Information On Starting Your Own Nurse Practitioner Business

Barbara Phillips is one of the most savy nurse practitioners that I know. She is an independent nurse practitioner based in Washington state and spends a LOT of time after her practice hours to keep us up to speed on how to start your own nurse practitioner office. There are also ways to have a NP practice online as well. She sent me an email recently and mentioned that I might want to post about it here. You can better believe this is a teleseminar you won't want to miss.

"Just wanted to let you know that I'm doing a teleseminar on 4/25/10 on Getting Started In Your Own Practice. I will be launching a bootcamp from this call."
I am a member of her website even though I am not ready to become an independent NP yet. (One day I would like to) It's great reading material and the message boards have loads of great NPs collaborating together "getting it done!"

Pop on over from the banner link below and tell her I sent you. You won't regret checking out her resources.



Cheers!

Change Of Shift Is Up At Nurse Me

Change of Shift is up over at Nurse Me. She was nice enough to enter my entry without my sending one in this time. I am enjoying the edition of the new doctor at the office and will enjoy being caught up on paperwork so I can blog more. Click here for the COS!

How Do You Work With A Collaborating MD Who Thinks You Are Going To Steal His/Her Patients?

I was visiting Barbara Phillip's Facebook site and noticed a question that was presented regarding collaborating MD and NP's working together and the concern about stealing their patients. This is a valid concern when one has already established a practice and needs someone to take the edge off due to a volume of new patients. In fact, this is the exact scenario that is occurring in the office I work at now. The following reply is what I said on Barb's facebook.

I think that you cannot steal a patient who is totally satisfied with their care. I have a new MD coming into the office in a few weeks and my patients are concerned that they will be made to see him instead of me which is not true. He gets the new patients and I keep mine. I see my other collaborating MD's patients if he is not available and he does the same for me. A few have switched from his side to me and vice versa but not enough to concern me. If I saw a a drastic move over, I would have to seriously evaluate my practice technique. We use anonymous surveys at the office in order to ascertain patient satisfaction good or bad.

What do you think about "stealing patients"? Do you think that it's really effecting MDs who hire NPs?