You, I, and everyone out there has, at least once in a lifetime, praised an entrepreneur. While some of us have been impressed with the likes of founders, others have found interest in people helping businesses grow. One thing that has remained constant in the appreciation is the liking for the definition of an entrepreneur.
A person who can innovate, motivate, progress, take risks, and leverage every opportunity that comes his/her way. That’s an entrepreneur for you — an individual who drives the businesses in the present day.
Hence, quoting “entrepreneur as the future” doesn’t surprise me anymore. Because it’s the ultimate truth. However, what surprises me is the fact that how diverse entrepreneurship can be.
To put it straight, nurses can be entrepreneurs, and so can midwives. Why have I associated these healthcare fields with entrepreneurship? The answer to this question lies in the five reasons mentioned below.
Entrepreneurship promotes innovation in health care.
The healthcare sector has seen tremendous advancements in the past decade. These advancements have primarily been in the area of improved diagnosis and treatment, the cost-effectiveness of the system, and the integration of information technology.
With these advancements, the need for competent professionals has increased. In the words of Anne Wilson (2012), it is entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial nurses that have been able to fill up the void. As it stands, the health care sector requires intelligent nurse professionals who can think out of the box when it comes to swift treatment and diagnosis.
Health care facilities across the world are inclined towards handing over unique roles to entrepreneurs. This is because of the awareness of the health care system about the essentiality of employing nurses who can contribute to a wide scope of practice.
Entrepreneurship eradicates the feeling of powerlessness.
No doubt, nurses often go through an identity crisis. The fact that nursing is considered low in the hierarchy of health care profiles further intensifies the issue. In the most conventional setting, a nurse feels powerless and loses self-confidence. As a result, he/she is never able to justify his/her potential.
Favorably, entrepreneurship provides a way for nurses to recognize their competence. It facilitates the germination of motivation that dominates “decreased respect”, “job security”, and other obstacles to a stress-free mind.
More importantly, it paves the way for the nurses to explore their interests and back their potential to focus on what they want to achieve in life. This is why the number of privately practicing clinical nurses is increasing. Believe me; it’s a good thing.
Nurses are good at communicating – By good, I mean really good.
Have you ever been treated by a nurse? Or have you ever been a colleague to a nursing professional? Have you ever administered a group of nurses? If you’re one of these, you know that nurses are really good when it comes to bridging the gap between patients and health care facilities.
How do they do that? Partly through their skills and partly via their excellent communication. I know that you have never heard anyone saying this about a nurse, but it’s the truth. Even if you’re a nurse, you will hardly recognize this quality of yours.
Let me get this straight; nurses comfort numerous patients from diverse backgrounds and age groups. They listen, listen and listen—I can’t stress more the highly important virtue of listening.
Doesn’t this process of catering to a diverse audience resemble an entrepreneur’s endeavors to serve a wider audience? I bet it does. Whether or not the audience wants to listen to an entrepreneur, he/she will keep findings ways to engage them. The same goes for nurses of the modern-day, something that makes them ideal professionals for pursuing entrepreneurship.
Nurses have excellent selling aptitude.
As an entrepreneur, all you think of is adding value to your targeted audience. How do you add this value? By selling your product, service, or content. Besides the unique selling point (USP), one of the most important aspects is to have an appropriate selling aptitude.
This makes me wonder whether nurses have it in them. I’ll be utterly negligent to say no because they have it to the utmost extent. A nurse is selling 24X7 when he/she is convincing the patient to adhere to a schedule, to take a test, to have faith, etc.
This is precisely what makes nurses the entrepreneurs of the forthcoming decade.
Nurses are highly adaptable and flexible.
You call them any time of the day, and you’ll find them doing their duties. The world is suffering from the wrath of COVID-19, and I wouldn’t want to stress more about the role of nurses during this pandemic.
Like, true entrepreneurs, they have been flexible, dedicated, and adaptable.
What else do you require from a person giving his/her 100 percent in every work he/she does? — Well, a recognition that he/she can do wonders by understanding that his/her work highly resembles that of an entrepreneur.
With the ever-advancing healthcare domain and more educated nurses entering this field, it is time that we comprehend our place in the healthcare society. It’s right at the top.
Thank you for reading this article, and I’m glad if I, in some way or the other, was able to add value to the time you spent here.
Leave your thoughts in the comments section below. I’m open to constructive criticism, advice, opinion, and feedback.
