Having a clear job description for your employees is really important. Whether it is your receptionists, medical assistants, birth assistants, midwife, or marketers, they all need to have clear expectations from day one of what their purpose with your midwife business is. Knowing hours considered full or part-time, skills and licenses needed to complete job, …
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Patients survey keeping track of outcome is just as important as monitoring if your clients are truly happy with your care. Many midwives just assuming everyone is happy with the superb service your midwife business is giving. There may be some things to improve on with customer care and patient processes that can really help your customer …
Being part of a home birth community, it is really important for a midwife to have peer reviews of care. When there is solo practices “doing their own thing,” keeping up with evidence based care and colleague evaluations are very important. Being able to have regular meetings with other midwives in your community helps boost …
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When a midwife starts out practicing, last thing she is thinking about is retiring. Many midwives want to care for families until her back doesn’t allow her to bend for catching a baby anymore. Thinking in advance about how your midwifery practice will close, merge with another practice, or transition to another newer midwife is really importance …
When we decide to become midwives, few programs offer any business, accounting, or tax courses as part of their curriculum. Midwives go to school to care for women during pregnancy, not run a business. Many midwives learn from business mistakes while running things versus taking classes before opening own business. I would have saved so much time, …
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As midwives, we are always balancing the notion that birth is a medical procedure versus being natural. In today’s society, birth is considered a skilled “procedure” that needs a trained professional present. If that profession (whether being a Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, or Direct Entry Midwife), there is still needed …
Always wondering about ways to improve your midwifery business cash flow, but don’t want to take on more clients or increase the price for your services? Buying in bulk is a great way to save money in the long run. It will cost you more initially. With items that are used regularly or don’t expire …
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Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one’s goal(s). Although the term first appeared in a 1964 paper …
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When starting a midwifery practice, one of the big decisions to make is what setting to deliver in. Do I want to offer home births, birth center deliveries, or hospital births? Do I want to offer a couple setting options? Today I will focus on home versus birth center practice. I have personally done a …
When driving into the office, have you thought about what your hair, clothes, demeanor, and smile say about you? Are you dressed like you are going to a business meeting, hippy retreat, or slumber party at a friend’s house? Your business image comes from your marketing presence, personal presence, and office environment. There are many …
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