Hey guys,
Just found this article and wanted to make sure you got a chance to read it. It’s from Nurseweek Magazine in 2002, but the nuggets of wisdom it contains are still as valuable as ever. What’s interesting to me when I read this article is that as great as it was to start a bricks and mortar business back in 2002, it is infinitely easier to start an online business based on your nursing expertise nowadays! We owe a ton of respect and a great deal of our current success to the pioneer nurse entrepreneurs that have gone before us!
Enjoy the article and let me know what you think in the comments box below!
Cheers,
Anna
When Opportunity Knocks…
Nurse entrepreneurs strike out on their own to find richer rewards, challenges
By Bree LeMaire, MS, RN
It was Saturday and Karon White Gibson, RN, and Joy Smith Catterson, RN, were making visits to several patients in their new home care business. They were also on their way to a wedding, so they were dressed more sophisticated than usual for a home visit.
They went to the designated address for the visit where the family welcomed them and offered them a cup of tea. Then they sat and chatted a bit with the family, as they were new in the home care business and wanted to establish a rapport with their patient. The family introduced them to their daughter and her husband.
Following tea and the introductions, White asked, “Where’s the patient?”
“Well, there was no patient because we were at the wrong house,” White said. That was when White and Catterson learned that people like to have nurses visit them, even when they’re not expected.
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Hey guys!
In this post, I just want to open up a little and allow you to get to know me better. I don’t want to be just another blogger hiding behind a website or just another “gooroo” whom you never really get to know.
I’ve learned that business is just like life, whether it’s online or off it’s ALL about one thing: RELATIONSHIPS!
And I want you guys to know that I’m here to help you out in any way I can, but in addition to that, I really just want to connect and build a relationship with you. Hopefully, out of those relationships, together we can build a fun, caring and supportive community.
So below you will find a few things you may not know about me. Really, I just want to pull back the curtain and let you know what I’m about.
1. I was born and raised in sunny Miami, FL and was the only “gringa” in my entire class the whole way through elementary school. Needless to say, I learned Spanglish fast and can now hold my own.
2. I’m a Gen X-er. I was born on August 26, 1975. (The same date in history that the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed, giving women the right to vote.) I guess they knew I was coming!
3. “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is my all-time favorite movie, and I can recite every line from it that’s worth reciting.
4. I’m starting to go gray and I can’t decide whether I want to run away and bury my head in the sand and cry, or suck it up, hold my graying head up high and pretend it looks distinguished.
5. I have a birthmark on the inside of my left thigh; it looks like a rocket ship.
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“Escape the Bedside, Make A Difference & (finally) Earn What You’re Worth!”
Let me ask you guys a few critical questions.
Are you:
- Tired of working yourself to the bone & never getting ahead?
- Exhausted by grueling 12-hour shifts?
- Overwhelmed by ever-increasing workloads?
- Feeling overworked & understaffed?
- Alienated by the lack of respect & support on your unit?
- Sick & tired of being sick & tired?
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