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Received from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners today. Please take time to read this and particpate if you chose.

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AANP continues to work with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry to encourage provider-neutral language in all direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads. To that end, we created a petition to further demonstrate the importance of this issue to the NP discipline. The petition was launched in April and we
wanted to allow NPs who did not participate initially an opportunity to do so now. Please take a few minutes and visit us at http://66.219.50.185/petition/ to read and sign the petition.

Please forward this message to your NP colleagues, as well as others you believe will support this initiative.  We currently have approximately 12,000 petitioners. We will post details on the progress of the petition on our Web site (www.aanp.org) over the next few weeks.

Thank you for taking the time to support this important issue.

You are a Nurse Practitioner with lots of ideas for business ownership.  But as you excitedly speak to your coworkers and peers, you suddenly realize that you may receive little positive support for your efforts.

Most nurses and nurse practitioners did not come up through the ranks learning how to think like a business person. Continue Reading »

This Sunday, I’ll be interviewing Carolyn Zaumeyer, NP on independent practice. Many of you know Carolyn as the author of “How to Start an Independent Practice, The Nurse Practitioner’s Guide to Success”.

In addition to writing, Carolyn is a nationally known speaker on independent practice, and is a member of the Nurse Practitioner Business Owner panel of experts.

If you have not already signed up for access to these interviews, you can do so at  NP Interviews

Date: Sunday August 10, 2008
Time: 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern (adjust for your time zone at www.time.gov)

I ran across a great post listing 30 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know How to Do. As I read through it, I found I was nodding my head. Many of these things, we already do - we’ve been working in teams for years, first as nurses, then as nurse practitioners. However, there are several many NPs need to improve, and they will as we develop our business acumen. I’ve taken a five of the “30 Things” and have added a few comments:
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On July 27, 2008, we interviewed Laura Hoeman about having owning and operating an independent Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner practice. Lots of questions were asked, and great answers given. The interview is available  for replay for the next two weeks at Nurse Practitioner Business Owner.

Enjoy.