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Independent Contractor vs. Private Practice: A Nurse Practitioner’s Experience

Watch a psychiatric nurse practitioner discuss the differences between being working as an independent contractor and running her own private practice.


Your experience as a nurse can vary drastically depending not only on your specialty, but on where and how you’re employed. Psychiatric nurse practitioner Nicole reflects on her time working as an independent contractor in community health, and compares it to her experience seeing patients while running her own private practice. Today, Nicole employs other nurses — hear how she tries to draw on lessons learned from her experience as a community health nurse contractor to support work-life balance and to make them feel valued.

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