title: Advanced practice nurse entrepreneurs in a multidisciplinary surgical-assisting partnership.
abstract: CHANGES IN THE HEALTH CARE environment and reimbursement practices are creating opportunities for nurse entrepreneurs to be partners with other professional nurses and physicians. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) who want to step into an entrepreneurial role must have strong clinical expertise, specific personal characteristics, interpersonal skills, and business acumen. ESTABLISHING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY partnership for providing surgical assisting services has many benefits and presents many challenges.
authors.affiliation: RNFA, University Place, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: DeCarlo
mesh_terms: D016520:Entrepreneurship; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010317:Partnership Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States