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From Negotiating Your First Job Through Owning a Practice To order this title, and for more information, click here
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
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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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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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