Practice Management Article: Role of the Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner

The Spring 2013 issue of Practice Management is now online. In it, you will find practice management articles of interest for Nurse Practitioners, including:

Role of the Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner
By Maureen Bencale, DNP, DCC, FNP-BC

The nurse practitioner (NP) role was originally envisioned in 1965 at the University of Colorado. Loretta C. Ford, EdD, and Henry Silver, MD, perceived that NPs could help control costs and improve care by expanding their nursing role to include a focus on health promotion, illness prevention, and provision…

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Practice Management Article for Nurse Practitioners

In the latest issue of Practice Management, you will find practice management articles of interest for Nurse Practitioners, including:

Arizona Nurse Practitioner 2012 Salary Survey
By Erich Widemark, PhD, RN, FNP-BC

With a changing healthcare market and the instability of employment in the United States, figuring the “market value” for a nurse practitioner (NP) can be challenging. The healthcare market continues to change, while external forces impact the availability of practitioners in many different specialties.…

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Practice Management Article: Professional Partners in a Specialty Practice

In the latest issue of Practice Management, you will find articles that will help nurse practitioners manage their practice better, including:

Professional Partners in a Specialty Practice
By Carolyn Finocchiaro, APRN, CLS, and Kristie Lloyd, MS, RD, CDE

Carolyn Finocchiaro is certified as an adult and geriatric nurse practitioner (NP), who has specialized in lipid disorders for almost 15 years and became a certified lipid specialist in 2007. In addition to being a registered dietitian, Kristie Lloyd has a master’s degree in exercise science and became…

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Practice Management – Winter 2012

The Winter issue of Practice Management is now online. In it, you will find articles that will help you manage your practice better, including:

Evidence Base for Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Outcomes
By Ramona Benkert, PhD, ANP-BC

A growing demand exists for evidence-based practice outcomes for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Yet, the call for outcomes often ignores the long history on APRN outcomes that already exists. Many APRN students, new graduates, and even some seasoned practitioners are unaware of the earliest…

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Practice Management – Growing Pains

In the Fall issue of Practice Management, you will find articles that will help you manage your practice better, including:

Growing Pains…and Other Tales of Expansion
By Wendy L. Wright, MS, RN, ARNP, FNP, FAANP

When I opened Wright & Associates Family Healthcare, PLLC, in Amherst, NH, my goal was to have more than one site. I knew from the beginning that the second clinic would be located in Concord, NH. I had consistently heard from patients and other people in Concord that the few primary-care providers (PCPs)…

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Nurse Practitioner Business Management Article

In the latest issue of Practice Management, a A Business Guide for Nurse Practitioners, you will find articles that will help you manage your practice better, including:

Lessons Learned in Independent Practice
By Patti Wheaton, APRN-CNP

If someone had told me 20 years ago as a new nurse practitioner (NP) that I would have my own independent practice, I would have laughed myself silly. But here I am, almost 9 years later, well into that very situation. In 2003, I opened the Faith Family Clinic in Jenks, Oklahoma, for the purpose of serving…

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Practice Management – an Article for Nurse Practitioners

The summer issue of Practice Management, a A Business Guide for Nurse Practitioners, is now online. In it, you will find articles that will help you manage your practice better, including:

A New Model for the Establishment of a Continence Care Program of Excellence (Part 2 of 2)
By Helen Carcio, MS, MEd, ANP-BC

The first part of this two-part article explored potential opportunities for nurse practitioners (NPs) to act as intrapreneurs. Some NPs who want to establish their own niche in bladder care may find setting up a continence care program (CCP) within an existing medical practice to be a more comfortable…

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NPs – Learn the Benefits of the Electronic Health Record

In the latest issue of Practice Management, you will find business news and articles of interest to Nurse Practitioners, including:

Benefits of the Electronic Health Record
By KC Arnold, ANP, BC-ADM

By now, most nurse practitioners (NPs) should have at least some working knowledge of the electronic health record (EHR). No matter how a particular practitioner feels about using the EHR, it is definitely here to stay. The EHR is the only method of keeping medical records that has ever been used in…

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Business Management Articles for Nurse Practitioners

The Summer 2012 issue of Practice Management is now online. In it, you will find business news and articles of interest to Nurse Practitioners, including:

Following a Philosophy Leads to Independent Practice
By Joan E. Romboli, DNP, APRN as told to Mary Carole McMann, MPH

Joan E. Romboli did not start out to be a business owner; it was more of a progression. The germ of an idea may have been planted earlier than she consciously recalls. A close friend with whom Joan earned her associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees distinctly recalls that Joan mentioned having…

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