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 manner. This is because it exhibits an all-encompassing nature—one that embraces the domains of nursing as well as growth and business.
An entrepreneur is a combination of “Nursing” and Entrepreneurship.” This sound integration has various properties and meanings. However, to concretely understand them, we must know the core definitions of both the aforementioned fields.
What is Nursing?
As per the American Nurses Association (ANA), nursing is a profession that works in favor of the promotion of high-quality health, prevention of illness, and the treatment of individuals suffering through a specific problem.
In simple words, nursing defines the functionality of nurses and how they contribute to the health care facilities for facilitating healthy societies and communities.
What is Entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship, on the contrary, is a field that focuses on the development and administration of businesses in a competitive market. Kirzner (2015), while stressing on competition and entrepreneurship defines the people involved in launching new and innovative businesses as entrepreneurs.
Nurses as entrepreneurs—A revolution in the making
There’s a reason why I have named my venture as Nursingpreneur. That reason corresponds to the fact that both nursing and entrepreneurship are closely associated. However, to recognize the association, one must be willing to take the challenge of self-development.
Why do I believe that nurses can be successful entrepreneurs?
Well, because they have:
- Good communication skills – You probably don’t recognize this, but you are the ones comforting the patients most of the time.
- Great listening capability – Let me get this straight. Listening is one of the most challenging and essential virtue—one that nurses are gifted with.
- Excellent selling aptitude – Aren’t you selling when you convince a patient to take the test or lure a child into adhering to a certain schedule? Actually – YOU ARE.
Also, they are:
- Ethically and morally oriented: Health care functioning highly values the compliance with ethics, something that nurses achieve through their well-structured mind frame.
- Adaptable: Have you seen nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic? All around the world, nurses have been pulling off wonders by their flexibility, dedication, and, adaptability.
All-in-all, nurses have all it takes to be successful as entrepreneurs in the ever-growing healthcare market. Besides being competent, nurses know how to add value to their contribution and how to market it appropriately.
What’s the future as a Nursepreneur?
The question that saturates every mind which thinks about taking a risk on the back of his or her skills and competence.
Let me tell you that the future of entrepreneurs is bright principally due to the following reasons:
- Nurse entrepreneurs bridge the gap between high-quality health care delivery because they emphasize the use of apt products and modern technology.
- Nurse entrepreneurs lead the innovative industry where products and services are rendered based on experiences and analytical models.
- Nurse entrepreneurs are their own boss, and they are free to try their luck out in the competitive market.
- Nurse entrepreneurs have the capability to transform the health care sector in accordance with what they perceive as right and wrong.
If something of this stature cannot have a future, I don’t know what will.
I know you are interested in becoming a Nursepreneur and that’s why I’d recommend that you keep updating yourself with regard to your surroundings.
Also, if you have any suggestions about the same, I’m all ears.
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References
American Nurses Association. (2020). Retrieved 1 May 2020, from https://www.nursingworld.org/ana/
Kirzner, I. M. (2015). Competition and entrepreneurship. University of Chicago Press.
