Nurse Buppert is uniquely qualified to provide expert, practical business and legal guidance to NPs, prospective NPs, and those who would employ them. She currently maintains a legal practice specializing in legal and business issues in primary care. She is president of Better Life in Health Care Systems, which contracts with businesses for NP services. She also practices as an NP as Director of Student Health at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD.
She is the author of the "Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide" which focuses, specifically and in-depth, on the legal and business issues that NPs face.
Her latest book "The Primary Care Provider's Guide to Compensation and Quality: How to Get Paid and Not Get Sued," provides the PCP the tools needed to improve their practice.
In 1991, she received her JD with honors from the University of Baltimore School. She attended the Adult Primary Health Care program at the University of California, San Francisco where she was granted her MS in 1985. Her BSN with high honors was conferred by the University of Oregon, Portland in 1982.
Carolyn Buppert has also been awarded the Nurse Practitioner of the Year award by The Nurse Practitioner Journal. In Mach of 2000 She brought together 24 NPs from around the country to participate in the Annapolis Think Tank. The purpose of this Think Tank was to ally NP organizations and advance the profession. This group of NPs has since developed a National Marketing Campaign to increase the visibility of nurse practitioners.