REGINE JOSIE

First Dose: The NP Guide for the 1st 365You passed your boards. You earned your credentials. And now you're standing at the threshold of your first day as a Nurse Practitioner - equal parts excited and terrified. First Dose is the book nobody handed you at graduation. Written by Regine Josie, FNP-BC and founder of Ambiance Regional Medical Group, this practical, encouraging, and deeply relatable guide walks new Nurse Practitioners through every stage of their first year in practice - no matter the specialty.
Whether you're stepping into a primary care clinic as an FNP, managing psychiatric patients as a PMHNP, navigating the intensity of acute care, or finding your footing in pediatrics, women's health, emergency medicine, or healthcare technology - this book was written for you. Inside, you'll find specialty-specific guidance, a month-by-month roadmap for your entire first year, real talk about imposter syndrome, practical documentation and prescribing strategies, tools for communicating with specialists and interdisciplinary teams, CME and certification guidance, and the encouragement to keep going on the days when everything feels hard.
First Dose won't replace your clinical training. But it will be the companion that sits beside you through the uncertainty, the growth, and the moments when you realize you were built for this all along. Your first 365 days start now.