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  • Administration vs. Practice

    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 ...
    Posted to NP Practice Owners (Weblog) on October 9, 2008
  • The Nurse Practitioner Trend

    The New York Times reports that trendspotter Faith Popcorn also follows trends. She sees a nurse practitioner: '''I see a nurse practitioner,' rather than a doctor [said Popcorn], 'unless there’s really a problem. I also wait a little longer before I seek help, in case nature cures the ill.'''
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on September 8, 2008
  • You Have to Be a Member?

    My parents retired a few years ago and moved to a ''55 and older'' community on the east coast. They know all their neighbors, and everyone knows everyone else's health status, who sees which health care providers, and every provider's business practices. My dad's quick recovery from knee replacement surgery convinced a neighbor a block over to ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on September 3, 2008
  • Sometimes It’s About Ugly

    ''A familiar chasm separates what women dig from what dudes imagine women dig.'' That's my favorite line from a New York Times article, published today, about a fetish of mixed martial arts participants. It seems the primarily male fighters actually encourage formation of misshapen ''cauliflower ears'' by not preventing and not treating injuries ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on July 31, 2008
  • DNP?

    There have been numerous accounts of NP opinions on thecontinuing education and creation of standardized DNP programs. We have allheard of the pros and cons of each camp and must make a decision on whether ornot this is beneficial to our profession. I for one am in favor of this endeavor for many reasons. Imust first remind you that I own and ...
    Posted to NP Practice Owners (Weblog) on July 14, 2008
  • Canada’s Health Minister Criticizes Physician ‘Territorialism’

    In an attempt to get adequate health care to rural and underserved areas, Ontario is planning to set up 26 nurse-led clinics in the province. One is already in operation in the city of Sudbury. But according to an article in last week's Daily Observer, the Ontario Medical Association is ''concerned perhaps about the level of contact that nurse ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on June 16, 2008
  • Opportunity Lost

    The article starts out promising good PR for nurse practitioners: ''Peggy O'Donnell, a Lynbrook nurse practitioner, knows a thing or two about picking a good primary care physician.'' This is O'Donnell's opportunity to explain that an NP often can be your primary care provider — and even better, that there are studies that show that NP care is ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on May 1, 2008
  • Many New NP Practices … and a Resource

    I have only anecdotal evidence, but it seems that there are a lot of new NP practices opening out there. In the past few weeks, I've received four Practice Snapshot surveys from NPs who've been in business just since the end of 2007 — two of whom I convinced to help me launch a private practice blog on this site, so stay tuned. I've also already ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on April 23, 2008
  • Rate Your Provider. A Good Idea?

    Angie's List has plans to let consumers rate their health care providers. The 12-year-old Indianapolis-based company maintains lists of consumer ratings for all kinds of local businesses and services. According to a company press release, the 600,000 list members have been asking for years to add health care providers, hospitals and insurers to ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on March 27, 2008
  • The Name Game

    We can keep pointing out the differences between NPs and physician assistants, but other health care professionals often want to speak about the two groups together. When they do, they encounter a language problem. Instead of referring to the single group as ''NPs and PAs,'' they often opt for phrases many NPs (and PAs) find offensive, such as ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Voice: NP (Weblog) on March 26, 2008
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