- Guest Post by Carol Gino, Nurse, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, and blogger at The Hopeful Healer.
When I was working the night shift, one of my patients- a 44 year old man, had just gone for an angiogram. He had been brought back to the floor afterwards, but began hemorrhaging from his femoral artery. I’d added pressure dressings, laid on heavier sandbags, and then called the intern.
The intern took a while to get to the floor and all the while the patient kept bleeding heavily. When the intern just shook his head and did nothing, I called his resident. When the resident didn’t respond, I called the attending. Now I knew I was in big trouble. It didn’t matter that the patient’s blood pressure was 60/40 by the time I called, it mattered that I had broken protocol.
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Andrew Lopez found himself spending hours on the Internet looking for additional resources as part of his nursing school projects and was unable to find what he wanted. What started as a frustration in nursing school, soon became an outlet for him to help fellow nurses and students and provide a great income for himself…Andrew’s Nurse Friendly Directories were born.
Do you have a frustration or maybe a passion that might be an answer to a nursing business opportunity?
The Nurse Friendly Directories is a place for nurses and anyone looking for information about nursing as a career path, nursing schools, nurse entrepreneurship, career alternatives, articles written by nurses, nursing specialties, business opportunities for nurses, the various diseases patients encounter and much more.
So many of us are looking for ways to make more money while we are working as a nurse.
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Hey guys!
After a 2 month hiatus, the EntrepreNurse Summit Replay is FINALLY available.
Next week, for 37 straight hours, we are opening the vault and making the webinar series “Escape the Bedside, Make a Difference & (finally) Earn What You’re Worth” - with it’s 5 hours of FREE training on how to become a Nurse Entrepreneur – available as our holiday gift to you.
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Don’t miss this beautiful interview with my friend and fellow Nurse Entrepreneur, Annette Tersigni, RN, also known as the Yoga Nurse.
In it, she talks about bringing together her love of nursing and her passion for yoga and developing a thriving nursing business from it!
She’s a great example of how to become an entrepreneur as a nurse.
What hobby/sport/interest/past time ignites your passion?
What nurse entrepreneur ideas do you have?
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Wow! This article seems to have struck a nerve and generated a ton of controversy over at the PBS website.
I’m super interested in what you guys think!
Wearing the 2 hats of “nurse” and “nurse entrepreneur,” my thoughts on this article are varied…and almost conflicting at times.
Also, what do you guys think when the media uses the term “nursing shortage?”
I’m curious to hear your feelings…
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PBS Reports: “Surge of Young Nurses Could Help Reverse Shortage”
BY: JASON KANE
Breathe a little easier, baby boomers. The nursing shortage that looked like it might deepen just in time for your retirement may not be so certain after all.
According to a report published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, young registered nurses are now entering the workforce at a rate not seen since the 1970s.
After peaking at 190,000 in 1979, the number of RNs between the ages of 23 and 26 plummeted below 110,000 in the early ’90s. That’s a drop of about 50 percent, bottoming out at 102,000 in 2002.
Graphic courtesy Health Affairs.
Then, unexpectedly, everything changed. Between 2002 and 2009, the number of mid-20-something RNs jumped by 62 percent. According to the report, “If these young nurses follow the same life-cycle employment patterns as those who preceded them — as they appear to be thus far — then they will be the largest cohort of registered nurses ever observed.”
But if your local hospital already has a shortage of nurses, it might be a little early to celebrate the trend. A second Health Affairs study published Monday found that nurses rarely move very far for a job. In fact, 52.5 percent of nurses work within 40 miles of where they attended high school.
Next to teaching, the report shows, nursing is one of the least-mobile professions for women. Without intervention, areas currently struggling to produce RNs probably won’t be seeing an upswing in their numbers any time soon.
The increased numbers also won’t automatically translate to enough nurses who specialize in geriatrics. That, too, will take work.
So what does all that mean for an aging U.S. population? Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and former NewsHour health correspondent, answers our questions below.
These numbers seem relatively optimistic. How will they relate to the nursing shortage?
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Guest Post by Ursula Mentjes
What if you could have anything you desired in 2012? What would you ask for?
Since I was in my early twenties, I have been researching the topic of goal achievement incessantly. I have read hundreds of books (my book shelf and Kindle are overflowing!) on the topic so that I could more easily achieve my goals and help my clients do the same. My hunger to find books on the topic is insatiable. Used bookstores, new bookstores, Kindle – they are all like a magical land to me! Some say that you just need to read ten books on any topic to be considered an expert. What does it means when you’ve read one hundred or more?
For me, it means that I can now help my clients answer this question, “What is the fastest and easiest way to reach my goal?” That is the question that I tell all of my clients to ask themselves when they get clarity on what they want. But sometimes the hardest thing is for them to figure out what they want.
Why is it so hard for humans to figure out what they want? It’s difficult because our belief system gets in the way. Just as an idea pops into our heads regarding what we want, our ego pops up and says, “Really? You can’t have that! You’re not _______ !” Our ego is there to keep us safe by creating fearful thoughts to stop us in our tracks, but it’s only a problem if we believe what it tells us.
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Although the regular housing market has continued it’s long, slow decline, the senior housing market is on fire.
Check out this story from the The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.
If any of you have experience working in SNFs, Nursing Homes or ALFs, this is a great bricks-and-mortar type business to get into with the aging boomer population promising a rise in clientele.
Enjoy the article!
Tell me what you think.
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PHILADELPHIA — Though the overall housing market has not escaped the doldrums, the senior housing sector, driven by investment companies, has gone gangbusters since 2010.
In the third quarter of 2011 alone, 39 senior housing deals worth $5.5 billion were completed, primarily by real estate investment trusts that specialize in housing for the elderly. That figure includes independent-living and assisted-living communities, but not nursing homes.
The total value of senior housing deals in the quarter ended Sept. 30 was greater than the combined total in the previous two full years, according to the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry in Annapolis, Md.
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Nurse Entrepreneurs upholding the highest standards for their employees as one of BC Business Magazine’s 2011 Best Companies to Work for in British Columbia.
Good job, guys!
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Nurse Next Door, one of North America’s fastest growing home care franchise systems, is proud to announce that they have been named to BC Business Magazine’s 2011 Best Companies to Work for in BC list in the number 3 spot. For the fourth time in five years, Nurse Next Door was acknowledged by the annual program that recognizes thought leading employers in BC.
“We’re honored to be named a top employer again,” said John DeHart, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Nurse Next Door. “Caring for the people who care for our clients is the most important thing we can do. Being named to this list again shows our efforts to admire people and attract the best people are paying off.”
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Great profile, in The Gulf Coast Business Review of Nevco, a business pioneered by a nurse and her son, an attorney.
They started out as a humble Dial-A-Nurse service and have expanded into a large international nursing educational material provider.
Excellent profile and great take-aways!
Let me know your thoughts in the comments box?
Any of you thinking of providing educational materials for other nurses? Let me know, I can put you in touch with some highly professional educational material packagers and distributors.
Cheers,
Anna
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Faculty Member from U. of Rochester Nursing School Discusses Success of Their Entrepreneurial Ventures
What an awesome video!
Check out the first 2 minutes where this faculty member discusses how franchising a wholly nurse-run Passport Health Clinic was so successful, that 2 local MDs closed their own clinics and became the nurses’ employees!
Start dreaming big, future nurse entrepreneurs!
Are any of you interested in franchising a Passport Health Clinic?
If so, let me know as I can point you in the right direction for funding.
Cheers,
Anna
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