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Many practitioners exhibits
an understandable reticence to enter private practice, because of
the overwhelming number of information management and bureaucratic
hurdles which must be overcome to establish and maintain the practice.
The Team Chart Concept
streamlines the process of establishing a new practice, allowing
for the rapid development of plans of care, and documentation of
care with the very low initial overhead. One tremendous advantage
of the new practice start-up is not having to deal with old, inefficient
medical record documentation systems. Free from this burden,
the enthusiastic nurse practitioner can be up and running, with
complete information control, very quickly. Typically, this
process takes less than two weeks, eliminating one major practice
headache while enhancing the initial impression given by the public
about the new practice.
The complexity of health-care
issues managed by nurse practitioner will only increase as the patient
population in the United States ages. The increasing demands
on limited resources will require a system that can demonstrate
the practitioners efficiency and quality of care; it will no longer
be adequate to write into a chart somewhere that a certain patient
has been seen in the office. The relationship of that office
visit, with its associated diagnoses and procedures and outcomes,
and all the related billing and financial information, will be part
of the medical record of the future. It should be the standard
medical record of the present. The Team
Chart Concept makes it so.
Starting now with the Team
Chart Concept allows the concerned practitioner
to address these points before they become significant burdens to
the practice. The Team Chart
Concept actually changes the relationship between
practitioner and practice, properly placing the practitioner in
charge of all aspects of their practice. It is no longer necessary
for the practitioner to feel burdened by their practice, and being
in control of the practice enhances practitioner effectiveness enormously.
If the nurse practitioner chooses to operate
in collaboration with other practitioners, the Team
Chart Concept tremendously enhances the ability
of documentation to be reviewed by all concerned appropriate parties.
Office managers in this environment will certainly appreciate the
Team Chart Concept
and its flexibility, allowing fee schedules to be designed regarding
each payor and their relationship with the various types of practitioners.
Compensation for services can be more directly addressed
when these relationships are reviewed; reports on this information
are vital to the financial planning of any collaborative effort.
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Nurse Practioners
