Looking for a job? New graduate or seasoned NP? You'll want to listen to Renee Dahring, APRN, FAANP, she is the NP Career Coach. 

While Renee has been active legislatively in Minnesota (they enjoy, and continue to enjoy FPA, in no small part to her contributions), her background and experience also led her to become a career coach for NPs. 

One of the issues I hear frequently is about job searches, especially for new NPs. Renee and I talk about tips that will improve an NPs ability to find their job of choice, including:

• Resume vs CV
• Complete qualifications
• Keywords
• How to craft your experience

In addition, learn about the practice environment in Minnesota. We’ll also talk about what it takes to be active in your state, even a little bit, and how that can make a big difference.

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Curious about direct primary care? Today's episode is with Dr. Maria Walker who talks about her start in this area, as well as setbacks that she has faced getting started in her own practice.

Additionally, she has generously shared resources she has used to get started on this path to practice.

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Writing a book is something on the list of many individuals. Yet, as soon as we sit down and are faced with a blank piece of paper or screen, we wonder where to start. Many are overwhelmed from the start.

Today I’m interviewing Yvonne D’Arcy, MS, ARNP, CNS, FAANP, and Deb Kiley, DNP, NP-C, APRN, FAANP  whose new book “Pain Management in Primary Care, Essential Knowledge for APRNs and PAs" was just released by Springer Publishing.

Yvonne is a respected expert, the author of numerous books on this topic, and a sought after speaker on pain management in the in-patient as well as outpatient setting. 

Deb Kiley, who we also heard from in Episode #4 also practices pain management from a more holistic point of view. 

We talk about the work that goes into writing a book. The schedule, the discipline, having a publisher, and so much more.

Make sure you take advantage of the time-limited coupon code from Springer Publishing. Head over to the show notes. 

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Juliette Blount, NP has been a passionate advocate for people of color her entire life, but it was just who she was. In this episode, we talk about 

• How she came to this topic and what spurred her to develop it further.
• What we as healthcare providers can do today and going forward.
• How planning changed her initial ideas on business.
• How her intended "side hustle" became her full-time business.
• Suggestions on how to find your own passion business.

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What do leadership, mentorship, and "doing good" have in common? 

Listen to what Dr. Cindy Cooke has to say about that in this episode of the NP Business Matters podcast. This is about going beyond our clinical practices, and being involved in our local communities, state, and national communities.

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How do you help your leadership team, board, or colleagues improve their ability to communicate? You take a concept, a proven system, and you apply it to your group. You teach, coach, and mentor. 

Today's guest, Suzanne Wertman, MSN, CNM works for her professional organization. She has found that leadership involves a lot of listening, and that self-care goes a long way to increase one's resilience and emotional intelligence.

What I love about this, is that Suzanne brought outside help to her organization from a non-nurse. She introduced them to Brene Brown and Dare to Lead. 

In our conversation, we laugh and nearly cry and you might just find yourself nodding your head and remembering times that you may have shed a tear or two yourself.

What are your aha's, thoughts, feelings as you listen to this? Can you relate?  Head over to NPBusiness.com/podcast and share your thoughts.

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Is California's AB-890 good for NPs? What does it really mean?

I had the honor of speaking with Melanie Balestra, NP, JD in California on the law signed by Gov. Newsom on September 29, 2020. According to the CANP website, it states that "AB 890 allows NPs to work without physician supervision, removing the supervisory requirement in existing law so NPs can provide the same high-quality care they do today and care more directly for patients."

But of course, there is a lot in the details, and (IMHO) not all of it is good.

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In this episode of the NP Business Matters podcast, Barbara C Phillips, NP, interviews Dr. Penni Vachon about her direct primary care (DPC) practice in South Carolina.

You'll hear many pearls of wisdom about having this type of practice, including

• Getting experience
• Doing your research
• Understanding insurance, cost
• Networking in your community
• Marketing
• Challenges
• Being the first in your community

We are sure you'll enjoy this episode as well. Please head to NPBusiness.com/podcast to get the show notes for this episode, and every episode.

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Today I’m interviewing Don Self. If you’ve been following NPBO for a while, you may be aware of an webinar I did with Don this past summer. In that webinar, a lot of eyes were opened as to the amount of money clinicians are leaving on the table because they are unclear of what they can bill for. In this interview, we’ll touch on that a bit more, but the focus today is on Telehealth, and appropriate coding to get paid for your services.

Don Self is a certified coder and consultant. He’s been teaching and consulting with clinicians, coders and others for the past 35 years and is a wealth of knowledge that he readily shares with us.

I want you to pay attention here. One of the things you’ll hear him say is “Right now, even with Covid, if you are in primary care, you should be making more money now than you were making prior to covid just by a little education”. Don provides that education in this episode fo the NP Business Matters Podcast.

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In this episode of the NP Business Matters Podcast, I speak with Amelia Roberts, RN.

She notes that business has always been in her blood and that early on she started out by selling potholders to her grandmother's friends.

But on to nursing school and still looking for business ideas and being surprised about how someone could make money in cat grooming, and how it leads to even further ideas. 

You'll even hear me giggle about cat grooming!

She encourages nurses to look at your knowledge base, both in and out of the nursing field to find their own ideas.

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