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 …
NP Interviews: Nancy Dirubbo, FNP-C, FAANP – Travel Clinics
Do you wonder about having your own NP practice? Maybe even two of them? Nancy Dirubbo, FNP-C, FAANP has started not one, but two different practices in two different niches. You may remember Nancy from a few years ago when we talked about her very successful women’s health practice.
Time Savings Tips for your NP Practice
Running a practice takes a lot of time. In an effort to keep your focus on your patients we’ve come up with a few time saving tips to help you stay on track. Use templates for standard documentation. You can just substitute any changes. This is especially useful when you are doing documentation online. Labs: …
NP Interviews: Bob Smithing and Maddy Wiley
Meet two Nurse Practitioners who live and breath entrepreneurship. Not only have they created more than one practice, they have created social networking among NPs before anyone even knew what the term was. If you’ve heard of “the nurse practitioner list serve” – then you know exactly what I’m referring to. Many people in the …
Give Back and Grow
Regardless of what the economy is doing right now, people still need health care. NPs are in position to build a business and give back to the community at the same time. How you ask? Nurses and Nurse Practitioners have always been a resourceful group of individuals. We pay attention to the “non-health” issues that …
NP Interview: Carolyn Zaumeyer, NP
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 …
NP Interview: Laura G Leahy, MSN, APN, CNS, FNP, BC
July seems to be the month for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners when it comes to NP Interviews…we have two very different practices we’ll be looking at. First up is this Sunday July 13, 2008 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern with Laura G Leahy. Ms. Leahy is a dually certified Child/Adolescent and Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse …