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BUSINESS AND LEGAL ESSENTIALS FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS
Business and Legal Essentials for Nurse Practitioners
From Negotiating Your First Job Through Owning a Practice
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By
Sally Reel, PhD, RN, CFNP, Clinical Professor, Coordinator, Nurse Practitioner Programs, University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, AZ, USA
Ivo Abraham, PhD, RN, FAAN, Principal, Matrix45, Earlysville, VA, USA

Description
This essential book covers business and legal issues ranging from negotiating an employment contract to establishing an independently owned nurse practitioner practice. Each section builds on the last and provides greater detail from a legal standpoint, plus it describes what resources and options are available to the nurse practitioner after graduation and beyond. Written for the student, graduate, and practicing nurse practitioner, Business and Legal Essentials for Nurse Practitioners outlines the necessary steps to eventual practice ownership.

Contents


I. Advanced Practice


1. Entering Advanced Practice

2. Scope of Practice

3. Prescriptive Authority

4. Credentialing



II. Owning a Practice


5. What to Think About before Going into Business

6. Advantages and Disadvantages to Owning a Practice: Feasibility and Finance

7. The Business Plan

8. Practice Management

9. Reimbursement

10. Marketing

11. Physical Practice Space Considerations

12. The Electronic Practice: Electronic Health Records, Health Information Technologies and HIPAA Considerations

13. Managing Growth, Thinking Beyond the Box: The (Not-So-Obvious) Opportunities and the (Not-So-Hidden) Dangers



III. Academic Practices and Alternate Business Forms


14. Academic Practice and Academic Nursing Centers

15. The Academic Nursing Center: A History of Federal Support

16. The Faculty Practice Plan

17. Rural Health Centers



IV. Special Considerations


18. Technology in Primary Health Care

19. Managing Quality of Care by Measuring Performance

20. Risk Management



Appendixes


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 376 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03610-8
ISBN-10: 0-323-03610-4
Imprint: MOSBY


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