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Happy NP Week, Convenient Care NPs!
November 10, 2009 11:46 AM by Jennifer Ford
It's National NP Week and you NPs working in convenient care are especially appreciated, because without you the clinics you work in couldn't exist. Convenient care clinic operators value what you do, and not just from a business perspective. Take a look Read More...
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What Is Retail Clinics 2.0?
October 29, 2009 2:49 PM by Jennifer Ford
This week I attended a forum in Philadelphia held by the Convenient Care Association (CCA). It was designed to address where convenient care is positioned now and where it's headed. In terms of presenters and panel participants, the cast was star-studded: Read More...
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Free Convenient Care Forum in Philly
October 15, 2009 11:50 AM by Jennifer Ford
Hey, convenient care NPs! Are you close to the Philadelphia area? Are you interested in getting engaged in the conversation about where retail healthcare is going? Is it expanding? Is it a dying fad? There's a free way to learn more: On October 26th, Read More...
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Ambiguity in Retail Healthcare
October 13, 2009 10:45 AM by Sharon Ledbetter
During this last month we have been overrun with patients seeking flu shots and seeing patients with colds, strep throat and flu. I have seen some folks who are very ill and without doubt have influenza. But mainly I have seen the worried sick. People Read More...
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Flu shots! Flu Shots! FLU SHOTS!!!!
October 5, 2009 10:23 AM by Jodi Delagrave
Wow, what a rush! We started administering flu shots in our retail clinics Septemter 1 st , and have been extremely busy this season thus far, and it is not even really prime flu shot season yet. I believe there are two reasons to explain the large numbers Read More...
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Swine Flu Panic in Retail Healthcare
September 22, 2009 11:40 AM by Theresa Goodman
Since the beginning of the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, the public has relied on retail clinic practitioners to provide education, guidance, testing, assurance and treatment. The media is playing a vital role in keeping the public updated; however, I am Read More...
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Notes From a Veteran in Retail Health
September 21, 2009 3:13 PM by Sharon Ledbetter
This is my third year working in a retail clinic. And considering that the concept is new, I feel like a veteran. And as a veteran retail clinician, I have learned a few things about myself and about healthcare in the United States and about working for Read More...
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Working Part Time in Retail Healthcare
September 2, 2009 10:58 AM by Jodi Delagrave
I worked in primary care for a number of years working 4 days a week 8–5, which is the norm for most medical providers in clinic settings. I do remember the days of staff nursing where I worked three 12-hour shifts during the week and fewer shifts during Read More...
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Tools for Clinic Success
August 27, 2009 2:15 PM by Theresa Goodman
While working in a retail clinic, I have identified the following tools as essential for building a successful, thriving clinic: word of mouth, positive perception and community awareness. It is my experience that although company marketing is necessary, Read More...
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Patients Under 18 in Retail Healthcare
August 17, 2009 10:41 AM by Pat Bird
We are doing lots of sport physicals as school is about to start in many of the surrounding counties. I think that sometimes when something like a sport exam is offered at such a low cost and at very convenient times people do not take them as seriously Read More...
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Healthcare Reform: A Nurse Practitioner's Perspective
August 10, 2009 10:53 AM by Sharon Ledbetter
Most of my spare time is spent listening to and watching the healthcare reform debate. I know that I favor a single payer system but I also know many people do not. My intent is not to get in a debate about this, as I don't think it will happen. What Read More...
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Convenient Care Conference
August 5, 2009 10:07 AM by Jodi Delagrave
I had the opportunity to attend the Retail Clinician Education Conference in Orlando, Fla. this week August 3rd-5th. I did not attend the conference last year and was very excited to attend this year. The presentations at the conference covered a broad Read More...
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Rudeness in Retail Healthcare
July 27, 2009 10:26 AM by Theresa Goodman
The word "rude" in the dictionary means lack refinement, cultural, or elegance. Another definition that I found on the Internet is "an impolite action, contrary to the usual rules observed in society, committed by one person against another." I think Read More...
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What Brings NPs Together
July 23, 2009 9:12 AM by Jayne Targgart
[Note from the editors: Following is a post by a former Real Life in Retail Health blogger about this summer's American Academy of Nurse Practitioners conference. She has left the retail health industry but still wished to share her thoughts on this conference Read More...
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Uninsured Patients in Retail Healthcare
July 21, 2009 10:05 AM by Pat Bird
I am finding that more and more people are presenting without health insurance. I am also finding that more and more people are presenting with problems that are inappropriate to this setting as well as a traditional health care setting. Are the two related? Read More...
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