Owning your own business comes with many challenges. Including, managing the practice as well as seeing  patients. Although I love seeing patients, I also enjoy spending time managing my own practice. This includes hiring, advertising, determining hours of operations, etc... After practicing for several years now, I have come to really ...

Here at ADVANCE we’re working on a news report about a Florida nurse practitioner who is under criminal indictment for filling out blank prescriptions signed beforehand by her supervising physician. NPs in Florida still have no controlled substances prescriptive authority. Although it was just months after graduation and presigning prescriptions ...

I saw a news blurb the other day about a HIPAA prosecution in Oklahoma. I was struck by how few of these blurbs come across my desk, so I tried to track down just how many HIPAA prosecutions there have been since the law was enacted in 1996. An unscientific and cursory search turned up six criminal prosecutions, including the most recent notice, ...

One important finding of the 2007 National Salary and Workplace Survey of Nurse Practitioners is that NP subspecialties have mushroomed, even since the 2005 survey. We asked NPs to choose their primary employment setting from a list of 22 choices, including ''other.'' Over the years, the setting choices have expanded in response to what survey ...