By Barbara C Phillips, NP, FAANP
The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.
The majority of clinicians - nurse practitioners and physician assistants are not business owners, but employees. However, even though we focus on business here, all professionals are business and need to understand that.
On this episode of the NPBusiness Show & Podcast, I speak with Renee Dahring, NP and current president of the Minnesota APRN Coalition. She is also the NP behind the career blog at Advance for NPs and PAs and is known as the NPCareer Coach.
While we, of course, spoke about business and related it to job hunting, Renee was also able to give us ideas how to prepare and approach an interview regardless if you are a NEW nurse practitioner or a seasoned one.
Her biggest tips IMHO after having interviewed plenty of candidates are toward the end when she talks about the three biggest faux pas that nurse practitioner job candidates make. You'll want to take a listen for that.
Enjoy the show, and happy job hunting!
Podcasting Again! SAGEClinician is now the NPBusiness Show!
Welcome to the new NPBusiness Show and podcast. You might remember this show as the SAGEClinician podcast. In this episode you'll hear:
Goals with this new format is to keep the sessions shorter and more concise (we are all busy!), and most of all, to find a way to help ensure that #NoNPLeftBehind.
So what about SAGEClinician. For the time being, the website and the first 24 episodes are still available. Eventually, I'll move them here to this site. They are not going to disappear.
Dr. Miner is a women's healthcare provider and a holistic NP working in New York State. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Miner is broadcasting the "HEALth Practitioner Podcast" and publishes on her website,"LifeStyleWellnessNetwork.com".
Having done previous solo podcasts on a variety of health topics, her current podcast the "HEALth Practitioner Podcast" focuses on different healing modalities accessible to clinicians and consumers alike.The HEALth in her podcast stands for HEAL: Holistic, Engaged, Authentic, Leaders...
The show introduces practitioners utilizing various modalities and discusses how clinicians and patients can integrate them into their communities. You can find the podcast at www.lifestylewellness.com.
Dr. Minor also owns her integrated health website, lifestylewellnessnetwork.com. Here she works with consumers, clinicians and business owners who want to improve their health and lifestyle.
Her website provides information on holistic health, touch healing, acupuncture, auricular acupuncture and general health information. She also provides access to a dispensary, where she can prescribe supplements for clients she works with in a coaching capacity.
Dr. Minor points out that many healthcare institutions today have some form of holistic health integrated in their patient care. Many utilize therapies such as essential oils, Bach flower therapy, homeopathy, aroma therapy and healing touch therapy.
Also, many educational institutions today offer training programs on integrative healthcare and integrative practices.
Dr. Minor herself utilizes Reiki (and she is a Reiki master teacher), essential oils, auricular acupuncture and other modalities in her work. She believes that you become more integrative when you integrate the modality into your service and practice it yourself.
Enjoy!
HEALth Practitioner Podcast - www.lifestylewellness.com
Life Style Wellness Network - www.LifeStyleWellnessNetwork.com
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/LWEnterprise
Google+: www.google.com/+JohnettaMiner
Brittney is known as the “Nerdy Nurse” and was able to acquire the rights to exclusively use that name by obtaining the trademark. Trademarks are important. They protect a business by preventing others from using the same name, avoiding potential confusion in the minds of consumers.
It all began for Brittney, when she started blogging about her experiences at work and some of the struggles she had with nursing. Blogging helped her deal with negative experiences, all while helping other nurses by sharing information and resources with them. You will find resources on her blog TheNerdyNurse.com, providing information on lateral violence, harassment in the workplace and various legal topics related to it.
Brittany’s clinical background includes nursing in med-surg and until just recently as an informatics nurse. Working in informatics allowed her to combine her clinical knowledge with her love for technology, supporting direct care nurses and other providers taking care of their patients.
Brittney is convinced that nurses and providers alike, when properly trained and well versed in using EMRs and other tools, will be able to achieve better outcomes by eliminating documentation errors, all while avoiding duplication of effort.
Today, Brittney works as an online community manager for a social collaboration platform for healthcare, called “Next Wave Connect”. As a community manager Brittany writes articles, shares content and engages members to actively participate in the community.
The goal of “Next Wave Connect” is to provide a space for all types of healthcare providers to come together and collectively work on solving problems.
When it comes to social media, proper sharing of information is of particular importance for healthcare providers. To stay in compliance and to protect the rights of the individual no PHI data should ever be shared on any social network, ever!
