When starting a business or continuing to run one after years in practice, it is really important to have a reserve or “rainy day fund” for the ups and downs of business revenue. There are always unexpected costs or delays in insurance processes that can affect the stress of owner and team if money isn’t …
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Meditation is a method or technique to quieten the mind and train it to induce a state of consciousness. Meditation can either be done to avail some or the other benefit like reducing stress, depression, anxiety, etc., or can be done without any purpose. There are many ways of doing meditation, but one thing that …
Making sure a midwife is getting paid for her services is vital to a successful business. Whether you are paid cash or insurance payments, having good written policies to improve communication among staff and clients will create strength to your billing processes. Make sure an attorney looks over your financial contracts before implementing them into …
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Midwives need to have medication supplies available for safety during birth like pitocin, cytotec, and oxygen for newborn resuscitation. Each state is different depending on your training and certification how medications can be ordered and used. For example in Michigan, CNMs can independently prescribe medications without a physician involvement. For controlled substances, DEA number is …
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With a midwife business, it is essential to have a minimum of a collaboration with an Obstetrician. Many states require a written collaboration or the term supervisory is used instead. In those states where it is mandatory, a midwife can legally practice without that agreement in place. For professionalism and practice safety improvement processes, I …
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Being a midwife, we want to give phenomenal care and stand out from the competition. We want our services to be top on everyone’s search and have extensive waiting lists of families want to be part of our care. Your midwife business can be that successful with the proper planning and additional of little choices …
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I have seen hundreds of midwife websites. Some are very inviting, impressive, and professional. MANY are down right sad. Most clients are going to find you through referrals (word of mouth) or website searching for you. Do you want your first impression to show scattered, poor quality flow and pictures? When I see some of …
When starting out or even improving your supply inventory, there is lots to think about. During the initial planning, I broke up my practice into different section of required inventory to function efficiently. I needed office supplies, prenatal visit supplies, birth center supplies, home birth supplies, and administration supplies. There was specific inventory listed that …
Being an business owner means that you’ll often blaze your own trail: No career guides, counselors or maps will guide you from one step to the next: You’ll have to make it up as you go. Midwives are great are going into uncharted territory and business ownership is another one of those chapters to tackle. …
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All midwives need to think about CLIA. It is very important to follow the rules if you are doing urine dipsticks for prenatal visits, lab draws on site versus sending to local resources, doing finger sticks for random glucose levels in office, or performing wet mounts to rule out bacterial vaginosis. All of those lab …
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