[NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

Sat May 12 21:00:04 PDT 2007

The local NPs make @ 70k. The retail clinic will only pay $40/hr (I have been offered work with a new retail clinic).  The doc doesn't know what to offer-my impression is he wants me to walk in and be an independent practitioner-but I don't have enough money saved up to do this. i wondered about a business loan.  I have to be assoc with an MD in this state, and he said he would support my practice.  There are other MDs who are more integrative consultants.  There will be a part-time primary MD besides the the doc-owner who approached me.  The doc-owner does not want to focus on primary care but on headaches (along with a neurologist) and on research/academics.

  This is the link to the clinic, if you are interested: http://www.chapelhilldoctors.com/
  Apparently, the wife set this up and he will pay her rent and pay the bank for loans. 

  Anyways this is a great opportunity, and think I should at least try it. It'd be easer as an employee, but I also want to paid fairly. There is so much to consider.  I ave download a bunch of info-i just need to read and process it. Most of the info is for negotiating a salary as an employee-I need something as an idependent contractor.

  Thanks all, 
  Paula

Dena <galdena at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Once cannot go with a set figure! You have to consider what other NPs in
your area are making. I'd be selling myself way short at $80-90K in my area
but would probably be laughed at and thrown out on my rear if I asked for
that in certain rural areas I've worked in. Know what others are making and
always ask a bit more than that. Also you need to keep in mind it's a new
practice, patients may be very few and far between at first so the employer
may not be so enthusiastic over the idea of shelling out a lot of money at
first. I'd go with a reasonable lower figure at first with salary
evaluations every 6 months for the first 2 years as the practice grows. Past
studies have shown that it takes about 2 years for a new practice to start
making any profit-- right?
Dena Galler

-----Original Message-----
From: np-clinical-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:np-clinical-bounces at nurse.net]
On Behalf Of pattinp at verizon.net
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:25 PM
To: NP Clinical
Subject: Re: [NP-Clinical] contracts and negotiating for new clinic

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 
>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 knowÂ  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.Â  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'.  
  Â 
  I can start with no income or
bennies--that is it would be my own practice to build or
  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).
  Â 
  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. Â  i need advice on
those who have go!
ne before me.Â  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?
Â  Thank you, Paula
>
>Paula J. Sumner RN, MSN, HTP, CHt
>Healing Touch, Hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki-2
>3500 Westgate Dr., Suite 504-G
>Durham, NC 27707 (now Carborro too.)
>919-490-4656, 8#
>
>http://paulajsumner.byregion.net Referral ID#10102918
>
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Healing Touch, Hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Reiki-2
3500 Westgate Dr., Suite 504-G
Durham, NC 27707  (now Carborro too.)
919-490-4656, 8#

http://paulajsumner.byregion.net  Referral ID#10102918

http://www.justanswer.com/home.asp?r=HolisticNurse&bn=2

http://www.letstalkcounseling.com/sites/paulasumner

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