Educator, Consultant, Innovator, former Director of Clinical Pathways at a healthcare technology company and is paving the way for current and future clinicians as the Vice Chair for Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. Her latest accomplishment, is President-elect of our esteemed education association (PAEA). We had to pick her brain and inspire you with her remarkable journey and pioneering position as a PA!

Meet Karli Burridge, MMS, PA-C, FOMA. She is a leader, patient advocate, entrepreneur, educator, and champion in obesity medicine. She is making strides in patient care and education by founding PAs in Obesity Medicine (PAOM), and Gaining Health a company that provides resources for clinicians and organizations who want to start or optimize obesity treatment programs. Her podcast is AMAZING!

Meet Bernard Toney Jr., DMSc, MPH, PA-C. He is a US Combat Veteran, Now a Senior Public Health and Medical Planner for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a former White House Medical Officer, NIH Associate Investigator, Senior Advisor to the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Lynchburg, Leader, Educator, Mentor, global health advocate, and so much more. Connect with him on LinkedIn

Meet Steven Mulik, DMSc, PA-C, CAQ-PSY. He is an award-winning educator, mentor, preceptor and leader field of psychiatric care as a practicing PA for our servicemen and women at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Houston, Texas.

📈Future APPs

Unsure of Your Career Path? We Got You.

Pro-tip: Read about what other awesome APPs are doing! Start with our prior editions, featuring a variety of incredible talent. Connect on LinkedIn and be prepared for guidance from across the world!

🧪Clinical Conundrums: Because We Love a Challenge!

Pro-tip: Use your CME Allowance to Leverage Higher Pay from Your Employer

One of our own, Shayne Foley is featuring a contract negotiation webinar, worth 3 CME credits, and it’s only $99. Receive 10% off with code “LEVELUP” by 8/31/23 and another 50% REBATE by returning your success story to the PA Blueprint. We receive no monetary gain from sharing this... but thinking like a BOSS elevates our entire profession! 💡

🔎ICYMI

Last week was all high fives, Up Top!

• First Nurse Practitioner Accepted to a Medicine Fellowship

• The American Medical Association (AMA) boasts concerns for care shortages across U.S.

• Yet the AMA also produces conflicting solutions

• Forget the drama, let’s refocus on some advances in Alzeheimer’s research

• ICYMI: We had some burn(ed out) content last week, featuring Steven Mulik, DMSc, PA-C, CAQ-PSY

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