Carolyn Buppert, NP, JD, is a nurse practitioner and attorney who specializes in the legal issues affecting medical practices and nurse practitioners. She is the author of 8 books and an instructional CD. The titles are:
• The Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide (2008)
• The Primary Care Provider's Guide to Compensation and Quality (2005)
• Avoiding Malpractice (2006)
• Billing Nurse Practitioners' Services in Specialty Offices, Hospitals, Nursing
Facilities, Homes and Hospice (2006)
• Negotiating Terms of Employment (2006)
• Prescribing: Preventing Legal Pitfalls (2006)
• Productivity Incentive Plans for Nurse Practitioners (2006)
• How to Start a Health Care Practice (2008) and
• Safe, Smart Billing and Coding for Evaluation and Management (2006).
Her clients include hospitals, health systems, physician and nurse practitioner practices, visiting nurse agencies, nursing homes, hospices, schools of nursing and a certification organization. She is a frequent contributor to the American Journal for Nurse Practitioners, The Journal for Nurse Practitioners and Dermatology Nursing. Her articles appear on Medscape.com, and she is on Medscape's nursing editorial board. She lectures extensively on avoiding malpractice, legal issues regarding scope of practice, prescribing and reimbursement, and negotiating contracts. In 2006, she was president of the Nurse Practitioner Association of Maryland. In 2000, The Nurse Practitioner journal named her Nurse Practitioner of the Year.
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Dr. Cathy Kopac is an associate professor within the Department of Nursing Education at George Washington University. She is a member of the Family Nurse Practitioner Teaching Team and has coordinated an Advanced Health Assessment Course for the past decade. In Spring of 2003 she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in primary care research at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown. She recently completed her Doctorate in Ministry at Wisdom University in San Francisco, California where her dissertation focused on the use of narrative to study transformation in the lives of professional nurses. Her interest in “dream work” began while she was a DMin student at Wisdom University where she studied with Jeremy Taylor, an internationally known Jungian analyst who has focused on the use of dreams as a therapeutic modality. She maintains a clinical practice as a nurse practitioner, ethicist consultant in Adult Protective Services in Fairfax County in Virginia.
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Dr. Christine Pintz is an assistant professor at The George Washington University and currently the director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. She received her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD from the University of Maryland. She has been a nurse practitioner since 1988 and is certified in woman’s health care and family practice. She has published and presented on topics such as educational measurement, the use of learning technology in NP education and nursing quality measures. She recently completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation INQRI grant entitled, “Developing and testing nursing quality measures with consumers and patients.”
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Lynda Woolbert RN MSN, CPNP Lynda is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Executive Director for the Coalition for Nurses in Advanced Practice. She focuses on improving the legislative and regulatory environment for NPs and other advanced practice nurses in Texas. 2009 is Lynda’s sixth Texas Legislative Session representing APNs as a registered lobbyist. She frequently testifies before the Texas Legislature and state agencies in representing the interests of APNs. Lynda knows the Texas legislative & regulatory processes from the inside and is an expert on the state legislative and regulatory issues that affect Nurse Practitioners’ practices in Texas.