[VIDEO] How Do I Start a Practice?

November 10, 2011

This is literally the most common question I receive from Advanced Practice Nurses (NPs, CNMs, CNS, CRNA’s) and Physician Assistants/Associates (PAs). So this week, I thought I would create a video to answer just that question. It’s short, about 10 minutes explaining the framework I teach in practice and business startup. Please share your own [...]

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Nurse Practitioner Week Nov 13-19, 2011

November 5, 2011

Get ready for National NP Week! It’s a great time to promote yourself and the profession.  And the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners has made it easy with their Online Toolbox full of goodies you can utilize, just like the image in this post. Take action today to make sure that your community knows about [...]

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Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants ARE a business.

October 27, 2011

You are invited to join us on a FREE webinar on Sunday 10/30/2011. Keep reading to learn more! As a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician Assistant, you work exceedingly hard every day to make sure your patients get the best you can offer. You have been well educated as a clinician and are quite accomplished [...]

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Avoiding Potential Legal Issues

October 26, 2011

All health care professionals including advanced practice clinicians (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) want to prevent any potential legal actions related to the excellent care they provide. Let me first start off by saying, I am not an attorney and I don’t play one in real life, on TV or on the internet. I had [...]

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Protecting Your Digital Identity

October 12, 2011

As a professional, you are very aware of the need to protect your personal and professional information. But how much thought have you given to your digital identity? Are you even aware of the far reaching consequences that miss or stolen digital identity can have? The following is a true story that was recently shared [...]

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Does your employee channel Godzilla?

September 28, 2011

Hopefully you’ve never met Godzilla, but statistics tell me…you have. In fact, Godzilla may even be working for you right now! Godzilla Characteristics: Godzilla can be quite cunning in how he/she undermines the fabric of your business, and often times its quite insidious making it hard to detect at first. It can be a very [...]

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Does FEAR Stop You?

September 14, 2011

One of the most common obstacles the clinicians (nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered nurses)  I work with need to overcome is fear. Many  may be afraid of making the transition from being a paid provider in a clinic to running their own clinic and paying others, afraid of marketing themselves, afraid of learning new skills, [...]

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Are you worth it?

September 7, 2011

There is no question that Nurses and Nurse Practitioners play increasingly vital roles in our health care system. Yet our effectiveness is being undermined by the rising impact of environmental stress caused by alarms on monitors, ringing pagers, the pressure to manage more patients in less time, increasing amounts of paperwork, and a number of [...]

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Are you prepared when the payer doesn’t pay?

August 31, 2011

Those of you practicing in California during the summer of 2009 likely remember all too clearly when the state of California issued IOU’s for health care services you provided. This came to mind this past week when an insurance company in my state was “outed” for delaying over 300,000 claims to providers since Jan 2011 [...]

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[Video] Medicine 2.0

August 18, 2011

 

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