Apr 15 2007
NP Resources
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BILLING RESOURCES
Office Ally - This is the clearing house that I use for electronic billing. There is no charge to providers unless over half your billling is Medicare or Medicaid. If so, your fee is still only $20.00. They just launched a new practice managment module that is free and plan to launch an online EMR system as well in the near future.
CLINICAL PRACTICE SUPPLIES
Esurg - What I like about Esurg is that you can buy items in small amounts. This is important especially as you start out and you are trying to figure out just what you need and how much. I find their prices, for the most part very reasonable. If you decide to give them a try, let them know we sent you. Thanks!
Medical Arts Press - They have some clinical supplies, but mostly forms, prescriptions and the like.
CONTINUING EDUCATION - Clinical
FHEA - Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc. is an NP-owned company dedicated to helping nurse practitioners, advanced practice and ambulatory care nurses achieve certification through review courses and to maintain professional competence by providing live continuing education seminars, web and computer based learning courses, audio/video learning modules and books.
NPACE - Provides continuing education conferences yearly in several locations. Mostly East Coast.
PRI-MED - Offers both online and offline continuing education. It’s high quality and it’s free!
University of Washington/CNE - University of Washington, School of Nursing, Continuing Nursing Education. Each Fall, UW-SON holds it’s annual NP Conference that is fantastic. This is not one to miss if you can help it!
University of Washington/CME - UW, Continuing Medical Education
EMR Resources & Software
EMR Update - An unbiased, independent and impartial forum for those who use, develop and support EMR systems.
GENERAL
NP Central - lots of resources for NP’s. Home of the largest email lists for NP’s - NP Clinical and NP Info. Very active lists.
What is a Nurse Practitioner - according to Wikipedia
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Carolyn Buppert, NP, JD
LIABILITY/MALPRACTICE RESOURCES
NSO - If you have an alternative practice, or you are perceived to have an alternative practice (ie, having an Acupuncturists in your practice), they will not insure a NP practice.
ONLINE PRESENCE
Register a domain name - this is the service I use for all my domain names.
Hosting Accounts - very important! I’ve used this service for the past 3 years - I was only down once for a few hours (but then most of North America was out at the same time).
Build a website - This software makes it easy if you are the do it yourself kind.
Free Blogging Platforms – a blog is a good way to quickly build an online presence. Two free resources are www.wordpress.com and www.blogger.com. Both are hosted options, which means your blog is hosted on their servers. If you prefer to host your own blog on your on hosting account, then see www.wordpress.org.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners - Credentials FNP’s and ANP’s
American College of Nurse Practitioners
American Nurses Credentialing Center - Credentialing for many nurse and nurse practitioner specialties.
National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
Olympia Area Advanced Practice Association - Olympia, WA and surrounding region
PRESCRIPTION INFORMATON
DEA - Apply here to get your DEA number
NURSE PRACTITIONER PUBLICATIONS
Advance for Nurse Practitioners
The Nurse Practitioner Journal
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT PUBLICATIONS
Physicians Practice - Practice Management Journal
Tags: business resources, General, nurse practitioner resources, practice management resources
NPs going into business…need an array of services available…such as attorneys who are familiar with NP practice acts in each state, insurance companies familiar with NP scope of practice, more business classes. Information on contract language when applying for positions…more options available in the hiring process especially in this day and age of reimbursement …percentages are a far better income possibility.
Meg Helgert FNP
(Portland Oregon)
I really enjoy this site, it is very informative and supportive. I also use Office Ally, I find it to be a good fit for my practice at this time and the price is great. I am going to check out the esurg site and see what they have to offer. Please keep up the good work and I will send resources as I find them.
Can others share the difference between what Office Ally would provide compared to Medisoft? If you have OfficeAlly, do you not use a biller? I have contracted with a biller who I really like, we have just not gotten started yet. Thanks, and again, this site is so supportive for me. Carla Anderson
Under Continuing Education Resources- I find www.CEU4U.com to be excellent. They often have articles that are worth 2-4 contact hours instead of the usual 1, and you get a great certificate printed out immediately. The website has a tracker that keeps track of your hours and most of them are ANCC accredited.
I also love E-Surg, and they were very quick to set up an account and line of credit for me.
Another site I would like posted as a resource is RxPads.com I was able to order some security prescriptions very easily, and so in addition to using the regular ones off of the emr, it is good to have the special security ones for class 2 drugs. They cannot be copied, and the pharmacists can check for fraud easily with a special light.
Another Medical supply order site is called www.QuickMedical.com Every site has different things, but they have great table paper in colors, and sundry jars, and just some great odds and ends.
I don’t know if this would be the correct category for this but AT&T sent me an invitation to be on a wecast entite “The Girls Guide To Building A Million Dollar Business” The person who will be giving the presentation is Susan Solovic. It looks as if she has a background in journalism and the media… The one thing that attracted me to her website is the fact that most of us are women and I am not trying to leave males out but there are a lot of resources for women who own their own business (organizations etc) at the bottom of her webpage… and continous feeds on what is going on in the business world…. I just thought it could be another resource for all of us… SBTV.com is the name of the website.
Regards,
Thanks for all of the great resources! I just love this site!
Hello. I just joined NP in Business yesterday and I am enjoying all the talk. I am an FNP with 12 years experience currently living in Florida. I am seriously thinking of get into my own practice. Is there anyone out there from Florida that can give me any advice? Also, is anyone looking for an NP partner in the Orlando area.
I am new to the (rearch triangle) NC area and looking to start my own practice. Is there anyone interested in starting up ? Please feel free to email me. Does anyone have advice for getting an MD to “collaborate” with?
Kara
Any one have a curriculum for smoking cessation classes?
Great resources for NP professionals. I have another source that will be perfect for the list, which is Advance NP Jobs.
I am licensed in NY & NJ, and have a business in NY. My collaborator is licensed only in NY. My business can be portable (laser). Does anyone know if I can practice in NJ while my collaborator is not licensed in that state?
Thanks