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I invite you to positive living today.  Let all the negative vibes roll off your back and forge ahead in a sea of happiness. You’re amazing. It’s up to you to believe it and act on it. Period.

What a great way to think.  Why is it that we are so quick to say, “I can’t!” When in essence, we have everything we need within to overcome all obstacles. Food for thought.

This is a wonderful reminder of how we should treat others.  I think it’s a really special bottle cap. 

Group Practice Innovators: Investing in Success.

Housecall Residency: Future Course Dates Procedure

Due to the huge demand for this popular Housecall course,  we at Advanced Clinical Consultants (ACC) will now allow all learners to pick their own dates for the course. Please see the following process for independently selecting your Housecall Residency dates.

Thanks again for supporting the ONLY Housecall Residency in the nation for Nurse Practitioners!

1. Select 3 top dates that YOU want to attend the course (Friday-Saturday combination). You decide what works for you and I will accommodate you.
2. Email these dates to me at scharlaw01@yahoo.com
3. I will verify that those dates are available.
4. Once your dates are verified and said available by me (via email confirmation), as soon as possible, send your $100 and the Registration Form to 3715 Prytania Street, Suite 220, New Orleans, La. 70115. Make check payable to Advanced Clinical Consultants. This holds your spot.
5. The remaining $1000 is due 1 week before the course begins.
6. On the first day of class (Friday) meet at 3715 Prytania Street, Suite 220, New Orleans, La. 70115 at 8:30 am.
7. On the second day of class (Saturday) meet at 3715 Prytania Street, Suite 220, New Orleans, La. 70115 at 9:00 am.

Additional notes: Lunch is included on both days and please bring your lab jackets.

Hope this helps.

See you in N’awlins!!!!

Dr. Scharmaine

The following Hotel Information will be added to the website later this week:

This is a partial list of nearby hotels.

The Prytania Park Hotel
1525 Prytania Street
NOLA
504-524-0427

Courtyard by Marriott Convention Center
300 Julia Street
NOLA
504-598-9898

Best Western St. Charles Avenue
3636 St. Charles Avenue
NOLA
504-899-8888

Hampton Inn St. Charles Avenue
3626 St. Charles Avenue
NOLA
504-899-9990

Also, if anybody has a “burning” question…before you attend the course, it would be helpful if you would please email it to me ahead of time. Therefore, I will make sure it is answered during the course.
See Ya Soon.

~Dr. Schar

Advanced Clinical Consultants just received word of the approval of our Housecall Residency Program. This is exciting news! The 2 day intensive course will offer NP’s a detailed look at Housecalls, how to get a program started, necessary forms, what to put in the Housecall bag, technology “must-haves”, and other general business pearls from ADVANCE magazine’s 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year winner, Dr. Scharmaine Lawson-Baker. See the letter from AANP below. More of the program’s curriculum, pricing, and other particulars will be posted on the web. This is the FIRST Housecall Residency approved by AANP in the nation!

AANP Letter:

Dr Scharmaine Lawson-Baker
Advanced Clinical Consultants
3715 Prytania St, Ste 230
New Orleans, LA 70115

Dear M Lawson-Baker,

The continuing education program titled House Call Residency Program sponsored by Advanced Clinical Consultants (initial program date September 2009) is approved for continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. You sessions are approved as submitted. The appropriate wording for this is:

“This program is approved for 16 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Program ID 0908276.”

In addition, the following statement should accompany all AANP-approved activities: “This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies and AANP Commercial Support Standards.”

ID number 0908276 has been assigned to this application. Please refer to this number when you send the required reports (the list of participants who receive continuing education credit for this program, the evaluation summary, etc.) and any other contacts pertaining to this application. This program has been approved for 2 years (through August 31, 2011), provided no changes are made. Attendance sheets and evaluation summaries are due in this office one month after the program’s initial presentation. If the program is enduring or repeated, reports are due again at one year and at program’s end, unless other arrangements have been authorized.

Thank you,

Stormy Causey
CE Coordinator

I took a chance and stepped out against my usual speaking engagements to deliver a scientific talk on Constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the elderly.  It involved overnight travel to the University of Memphis.  Overall the talk went well.  Of course before I actually spoke on my required speech, I had to give the usual “KATRINA” update.  It is as if KATRINA was yesterday in some parts of the 9th Ward, New Orleans East, and St. Bernard parishes is what I said, as various audience members showed shock and surprise on their faces.  Well, it’s sad, but true.

Anyway, the subject of constipation is where we must continue.  Hence, after the speech, many were interested and focused on filling out the post-test for their 1 hr CE.  Therefore, no questions regarding chronic constipation were asked or solicited.  This was a comfort.  I found the staff and waiters at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn to be surprisingly helpful and genuine.  The hotel was nice too.  I was not sure of what to expect, but when I saw that room service was available, I knew my 2 night stay would be “right up my alley”.  I honestly did not know that Holiday Inn’s had room service?

Will I speak on behalf of a pharmaceutical company again?  I think so.  The only real issue for me was I expected more support with some of the slide content which is customary from most pharm companies…just not this one. Oh well, I guess you can’t have it all.  My overall regret was not getting out to Interstate BBQ or Neely’s BBQ!