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Right now, you are hearing a lot about Nurse Practitioners. Perhaps you see one for your health care, or maybe you are curious about NPs. It’s possible that you have never heard of Nurse Practitioners at all. Unfortunately, that happens all to often. NPs are healthcare’s best kept secret! Nurse Practitioners healthcare providers of choice for …
Nurse practitioners continue to be healthcares’ best kept secret. I recently moved to Jefferson City, MO which feels a world away from living in a state where NPs have full practice authority (FPA). I knew that the Missouri practice act was less than ideal. That said, I did not expect when I opened up the …
Wonderful video explaining just what the Doctor of Nursing Practice is all about. Feel free to share with your circles, networks, friends, family and patients. .
As any Nurse Practitioner will tell you, running a practice takes a lot of time. Here are a few tips that will allow you to be more efficient, saving you and your staff time and effort. As a bonus, some of them will even increase patient satisfaction. Use templates for standard documentation. You can just …
According to the Pearson Report, there are now almost 158,000 Nurse Practitioners in the United States, however, the actual number of NPs in their own business is unknown. The purpose of this project is to discover how many NPs own their own business and practices as well as how many are considering joining their ranks. …
Not to long ago, I had an emergency coaching session with a Nurse Practitioner who owns a large, very busy clinic regarding an unhappy employee. This employee was subsequently let go and is now suing for improper firing. While this NP had most of her ducks in a row (and thus the lawsuit will likely …
In most states, Nurse Practitioners are still required to have some sort of physician involvement in their practice, often in the form of collaboration or “supervision”. Since the rules vary from state to state as to exactly what that looks like, you are encouraged to become intimately familiar with your state rules. Unlike those who …