Nurse entrepreneurs combine healthcare knowledge and business sensibilities to develop successful business ventures that center around optimal care delivery.

1. ESTAM FORMATION UNIVERSITY
SEME CAMPUS, BENIN REPUBLIC

2. DELIGHT ANTHONY-NWAEKE
FACULTY OF HEALTH
SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
300L

3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NURSING

4. NURSING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HOW TO
BECOME ONE
Nurse entrepreneurs combine healthcare knowledge and business
sensibilities to develop successful business ventures that center around
optimal care delivery. Nurse entrepreneur can focus their business on
any of the numerous health-related categories, such as information
technology and practice patient data storage, healthcare services, or
medical devices. The work of nurse entrepreneurs carries the potential
to make a profound impact on healthcare.
How to become a nurse entrepreneur
Becoming a nurse entrepreneur can give a nursing professional a
significant measure of freedom to build their healthcare on their own
terms. Step-by-step process include;
1. Education: like other professions in the nursing field, the first step to
becoming a nurse entrepreneur is to earn a degree. Typically, an
advanced is not a requirement; however earning a degree such ad
Doctor of Nursing.

5. 2. Certification: once an individual earns a degree, they
would need to gain certification. The certification commonly
associated with nurse entrepreneurship is obtained through
the NATIONAL COUNCIL LICENSURE EXAM for registered
nurses (NCLEX-RN), which is a test administered by the
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARD OF NURSING that is
designed to confirm proficiency in metrics like safety,
integrity, health maintenance.
3. Experience: after obtaining licensure, nurse entrepreneurs
need to gain experience in the nursing field.

6. Types of Nursing Entrepreneurship
they include:
1. private practice 13. independent massage therapy
2. wellness coach 14. medical spa
3. legal nurse consultant 15. intravenous infusions
4. yoga instructor
5. homecare agency
6. nurse freelancer
7. acupuncturist
8. nurse influencer
9. nurse health tutor
10. public speaker
11. specialized care provider
12. cannabis agency

7. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NURSING
A nursepreneur is a combination of ‘Nursing’ and
‘Entrepreneurship’. This sound integration has various
properties and meanings. The word NURSEPRENEUR has
been making headlines for all the right reasons. Such is the
prominence of this term that nurses have been able to
recognize their roles in an entirely distinct matter. This is
because it exhibits an all-encompassing nature-one that
embraces the domains of nursing as well as growth and
business.

8. IMPORTANCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
1. Entrepreneurship improves productivity: entrepreneurship
injects the economy with a fresh batch of higher productivity
firms increases competition among existing businesses, and
pushes out less-productive ones.
2. Entrepreneurship drives innovation: the second and more
significant force driving productivity is innovation- the
advance of new technologies, the creation of something new
or improved, or doing something in a superior way.
3. Entrepreneurship creates jobs: new and young businesses, not
small business are the engine of net job creation in the
economy.

9. ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENT
Entrepreneurial management comprises setting particular goals for the
new venture. Setting particular goals may help the entrepreneur
control their revolution and accomplish a certain result.
Entrepreneurial management is the theory of utilizing the imaginative
and creative abilities, skills and proficiencies to adaptly open and
mange a start-up company. It is a means of resolving a group problem
through a distinctive and money-making business solution.
Key elements of entrepreneurial management includes:
1. Innovation 3. vision
2. Organization 4. decision making

10. ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENT FOR NURSING
PROFESSIONALS
Nursing/health professionals need, based on this understanding, not only to create new
ventures/technologies, but prospect sustainable projects, anchored in entrepreneurial management,
understood by the willingness to conceive, develop and manage a product, service or business
through interactive approaches and associative with the various sectors of society.
In the field of health, entrepreneurship constitutes a new trend to add social and health value, both in
the public and private sectors.

11. LEGAL HEALTH CONSULTANT
Health care is a complex system with very strict regulations in place, which means attorneys would not
always have sufficient knowledge about medical protocols when handling a medical malpractice lawsuit
or similar case involving a healthcare provider. This is where a legal nurse consultant comes in, they use
their experience in health care to help attorneys understand regulations and protocols so that the
attorney will have a better foundational knowledge of healthcare obligations in scenarios related to the
case. Legal nurse consultant must at least have an associate or bachelors degree in nursing.

12. WHAT DOES A LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANT DO?
The specifics of a legal nurse consultant’s duties will vary based on the case they are consulting on. Their
typical day-to-day duties may include:
1. Reviewing medical records: the nurse consultant will review the medical records related to the case
to determine whether proper measures were taken and were accurately recorded.
2. Identifying patients need: the nurse consultant will determine how a patient has been cared for to
decide whether they received appropriate care.
3. Assessing patients care: the nurse consultant will analyze the care that a patient did receive whether
it was appropriate for the needs and situation.
4. Communicating with legal and health care professionals: nurse consultant need to speak to a wide
variety of legal and healthcare professionals, as well as bridge the gap between them.

13. WHAT EDUCATION DOES A LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANT NEED?
A legal nurse consultant must be a registered nurse. Therefore, the education credentials for a legal
nurse consultant depends on the requirements to become a registered nurse in your state.
Typically, registered nurses must hold an ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN NURSING (ADN) or a BACHELORS
DEGREE IN NURSING (BSN), which means this will be the minimum requirement to pursue a career as
a legal nurse consultant.

14. REFERENCES
~ https://www.course.org
~ https://online.Maryville.edu
~ https://nursejournal.org

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