Members of “Next Wave Connect” collaborate on various issues including ICD 10, Ebola, Clinical Integration, ACOs, Patient Engagement Strategies, just to name a few. Members also have the ability to form private groups for discussion.
Brittney invites you to become part of Next Wave Connect!
Simply go to NextWaveConnect.com, create an account, connect to communities and follow the topics that are of interest to you. Alternatively, you can also start a new discussion.
But there is more to Brittney!
Through her book, The Nerdy Nurse’s Guide to Technology, Brittany encourages nurses to confidently embrace technology. The book covers a wide range of topics ranging from Google tools, EMRs, to smart phones, tablets, data security and much, much more.
Just before concluding the interview, here are 3 words of wisdom from Brittney with respect to social media.
Brittney Wilson, RN, BSN, also known as The Nerdy Nurse, is a Clinical Informatics Nurse practicing in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
In her day job she gets to do what she loves every day: Combine technology and healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She can best be described as a patient, nurse and technology advocate, and has a passion for using technology to innovate, improve and simplify lives, especially in healthcare.
Brittney is the author of The Nerdy Nurse’s Guide to Technology. She is a social media influencer and blogs about nursing, technology, healthcare, parenting and various lifestyle topics at thenerdynurse.com and various social media outlets as listed below.
On this episode of SAGEClinician Samantha and I talk about professional burnout and steps we can take to prevent and recover from it.
We also talk about travel, self care. Samantha talks about her year of heart cleansing and what it means.
She shares with us two exercises that can be done in just minutes per day to reduce your stress (and one of them you can do in the exam room with patients), and help you get back on track.
In addition to mindfulness and travel, Samantha discusses languages and discusses some easy ways to learning various languages (she is multi-lingual). I should have known this when I took French in the 7th grade...as you'll be able to hear, I did not retain much!
And of course we talk about The Burnout Recovery Guide!
Samantha Alvarez, MS, FNP graduated from Northern Arizona University (BSN) in 2005 and Oregon Health and Science University (MS) in 2009. She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, as well as the Mindfulness Association.
She has flirted with burnout almost daily during my years of experience as a family practice NP since 2009. She has maintained a daily mindfulness practice for over 11 years, and it has been crucial in maintaining balance in my life and practice. She has been active in attending over one hundred conferences, seminars and workshops relating to meditation, mindfulness and other self-healing practices.
Outside of her NP and mindfulness practices, she loves to sing, laugh, travel and learn new things, especially languages (Speaking three and a half: English, Spanish, Portuguese and enough Japanese to get herself in
Her new book, The Burnout Recovery Guide, is designed to help you feel better in five minutes per day.
Blog: HealthyNP
Blog: MindfulPolyglot
Book: The Burnout Recovery Guide
Twitter: @HealthyNP
GooglePlus: HealthyNP
Facebook: HealthyNP
On this episode of SAGEClinician, I talk about Nurse Practitioners, and share a few soundbites I recorded at the AANP Speciality and Leadership Conference held last month in Naples Florida.
Nurse Practitioner shave been around for close to 50 years. All of us are nurses, most all of us have extensive experience as nurses before we return to school for additional education and training. Initially, we took certificate courses that may last a year, but formally years now, the minimum education has been a masters degree. There is now a new mandate for the doctoral level of education to be entry into practice and many NPs have returned to school to obtain the Doctor of Nurse Practice.
Currently there are approx 192K Nurse Practitioners practicing in the US. This number continues to grow as programs are graduating students all the time. Nurse Practitioner are not just in the US, but there is a growing movement to utilize NPs in many countries around the world.
Briefly, NPs provide care to patients of all ages from all walks of life and a variety of settings, which I’ll talk about in a moment. We assess our patients, order and interpret diagnostic tests, make diagnosis and initial and manage treatment plans including prescribing medication and performing procedures. I believe one of the most important things we do for our patients is to really listen to what they are say, and what they are showing us. We involved patients in their care and it shows.
Nurse practitioners work in all areas of healthcare. Our scope of practice varies with the type of nurse practitioner we are. For example: psychiatric NPs, adult-hero NP, acute-care, women’s health care, family practice, and pediatrics. We are in acute care environments hospitals, critical care units, trauma, surgery, etc) as well as outpatient settings. We are in college health, primary care practice, speciality care practices, long term care and the home. Many of us are employed by hospitals, large heatlhcare organizations, smaller practice, universities and more. Many of now have our own practices.
