Common Questions About Nurse Entrepreneurship

Nurse entrepreneurship is exploding in the 21st century, and many nurses ask me for advice about nursing-based business. So, let ' s dig into some of the most common questions that nurses have about potentially launching a business or entrepreneurial endeavor.Photo by Josefa nDiaz on Unsplash.comWhat ' s a Business?One of the main tenets of business hasn ' t changed since the days of cave people, and that ' s this: business is about people being willing to pay you for your solution to the problem that they ' re having.In the case of a caveman or cavewoman, let ' s visualize a caveman who knows how to sharpen a bone to a very fine point that can be used to make a spearhead for hunting. The cave woman next door really wants to buy one of these sharpened bones because her son is learning to hunt and he ' s having bad luck throwing rocks at woolly mammoths. The cave woman offers her bone-sharpening neighbor a deer skin in exchange, and both are quite happy (as well as the unsuccessful young hunter who now has a better way to kill his prey).Now, in the 21st century, you ' d likely offer a businessperson money in exchange for a solution to a problem you ' re having, but let ' s just assume correctly that deer skins were units of exchange back in the old days. It ' s all barter in the end, after all -- we just use money now instead of shells, rocks, or skins. Can I Solve a Problem?If you want to create a nurse-run business, the first thing you need to do is find a problem for w...
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