You are a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) employed as a contact employee in a busy primary care practice for 2 years. The providers in the group include one physician, who is also the owner of the practice, and two other nurse practitioners. The owner of the practice recently made comments about the need to produce more revenue. You relate with his concerns and feel that you have several strategies that could be helpful. Your contract is up for renewal in 3 months. You are highly satisfied with your job and want to stay in the group. You see 20 patients per day on average, and take call every third weekend.

Discussion Question:
What negotiation strategies should you use to propose a contract renewal? Use logical reasoning and provide evidence based rationales for your decisions. Keep in mind that your negotiation terms and conditions must be within the legal scope of practice for an ANP. References and in-text citation should be from 2010-2015

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Working as a family nurse practitioner has been convenient and there are no requirement for financial or other advantages such as leave and holidays. As such, the tactics I would use to renew the contract would be based on what I can do for the facility to improve their revenue collection. As such, the first thing I would do is to make some suggestion to the owner of the facility on how to make some more profit. This strategy will catch the owner’s attention because that is the same idea in his mind. For instance, I would suggest how the facility could generate money from increasing the line..

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