How to Navigate Scheduling Issues for Nurse Practitioners

When I became a new nurse practitioner, I was so focused on learning the clinical pieces that it never occurred to me to learn more about the business of primary care.
Once I was on the job, I realized how crucial it is to understand those pieces and how I fit as a clinician in the primary care office ecosystem.
This is particularly relevant when it comes to scheduling patients. It seems like a minor thing, but it causes a lot of nurse practitioners painful headaches, and can be tricky to both understand the problems and navigate out of them unless you understand the full picture of how it fits into the day-to-day running of the practice.
In this week’s video, I’m building off of last week’s video where I talked about the business foundations of primary care. I cover:
✅ The foundational pieces to understand when it comes to scheduling patients
✅ The way that it can look ideally, and the less-than-ideal “real world” way it can look
✅ Examples of issues new nurse practitioners face, and ways to navigate out of them
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[@NurseLiz]

Also a video on annual Medicare physicals one day would be 🙌🏻

[@RealWorldNP]

Noted!

[@NurseLiz]

This was such a good video Liz! I love the limit setting and setting up expectations. Absolutely something I need to set up in a new job

[@RealWorldNP]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jegreen4227]

Love your videos! They are informative and very relevant to people like me who are new NPs. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge. This information no doubt will have a big positive impact once I start practicing!! I hope I can watch most of them!

[@RealWorldNP]

I am so glad they are helpful!! Thank you!

[@florr756]

Thank you. After listening and watching this I feel so supported girl. Thank you so much 😎🙏💖

[@RealWorldNP]

You are so welcome!

[@laruewho]

Thank you for your videos. Do you have a video on annual Medicare visits. I know you said it’s a long visit but I get that in a 15 minute time slot.

[@RealWorldNP]

Not yet! That's a great topic idea. I would definitely have a conversation with your supervisor about that, if that's the standard throughout the whole practice. Definitely also connect about it with your colleagues as well, I don't think that's right to make it that short. Hopefully they can help you understand why it's only in a 15 minute slot, if there's a rationale behind it, and if there are any other resources they can recommend to make it easier (i.e. the MAs at the clinic do a certain part of the data collection, etc).

[@jasmineg2503]

Very helpful

[@RealWorldNP]

Glad it was helpful to you!