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Patient Marketing: It Takes More Than Credentials

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Think about it when patients come in to see you, they are inherently vulnerable. If you are a Nurse Practitioner who takes the time to listen to concerns, explains things in simple terms, and shows empathy, you will earn a patients trust far more effectively than a wall filled with degrees and certifications.

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Starting A Practice: Questions Every Nurse Practitioner Should Ask

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Many Nurse Practitioners have built successful practices on a shoestring budget. Structuring the optimal service offering to meet your patients’ needs and your practice’s goals. Creating positive patient experiences, from scheduling appointments to follow-up care, to grow the practice.

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Nurse Practitioner Week recognizes easier access for primary care

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse practitioners are having a moment, and it’s worth paying attention to how they can benefit you and your family. As demand for medical care increased and doctors faced capacity challenges, more programs emerged across the United States to help meet these growing needs.

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Nurse practitioner authority approved in Senate committee

Health Leaders | Nursing

A panel of Pennsylvania Senate lawmakers approved a bill that gives more care authority to nurse practitioners.

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Specialties lure nurse practitioners from primary care

Health Leaders | Nursing

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for.

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Nurse practitioners advocate for lifting practice restrictions

Health Leaders | Nursing

Lawmakers don’t often see nurses lobbying in the Capitol, but they’ve had a weekly presence in the building this session as they lobby for independent practice for advanced practice nurses, or APRNs.

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The doctor or nurse practitioner will see you. Does it matter?

Health Leaders | Nursing

and an increase in the number of nurse practitioners with doctorates, nursing groups are pushing to expand what certain nurses can do without doctors’ supervision. Amid a critical shortage of physicians throughout the U.S.