The Fall 2011 issue of Practice Management, A Business Guide for Nurse Practitioners, is now online. In this issue you will find:
Marketing—Your Other Full-Time Job (Part 1 of 2)
By Barbara C. Phillips, NP as told to Mary Carole McMann, MPH
Although Barbara C. Phillips is a clinical nurse practitioner (NP), she may be best known as the founder of Nurse Practitioner Business Owner (NPBO™), which assists entrepreneurial NPs with business development and marketing. Since there were not many mentors when she started her own practice, she…
Professional Survival in an Economic Crisis (Part 2 of 2)
By Melanie Balestra, NP, ESQ
In today’s economy, many nurse practitioners (NPs) are looking for ways to increase their earnings by branching out on their own. The good news is…this can be accomplished with the help of strong business and marketing plans. Research, planning, and a little creative thinking will take you a long…
Identifying Standards of Care for Women’s Health
By Carolyn Buppert, JD, NP
Standard of care is one of those phrases—like scope of practice—for which there is a legal definition. The legal definition of standard of care is such reasonable and ordinary care, skill, and diligence as used by practitioners in good standing in the same geographical area, in the same general type…
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