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Barbara C. Phillips - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Barbara C. Phillips, NP is the founder of NP Business™ and Nurse Practitioner Business Owner™ and works with NPs to get started and grow their own business.
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- Attracting New Clients to Your Business
[Business:Marketing] Most of us don't have thousands of dollars just sitting around to use for marketing. But there are several ways in which you can find those first few clients, spending little to no money.
- Taking Care of the Provider & The Business Owner
[Business] Many of us are at work all day, taking care of everyone and everything else. Many business owners are also hard at work all evening and each weekend getting caught up on billing, policies & procedures, marketing or just finishing the day's paperwork.
- Want to Improve? Ask Your Clients
[Business:Customer-Service] If you're in business, chances are you looking for ways to improve your service, as well as market your business. One of the best marketing tools available is word-of-mouth. Truly nothing else beats it. We are all looking for proof from someone else.
- Business Disaster Planning
[Business:Continuity-Disaster-Recovery] One can hardly turn on the news today with hearing something about some natural disaster. In recent weeks it's been about earthquakes, tornadoes, floods and wild fire. And of course, the Northern Hemisphere Hurricane Season is upon us.
- Equipment & Supplies
[Business] Supplies are a necessary cost of doing business and can affect your bottom line. Here are some tips to help you keep cost under control.
- Automation For Survival
[Business] Regardless of the type of business or practice you are running, you're busy. It's important to automate as much of your processes as possible. Here are just two examples...
- Practice Owners Need to Know the Cost-Per-Patient
[Business:Customer-Service] Nurse Practitioner business owners need to understand the cost of doing business, especially in terms of reimbursement in order to assess the viability of their practice. One of those metrics is determining what it cost the practice to see each patient.
- Is a Nurse Practitioner Owned Practice Right For You?
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Many Nurse Practitioners dream of owning their own practice. However, not everyone is cut out to be a practice owner. Here are some questions for you to think about before you make the leap.
- Choosing Your Business and Practice Name
[Business:Branding] Choosing a proper name can make a BIG difference in the success of your new business and practice. Business names that are easily remembered have a better chance of getting word of mouth referrals and customer recognition than names that everyone forgets without fail.
- Marketing Your Health Care Practice
[Business:Marketing] New practice? Need patients? Here are the strategies used by one Nurse Practitioner when she opened her office.
- Taking Care of Yourself
[Womens-Interests] Women are expert caregivers, all have been, and most likely we always will be. However, in order to continue, we must learn to care for self. Here’s a few ideas.
- Menopause: Moods, Hot flashes and Dryness – Oh My!
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Deciding how to “treat” something as natural as menopause has left women confused. Let’s see if this can help.
- Your Mammogram Is Abnormal – What Now?
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] You receive a phone call telling you your mammogram is abnormal. What now?
- Colds and Flu - Do You Know the Difference?
[Health-and-Fitness] This time of year, the phone rings constantly with people who have "the flu". Except…they don’t. Do you know the difference between having a cold and having the flu?
- Smoking? It's Time to Quit!
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] Most smokers know they need to quit smoking. Some are still looking for another reason why. Here are just 5 immediate and long term reasons to stop smoking today.
- Incontinence: A Taboo Subject
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Nothing slashes a woman’s confidence and self esteem more than this. It’s time to take it out of the closet, discuss it, and find out what you can do.
- Care and Feeding of your Brain
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] One of the most common concerns that I’ve heard from women is the fear that we are loosing our minds, especially as we approach menopause. What are the concerns and what can we do to protect our brains?
- Menopausal Facts: What Will I Experience?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Millions of Baby Boomer Women are entering this time of their lives where menopause becomes a reality. With all the attention it is getting, many women remain confused over what to expect. This article will help women sort through the confusion and answer the question “What can I expect?”
- Growing into Fifty
[Womens-Interests] Are you one of the many women this year who are suddenly going to be asking themselves, "Fifty years old? When did that happen?"
- Lessons from the Dying
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] What can we learn from those who are dying? Lots!
- Facial Hair in Women - What Can You Do About It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Women, especially at midlife find they have new facial hair growth. Just what is a woman to do?
- Midlife Women, What They Really Want
[Womens-Interests] Don’t you want to know what is important to midlife women, what makes them tick? Do you know how they want to live the rest of their lives? It’s not about the gray hair, a few wrinkles or even hitting the big 5-0.
- Living Wills - 10 Most Common Questions
[Legal:Living-Will] Today, more than ever, you need a Living Will. Discover the 10 most common questions you need answered so you too can have peace of mind.
- Osteoporosis - What can I do to Prevent it?
[Health-and-Fitness] Osteoporosis is a silent disease. You normally don't know it until something like a fracture occurs. In reality, your bones have been loosing strength for years.
- Menopause, Just What Is It?
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Just what is menopause? How does it affect you? What can you do about it?
- What is an Advanced Health Care Directive and Why Do I Need One?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Advanced health care directives are written instructions that communicate your wishes regarding care and treatment should you no longer be able to make your own health care decisions. Some directives are broken down into two parts - a Living Will and a Health Care Power of Attorney (HCPOA). The exact language and type of document will vary depending upon the laws in your location.
Basically a Living Will allows certain treatments to be withheld or withdrawn if using them will only prolong your dying process; or if you are unconscious (and in a vegetative state) and there is no hope for recovery. An example of treatment may include feeding tubes or resuscitation if you heart stops working.
- Improve Your Sleep Now!
[Health-and-Fitness:Sleep-Snoring] Sleep disturbance or insomnia is not uncommon in women starting at midlife. While this may be due to a physical concern, usually it's not. Let's discuss some things you can do NOW to improve your sleep.
- Celebrating You: 27 Tips for Vibrant and Successful Living
[Womens-Interests] Many women have not learned the importance of celebrating and honoring themselves. Here are 27 tips to start you on your journey.
- Older Women & HIV
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] HIV infections are on the rise. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of Americans over 50 who are infected with HIV have grown over 5 times (16,300 people in 1995, to 90,600 in 2003). While seniors represent about 14% of people with HIV, senior women represent 18%. The numbers of women with infections are even higher for American women of color, and come in at a staggering 47% when looking at world HIV infection rates. That means that just under half of all HIV infections are found in women worldwide.
The numbers of older women becoming infected is of growing concern. Learn how you can protect yourself...
- 10 Tips for Responsible Medication Use
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Many people today take multiple medications, vitamins and supplements. Do you know how to use them safely?
- Are You Afraid of Growing Older?
[Womens-Interests] Some women are fearful of aging, and the perceived loss it brings. The truth is, nothing could be further from the truth.
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