When it comes to nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives everyone has heard of the terms collaboration and supervision. In all likelihood each of these practitioners have heard employers, physicians, or others state that for them to practice they need to be "supervised by a physician."
Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses are in a peculiar position in our healthcare system. On one hand, you are expected to be a competent healthcare professional focused on clinical issues associated with patient care activities. However, you are also in a position in which you need to communicate your value as an independent ...
Certified registered nurse anesthetists ("CRNAs") provide a vast amount of anesthesia care to patients across the country. In many states, a CRNA is able to provide anesthesia care without any physician supervision or involvement of a supervising anesthesiologist. However, in many states there is a requirement that anesthesia care provided by the CRNA must be supervised by a ...
Diagnostic tests are used in healthcare to assist healthcare providers with providing services to patients but in particular in assisting with diagnosing a certain illness a patient may have. Diagnostic testing has various rules and regulations that are directly applicable to advanced practice nurses.
Productivity compensation is a primary methodology for paying certain healthcare providers, especially physicians. Advanced practice nurses, on the other hand, are typically paid on base compensation standards. This means that an advanced practice nurse is paid a flat rate amount no matter how many patients or how productive he or she may be.
Healthcare fraud can impact the largest organizations but many individual providers forget the serious impact these laws can have on their careers.
Nurse Practitioners in most states across the country regularly prescribe medications to their patients. These medications come from the many pharmaceutical companies across the country. Often, the interactions between nurse practitioners and pharmaceutical companies evolve around lunches, education, sponsors at CMEs, and even potentially speaking at events. All of these interactions though, are largely shielded …
