01/24/2024
Welcome and thank you for joining us. The collaborative coalition for nurse practitioner/MD/DO is born out of necessity. In many cases, the issue of collaboration is not necessitated by oversight. In at least 13 states in our nation, nurse practitioners have full practice, authority and care for patients day and day meeting and exceeding benchmarking and patient outcomes. Often we experience lobbying against the furthering of full practice authority not because of lack of experience, but because of loss of monetary gain. As evidenced by the photo in this post, the current guidelines and lack of capping of fees without corporate backing It is very difficult for a start up practice to afford such a collaboration. In some states, nurse practitioners are required to have that only one collaborating agreement but two. Nurse practitioners are professional experienced nurses with an advanced practice degree and collaborate as needed like many physicians do during their day today caring of patients. In some states, however there is still laws in place preventing full practice authority for nurse practitioners. Practitioners in many cases do not pursue entrepreneurship because of the archaic statutes that prevent them from doing so without expensive collaborating agreements that are costing upwards of $500-$1300 a month or more depending on specialty. there are many patients that would benefit from the addition of new practices as well as many nurse practitioners, who have the experience, knowledge, and devotion to patients to open their doors if these constraints were not preventing them.
There is a tremendous shortage in primary care providers in this country, which is evident by the continued overcrowding of urgent cares and emergency departments disproportionate with acuity.
This group will bring together, like-minded nurse practitioner entrepreneurs with physicians, such as medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy to form an alliance of sorts. Our goal and aim is to enable nurse practitioners, a place to seek a collaborating physician for a a specified time period donated or reduced cost collaboration. This will also allow physicians who support nurse practitioners, and would like to assist in this way while donating their time and expertise. If you or someone you know are interested in either assisting a nurse practitioner with a short term contract to help get them started or are a nurse practitioner, seeking reduced cost or donated time from a collaborating physician in your state. Please reach out via email with your information, including résumé, contact information and terms requested. I hope this group will allow us to help one another in our combined goal of caring for people for the greater good. 
