Welcome to our first Acute Care Sign-Out. I'm Mark Karasin, your program director. It's Nurse Practitioner Week, and I want to recognize our own NPs, faculty, preceptors, and alumni. Thank you for caring for our patients and thank you for taking the time to teach the folks coming behind you.
To our students, I'm glad you're part of this community.
So the idea of Sign-Out started a couple years ago, when I was teaching as an adjunct and was chatting with a student who's still a student, so I won't be calling anybody out. And there was a sense of disconnect, even among the cohort. And it's stuck with me. I get it.
Between work, classes, clinical rotations, and everything else, I can understand why that happens, but even thinking about my own experience, I couldn't have gotten through this without mentors and classmates. We checked on each other, helped each other work through things, stayed on top of each other.
And when I think about NP Week, I think about those people, too. The ones who took the time to explain something, who asked the question that made me think, or helped me see what I needed to work on.
That's the part that I want us to build here. A place to stay connected across cohorts and beyond graduation, to share program updates, practical resources, clinical questions, and what you're learning along the way.
Whether we connect during office hours, one-on-one advisement, or during clinical visits, I want you to feel comfortable reaching out.
And I want your input here. Tell me what would be useful and what you'd like to contribute.
Happy NP Week. Stay curious. Take care of yourselves and each other.
