New Grad Guide
Everything You Need Between Graduation and Your First Day
A step-by-step video course covering boards, licensure, credentialing, the job search, and your first 30 days built by a practicing PMHNP for new-grad PMHNPs stepping into independent psychiatric practice.
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No program hands you a roadmap for the ninety days between graduation and your first day on the job. You’re left to figure out, on your own, whether to sit for ANCC or AANPCB, what order licensure and credentialing actually happen in, and how to read a contract before you sign it — all while trying to land your first position. This course is that roadmap. It’s the order of operations I wish someone had handed me, built module by module so you move through it in the sequence that actually saves you weeks.
The 90-Day Roadmap
Before the module-by-module content, this short overview lays out the full sequence — boards, licensure, credentialing, job search, day one — so you know exactly where you are and what’s next at every point. It’s the first video in your course, not numbered inside any module.
Eight modules. Thirty-two lessons. The order you actually need them in.
You Just Graduated — Here Is Exactly What Happens Next
The 90-day roadmap, before you touch a single administrative task.
- Congratulations, Now the Real Work Begins
- The Order of Operations Nobody Explains
- Building Your Compliance Folder From Day One
- Managing the Wait Between Milestones
ANCC vs. AANPCB — Choosing Your Exam and Applying Correctly
A genuine two-exam choice now — here’s how to pick correctly the first time.
- ANCC vs. AANPCB — What Actually Differs
- Reading the Blueprint — What Each Exam Tests
- Submitting a Clean Application
- Choosing the Right Exam for You
How to Study for Boards — A Real 8-Week Plan
Not a generic study guide — an actual week-by-week plan built for working new grads.
- Building Your 8-Week Study Calendar
- High-Yield Content Areas — Where to Spend Your Time
- Practice Questions and Test-Taking Strategy
- The Final Week — Tapering and Test-Day Logistics
You Passed (or Didn’t) — What Happens Next Either Way
A calm plan for either outcome, because both are survivable and both have a clear next step.
- You Passed — Immediate Next Steps
- If You Didn’t Pass — What Actually Happens
- Requesting Your Official Certificate and Transcripts
- Talking About Your Exam Journey Professionally
Getting Your State License
The paperwork maze, demystified state by state.
- Understanding Your State’s Application Requirements
- Assembling Your Application Packet
- Common Delays and How to Avoid Them
- Multi-State Considerations and Compact Licensure
DEA, NPI, Malpractice & Credentialing
The four pieces of paper you can’t practice without.
- Getting Your NPI — Type 1 vs. Type 2
- Applying for Your DEA Registration
- Choosing Malpractice Coverage — Claims-Made vs. Occurrence
- Payer Credentialing — What It Is and Why It Takes So Long
Finding Your First PMHNP Job
Where to look, what red flags to avoid, and how to read a contract before you sign it.
- Where New Grads Actually Find Good First Jobs
- Evaluating a Job Posting Before You Apply
- The Interview — Questions to Ask, Questions to Expect
- Evaluating a Job Offer — Reading the Contract Before You Sign
Preparing for Day One & Your First 30 Days
What actually happens your first month, and how to walk in prepared instead of overwhelmed.
- What to Do the Week Before You Start
- Surviving Day One
- Building Your Rhythm in the First 30 Days
- A Message From Priscilla — You’re Ready
Built for the new grad who wants to skip the wasted weeks.
Providers Studying for Boards
Newly Certified, Awaiting Licensure
Providers Searching for Their First Job
Providers Evaluating a Job Offer
New Grads Starting in 30 Days or Less
I’m Dr. Priscilla Garrett, DNP, PMHNP-BC.
I built this course because I remember exactly how disorienting those first 90 days were — not the clinical work, but everything around it. Which exam to sit for. What order licensure, NPI, DEA, and credentialing actually happen in. How to tell a red flag in a contract from a normal clause. Nobody hands new grads this roadmap, so most of us figure it out the expensive way, one delay at a time. This course is the roadmap I built so you don’t have to.
How to Use This Course
This course is professional education and coaching, not legal or clinical advice.
- Verify current certification, licensure, and credentialing requirements directly with ANCC, AANPCB, your state board, the DEA, and your payers — requirements and timelines change.
- Have any employment contract reviewed by a licensed attorney in your state before you sign — this course teaches you what to look for, not a substitute for legal review.
- Use this course alongside — never instead of — your own judgment, your state’s practice regulations, and your licensing board’s current requirements.
This course does not constitute legal advice, clinical supervision, or a guarantee of any employment or licensure outcome. You remain fully responsible for your own decisions.
Before You Enroll
What format is the course in?
Video lessons hosted in your student portal on this site, organized into 8 modules, plus downloadable checklists and templates attached to each module.
Do I need to create an account?
Yes. After checkout you’ll receive login credentials to your student portal, where your course and all its lessons and downloads appear automatically.
How long do I have access?
One Year. This is a one-time purchase, watch at your own pace and revisit any module whenever you need it, including once you’re already on the job.
Is this legal advice or clinical supervision?
No. This course is educational content about the licensure, credentialing, and job-search process — not a substitute for legal review of your contract or for any required clinical supervision or collaborative relationship. See “How to Use This Course” above.
Can I share my login or the downloads with a colleague?
No. Course access and all materials are proprietary content licensed to you individually by Practical Provider Group, LLC. Sharing logins or redistributing files is prohibited.
What’s your refund policy?
Because this is an instant-access digital course, all sales are final once portal access has been granted. If you run into a technical problem accessing your course, contact priscilla@practicalprovidergroup.com and I’ll make it right.
Stop losing weeks to a step done out of order.
Practical Provider Group, LLC provides professional coaching and clinical education. This is not legal advice or clinical supervision and does not replace any supervisory or collaborative relationship required by your state’s scope of practice. All content is proprietary to Practical Provider Group, LLC; no refunds after portal access is granted.