Answering Nurse Practitioner questions about business…
Teresa has asked me what do I think about having a niched practice such as with men’s health, since women have GYNs; and I’ll tell you, I think it’s a great idea.
First of all it does a couple of different things. It allows you to practice in an area that you have passion for, and I think that is so important. I mean, let’s face it. We all work really hard, and we’re working harder every day. So, why not practice in an area that brings you a lot of pleasure, it brings you a lot of joy, and it allows you to use your expertise in that particular area.
So, one of the things that I would recommend if you are just getting started in your practice is go ahead and have a general practice, build it up, just let everybody know that you have a growing interest, and a growing expertise in men’s health, pain management, bladder health, dermatology, whatever it is. And then as you get more patients in that particular area, and once you have enough that you can start backing off on the primary care, you’ll be able to just move right into that particular specialty and move forward and enjoy your practice a great deal.
Now this is something that I talked about not too long ago in Progress Notes, which are business tips for nurse practitioner entrepreneurs. You can access archive by going to www.NursePractitionerBusinessOwner.com and clicking on Progress Note Archives. If you would like to sign up for the newsletter there you can go ahead and do that there. And I’ll see you next time for the next NPBO Minute.
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