How reachable are you?
This is a career hint for nurses who travel around for their career, or are otherwise not in one facility. (I travel in a 50 miles radius around my home office).
Ask yourself about your "reachability." This is the ability for your clients to contact you. I've found a good cell phone service is my best bet, coupled with reliable voicemail on that. (When I'm doing a visit, I don't carry the phone inside. The client you are seeing really deserves your undivided attention).
This is my chain of reach ... first, folks call my home office number. For non-urgent cases, they leave a message, and I call back at my convenience. Urgent cases or need to talk right away: they do the cell phone.
Your office voicemail should be remote accessible. If you are gone for a few hours, you can check it, and call people back. Even if you can't immediately answer their questions, people become edgy if they don't hear back.
Ask yourself: what means do I have so that my clients can reach me, easily and conveniently for them?
Ask yourself about your "reachability." This is the ability for your clients to contact you. I've found a good cell phone service is my best bet, coupled with reliable voicemail on that. (When I'm doing a visit, I don't carry the phone inside. The client you are seeing really deserves your undivided attention).
This is my chain of reach ... first, folks call my home office number. For non-urgent cases, they leave a message, and I call back at my convenience. Urgent cases or need to talk right away: they do the cell phone.
Your office voicemail should be remote accessible. If you are gone for a few hours, you can check it, and call people back. Even if you can't immediately answer their questions, people become edgy if they don't hear back.
Ask yourself: what means do I have so that my clients can reach me, easily and conveniently for them?
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