[NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

[pattinp at verizon.net]

Congratulations, Paula, on this opportunity!!!  I know how hard you have worked to find a job like this. IMHO you are selling yourself short if you are asking for $70-75,000/year salary. You have so many skills to bring to this practice - adult Western medicine practice, your CAM skills, and phlebotomy skills are a real asset!!! You should be starting out at at least a minimum of $80-90,000/year salary!!  Don't sell yourself short; I once heard a nurse consultant tell us in a seminar that people equate your worth with the amount you charge...something to think about.

Patti Robertson (NP of VA)

>From: Paula Sumner <nurse_healer at yahoo.com>
>Date: 2007/05/12 Sat PM 04:03:04 CDT
>To: np-clinical at nurse.net
>Subject: [NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

>I know  this has been discussed ad nauseum, but i am need of some quick tips for a meeting on tuesday.  I am being invited to join a brand new integrative med clinic. I am being given the opportunity to build my own primary care (adult) practice with some features like urgent care on saturday, and maybe sports and work physicals.  It has been opened 4 wks and the pts are just trickiling in. The PA quit already 'she wasn't ready to return to work'.</DIV>  <DIV> </DIV>  <DIV>I can start with no income or bennies--that is it would be my own practice to build or</DIV>  <DIV>I can be offered some sort of base salary plus % still no bennies. overhead is $30/hr. There is a receptionist and RN. And a temp plebotomist (the doc was excited to know i could draw blood, etc).</DIV>  <DIV> </DIV>  <DIV>The doc does not know how much to pay an NP (I said $50/hr or 70-75k/yr)-he said once the clinic got busy i'd be making more than that.    i need advice on those who have gone before me.  Do you have a sample contract to share? Haveyou beenin on the start-up of a new clinic where funds are low? What did you negotiate?     Thank you, Paula
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>Paula J. Sumner RN, MSN, HTP, CHt
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