Unit 8 Flashcards
y build their businesses to develop and distribute medical products or
devices, offer direct patient care or patient advocacy, educate or train other professionals or
community members, or provide health care-related consultation, among other functions.
Nurse entrepreneurs
Nurses must be able to communicate with professionals and patients
from a wide range of backgrounds daily.
Communication
Long shifts, tough situations and the drive to help others give nurses
perseverance that is hard to match. Nurses know that challenges will be put in their path, and
they’re skilled at finding ways to overcome them. This is an admirable trait in an entrepreneur.
Perseverance
MELISSA GERSIN,
TRANQUILO
Roles and Duties of a Nurse Entrepreneur
Use nursing education and experience to establish their own business venture within the
healthcare field
Promote the business, including advertising and sales efforts to attract and retain customers
Hire and manage employees to assist in running the business as needed
Tend to the financial side of running a business, including accounting, payroll and tax issues
Provide healthcare products or nursing services which may include direct patient care,
education or consulting services, home health services.
Outside of all the scientific
knowledge nurses must possess, they also have a plethora of skills they use in their professional
nursing careers that help them transition perfectly into the entrepreneur role. Here are a few:
Communication
Organization
Adaptability
Industry knowledge.
Perseverance
Nurses learn to be incredibly organized because their patients’ well-being
depends on it. These organizational skills make them incredible business leaders who can
keep track of many moving pieces.
Organization
recommended identifying a problem in the health care field that
which they have the skills to fill, creating a business idea to help alleviate the problem, identifying
their target market and studying their competition before they start a nursing business
Nurse Buff blog
As a maternity nurse and certified infant crying specialist. saw
new parents struggling with colicky babies. She felt it was her life’s mission to help these
parents overcome the challenges of the newborn days
MELISSA GERSIN
Keith Carlson podcast called
The Nurse
Keith Show,
a continuation of care our loved one
might have received or needed in an inpatient care placement
Home healthcare, or skilled care receive at home
Although there are many examples of nurse entrepreneurs even from the earliest days of the
profession, including **
Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton,
Nurses have to think on their feet and adapt quickly, traits that allow them to be successful
business owners.
Adaptability
is a person who has great innovative ideas that can identify a need to create a
business in order to fill a void
entrepreneur
Pocket
Nurse offered one product, a *** that included bandage scissors, a hemostat, an
integrated penlight and a nameplate. Now, the company offers more than 5,600 products
including nursing simulation tools and medical supply solutions.
pocket organizer
The company makes
products specifically designed for premature infants, such as diapers, positioning solutions
and pacifiers.
Small Beginnings, Inc.
Sharon Rogone worked as a NICU nurse in the .
1980s
In
order to receive Medicaid or Medicare, they also have to meet certain standards set out by the ***
Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Keith Carlson a freelance writer while maintaining his blog called
Digital
Doorway
For aspiring entrepreneurs, the following businesses are among the many growth opportunities within
the healthcare industry:
Home Health Care
Medical Transcription
Medical Supply Sales.
According to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, the number of people in healthcare occupations is projected to grow ** by 2026,
adding nearly 2.4 million new jobs. T
18%
meet patients in their homes to provide skilled
nursing care including medication administration, changing dressings, treatment and other nursing
interventions. T
Visiting nurses, also called homecare nurses