10 Steps to Nurse Entrepreneurship

I recently attended the 2018 annual conference of theNational Nurses in Business Association(NNBA) and I was reminded that many nursing professionals would like to be business owners but aren ' t sure how to get started. That lack of business acumen is both prevalent and understandable.While I ' m not specifically a business coach for nurses, my career coaching practice and experience as a nurse entrepreneur has taught me a thing or two about getting a business up and running.Photo by rawpixel on UnsplashWhat Does A Business Do? Before we get to my top tips for launching your nurse-run business, let ' s talk about what a business actually does.A business identifies a pain point, problem, or need, and then delivers a product or service to solve that problem to a customer willing to pay for that solution. Since the days of people living in caves, nothing has really changed about the nature of business. When a particular cave dweller found that he had a skill for making weapons out of bones, other cave dwellers may have realized that they really wanted to " own " one of his " products " . Since money had yet to be invented as a means of exchange, barter was likely the way of the world. So, a cave woman who was skilled at making herbal remedies may have traded her herbal salves for a knife made of bone. In this way, both parties received a product that solved a vexing problem.When money came along, barter was no longer necessary, thus those with the finan...
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