At the time of this recording Nov 2014, we have full practice authority in 19 states plus the dis of columbia. What that means is that we can practice without physician involvement in our practice. That means I can write assess, diagnosis and treat my patients, including writing prescriptions without having to involve a physician. Many states require formal collaborative agreements and/or supervision of practice.
But let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I know this is never far from anyones mind.
Even though many of us talk about full practice authority and independent practice, I believe I am safe to say that no one practices in isolation. In fact, I don’t believe there is a healthcare provider who is alive and practice, who practices in a silo, practices completely independently of other providers. We all call our colleagues when we need a patient looked at, we need a second opinion or we need that speciality consult. All of us put our patients first. That’s why we are there. Collaboration is built in to practice. There is no need to have an additional barrier that limits a persons access to healthcare. Period.
Okay, I’m stepping down off my soapbox now. But before we listen to the sound bites,I just want to say if you need more information about Nurse Practitioner practice, in far more detail that I’ve given you here, visit the American Association of Nurse Practitioners website . You’ll find links to studies, current practice acts in the different states and also sorts of policy and legislative information.
Thank you to the following NPs for agreeing to be recorded and published on the SAGEClinician Podcast!
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioner Business Blog
On this episode of SAGEClinician I have the privilege of speaking with Reeger Cortell, FNP. She is likely one of the very first NPs to podcast. Her topic is also her area of clinical expertise...weight loss surgery. On the podcast, she not only talks about issues of weight loss, but also the transformation that takes place for all her patients. Indeed podcasting itself has plenty of life lessons.
During the podcast, Reeger referenced a blog post she wrote, that is appropriate for all of us in our lives:
Personally...I love all of them, but how about you, which of these lessons is your favorite?
Reeger Cortell, is the podcaster behind the WeightLossSurgeryPodcast. She is a FNP and works in Bariatric surgery in Southern Oregon. I love how she describes herself:
Recovering public school and then art school student, world travel and restless nomad turned BSN RN (after a voice told me to “go to nursing school") wife to Adam and second mom to one daughter then first mom to another daughter who then became a WOCN, then an MSN/FNP and RNFA and diligent student of ALL things bariatric surgical care who then launched a podcast to offer a more creative way to care for bariatric patients while casting a wider net for receives that care (who is really simply interested in the transformative process of how a person makes the whole body/spirit leap into claiming their WHOLE HEARTED LIFE no matter how they define it).
On a daily basis, I hear from nurse practitioner students on social media, in email and private messages who are desperate for a preceptor. Often they have been turned down multiple times and are at their wits end.
The hardest part of all this is that NP students are unable to complete their requirements and will often have to delay graduation or even drop out of their programs. In healthcare today, we need more providers, not less.
Fortunately someone has created a way that NP students, preceptors and universities can come together. In the end everyone wins.
On this episode of SAGEClinician I talk with Dino Soriano who is the founder of ClinicalMatchMe which was developed to meet the needs of these students, as well as the NPs who want to precept them.
Listen in as we talk about this sometime "controversial" issue!
Dino is the founder and CEO of ClinicalMatchMe which was started out of his own frustration and need as a NP Student. His background includes ER and trauma nursing prior to pursuing his FNP. He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program. He holds degrees in healthcare administration, nursing leadership and management and as an FNP.
On this episode of SAGEClinician I am talking with Nurse Practitioner Barb Dehn. We talk about writing, publishing and just letting the world know about the expertise we all have. And we get to talk about her new book The Hot Guide to a Cool Sexy Menopause.
She gives us three tips on writing, suggests ways to get motivated and how to improve our writing. Get motivated to start sharing your knowledge and expertise today.
Barbara Dehn is a practicing Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and a television health expert, who’s known as Nurse Barb. She is passionate about health education, whether it’s 1 on 1 with a patient, in a lecture hall at Stanford or with millions of people watching on television.
In addition to national appearances on CNN, NBC , CBS and ABC, Barb is the award winning author of the Personal Guides to Health used by over 4.5 million women in the US. She is also active in social media, contributing content to The Huffington Post, EmpowHer, her own blog, Nurse Barb’s Daily Dose and The Patch and then amplifies her reach through her 18,000 twitter followers.
Nurse Barb earned a masters degree from UCSF and a BS from Boston College. She is certified by the North American Menopause Society and is a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Barb lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.
On this episode of SAGEClinician I talk with Renee Thompson who is an expert on nurse bullying. Listen in as we discuss:
The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.