Stay ConnectedNo-Nonsense Business Advice for Entrepreneurial NPs
The Elite NP Show is a podcast for go-getter NPs who are ready to break free from traditional roles and create thriving businesses. Listen to 1:1 interviews with entrepreneurial NPs who are establishing and growing their practices, and apply these valuable insights to your own professional journey.
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Today we'll be talking to Mandy, who is an Adult Nurse Practitioner, she's currently working full-time at a med spa under a plastic surgeon, and she's looking to open up her own Aesthetics Practice where she'll focus on a variety of services. She's needing assistance with securing collaborators, starting her own practice, and choosing between 2 locations.
In this episode we talk about the necessary steps to get out of your head and just take action, most of the decisions of your business should be based on numbers and not emotion, stand back, run the numbers, and look at it from an objective point of view, that way you'll make smarter business decisions.
Today we'll be talking to Amanda who is a Family Nurse Practitioner, she's currently self-employed working on her practice that she's had for the past 16 years, recently she started a Med Spa as well that's a DBA under her Family Practice. She's needing assistance transitioning her traditional family practice to a direct care primary practice.
In this episode, we touch on a few very important topics from staying on top of your practice finances even if you have a manager to how running a cash practice beats insurance every single time.
In our first double interview, we talked to Jessica and Laura, a couple of psychiatric NP friends who just partnered to open a Mental Health business together that is doing ok. They are needing help on how to grow their business, marketing and how to integrate additional services into their
practice.
In this episode we talk about how important it is for you to be able to pivot, getting married to an idea or service that is not working will only damage your business, you have to make the necessary changes for your practice to succeed.
Today we'll be talking to April who is a Family NP, currently, she's working part-time at an OBGYN office while she works on her telemedicine women's health and HRT that she started about a year ago.
April is needing assistance with marketing, streamlining the services she provides, and optimizing her website to increase her patient volume.
In our conversation we talk about how sometimes it takes a little time to gain momentum in your business, you have all the pieces but they don't quite fit together yet, you need to identify the issues and make the necessary adjustments to get things going.
In today's episode, we'll be talking to Rachel, who is a Family NP who currently works full-time as the manager of a Telemedicine company that focuses on managing care. She started a DPC practice about ten months ago that has slowly turned into more of a weight loss clinic. Rachel is needing help with setting boundaries with her patients, managing her time better, managing her practice, and most importantly how to decide when it's the right time to leave her full-time job.
In this episode we talk about a topic we haven't touched before on the show, worrying about stuff that has not yet happened or that may not even happen at all will just preventing from going forward, a lot of stuff is out of your control but even if it happens you have the knowledge and skill to just pivot and keep going forward. Don't let things out of your control stop you from taking action!
Today we'll be talking to Pam who is a Family NP, she's currently doing part-time wound care while working on her aesthetics practice that she just started. Pam is needing assistance with marketing, streamlining her business, and the best way to integrate weight loss services while improving the practice's finances.
In this episode, we talk about how it sometimes takes some using to have a business, handling the financials and client interaction can seem like a daunting task when you're starting out, it takes time to get used to being an entrepreneur. You just have to be patient and get used to being a business owner.
Today we'll be talking to Kate who is a Family NP, she's currently working at a bariatric medicine practice where she has been for 15 years. She recently started her own weight loss telemedicine practice, she's needing help with marketing, liability insurance, and how to operate and grow her practice.
We come to the conclusion that if you wait to have a perfect plan to start you'll never do it, you just have to get started and figure it out on the way. With a telemed practice staying local can work great and you can find success in one state or one area, don't complicate things at the very beginning of your practice's life.
Today we'll be talking to Rachel who is a Family Nurse Practitioner, she's currently operating her own practice where she focuses on aesthetics, IV infusion, and weight loss. She's needing assistance with structuring her DBAs and her businesses, how to prioritize tasks on her business, and how to utilize a part-time NP better.
In this episode, we talk about the importance of relying on your employees to free up some of your own time, but also, we touch on how small towns can be a gold mine where you have no competition and a big client volume, sometimes you just need to look out for these places.
Today we'll be talking to Alia who is a Family Nurse Practitioner, currently, she's rounding in nursing homes providing neurological services, she's in the process of starting her own Men's Health clinic where she will focus on HRT, weight loss, and fertility management, she's needing help with how to price her services, overcoming analysis paralysis and focusing her attention on the most vital parts of the business creation process.
In our conversation we talked about how useful taking concrete steps is towards starting your practice, signing the lease will definitely give you that push to just get started and overcome analysis paralysis, it'll force you into action and just get started, don't get paralyzed by fear.
Today we'll be talking to Shawn who is a Family Nurse Practitioner, she's currently working PRN in an emergency room but she mostly operates her own concierge Practice where she focuses on basic primary care, sick visits, physicals, basic occupational care, and weight loss. She's needing assistance finding her niche as she's providing a variety of services.
In this episode we talk about the importance of understanding what your patients want, sometimes when you provide many services there'll be one or two of them that are way more successful than the rest, so it is sometimes a good idea to drop some of the other stuff you do and streamline your practice's services on those products that are selling really well. Don't be afraid to rebrand!!
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