Sell Your Nursing Knowledge

[beanal]

Anyone out there frustrated with their present nursing job? I was there a

few years ago and then started writing health care related articles online

for internet marketers. You can supplement your nursing income writing

400-600 word articles. There are internet marketers who own websites

in all health related fields. They buy unique and original articles to post on their

websites and blogs to increase the amount of traffic to their websites. They

want articles on all types of health care topics ranging from heart disease, diabetes, lupus, cancer,

obesity and virtually anything to do with the human body.

If you like to write and want to share your knowledge then think about becoming

an online article writer for hire.

[jem09]

When writing articles for money most people use a platform such as E lance - jobs are posted to the site and and then the writers may bid for the work. You can view the writers portfolio of work and the writer can ask questions etc through this platform and you can also view detailed feedback that people have received, so before agreeing to write an article for someone you could verify information via this platform. Unethical behaviour can also be reported using this platform.

Out of curiousity, when you speak of unethical companies, is there a particular practice that you would be most concerned about as being unethical? I ask this as I may have missed the mark with my response..

[llg, PhD, RN]

When writing articles for money most people use a platform such as E lance - jobs are posted to the site and and then the writers may bid for the work. You can view the writers portfolio of work and the writer can ask questions etc through this platform and you can also view detailed feedback that people have received, so before agreeing to write an article for someone you could verify information via this platform. Unethical behaviour can also be reported using this platform.

Out of curiousity, when you speak of unethical companies, is there a particular practice that you would be most concerned about as being unethical? I ask this as I may have missed the mark with my response..

As I said in my previous post ... There is a major international business in the writing of papers that are then either taken verbatim or modified by the "customer" to submit as schoolwork. Many students buy their required papers online -- sometimes revising them a bit to tailor them to the particular assignment or simply submitting them "as is." The companies that produce and sell the papers operate in a way much like you describe. The post the "jobs" and writers all over the world accept the assignments that appeal to them. The writers submit their work to the company, which then turns it over to the end-user -- a student who wants an academic degree but who doesn't want to do the work.

So ... how do you know for sure where you work is going and how it will be used? Do you actually see the use of the finished product? How do you know for sure that your products are not being submitted as school assignments (maybe modified first) so that some lazy undeserving student gets a decent grade in a course?

[Freedom42]

I think llg raises some good questions. How do you retain control over what you've written? Freelance writers, for example, have standard agreements for North American circulation rights. I want to know explicitly in advance how something with my byline will and will not be used.

I also question the value of any 500-word article on a disease process that can be written in 15 minutes (and for $10, which is nothing). I gained my knowledge of diabetes, for example, by carefully studying text books and listening to lectures, not by independent research. Attribution must accompany any assertion. Am I to credit those sources appropriately at the end of the article? Research to ensure accuracy would take substantially longer than a quarter of an hour. Something written off the top of someone's head -- regardless of whether that person has "RN" credentials -- is simply not credible.

[llg, PhD, RN]

I also question the value of any 500-word article on a disease process that can be written in 15 minutes (and for $10, which is nothing). I gained my knowledge of diabetes, for example, by carefully studying text books and listening to lectures, not by independent research. Attribution must accompany any assertion. Am I to credit those sources appropriately at the end of the article? Research to ensure accuracy would take substantially longer than a quarter of an hour. Something written off the top of someone's head -- regardless of whether that person has "RN" credentials -- is simply not credible.

Exactly. How does the end-user (or general public) know that the author is a true expert? ... and not just some person who looked it up on Wikipedia ... or even bothered to check their facts at all?

[jem09]

Okay, yes I did see that in your previous post about purchasing of papers but I just wanted to see if there was any other unethical activity you were concerned about. The only thing I can say about that is that a student would fail if they purchased papers that are written for the lay person, for a start they are too short and secondly they are not referenced according to 'harvard' style etc..

When you work on E lance, you have no by line, it is ghost writing. If you were to want to keep control of your work then you would not freelance on e - lance. I should say though, that I have not written for elance myself and I am no means an expert but I have placed a tender for work to be done to build a website.

I do agree that it probably would take more than 15mins to write an article but you also have to remember that the articles are not exhaustive and are for the lay person. They might be the equivalent of something you might see in a health information brochure.

As far as the end user knowing if the information is credible, well this is the business of the end user, it is the case with all information on the web.

[Freedom42]

Okay, yes I did see that in your previous post about purchasing of papers but I just wanted to see if there was any other unethical activity you were concerned about. The only thing I can say about that is that a student would fail if they purchased papers that are written for the lay person, for a start they are too short and secondly they are not referenced according to 'harvard' style etc..

When you work on E lance, you have no by line, it is ghost writing. If you were to want to keep control of your work then you would not freelance on e - lance. I should say though, that I have not written for elance myself and I am no means an expert but I have placed a tender for work to be done to build a website.

I do agree that it probably would take more than 15mins to write an article but you also have to remember that the articles are not exhaustive and are for the lay person. They might be the equivalent of something you might see in a health information brochure.

As far as the end user knowing if the information is credible, well this is the business of the end user, it is the case with all information on the web.

If asked, would you tell your patients to put stock in information that has no byline and does not come from a trusted source? Do you tell them to get information on diabetes from the ADA website -- also for the layperson -- or from an e-lance site? 'Nough said.

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... There are many other ways to make money with your nursing knowledge such as:

*writing ebooks

* becoming an affiliate marketer selling other peoples products.

* having a paid health related membership site

* write PLR (private label rights) articles for other membership sites

* write an ebook, submit it to Kindle and get paid each time someone buys your book.

* write a 50 page ebook submit it to a digital marketplace and have other affiliates sell your digital book. (If 1000 IM'rs sold your book you would receive 25K)

(Create multiple digital products and have internet marketers sell your products and you will continue to be paid over and over for your writing.)

* Read your ebook and create an MP3 of it and/or burn it to a CD. The physical copy can be sold on eBay. They no longer allow selling digital downloads of ebooks...

Good post, B.

Thanks!

[jem09]

Okay, well this is the last thing I am going to say about all this because I do not have the energy to respond again. The truth is that when pepole want to find the negative for something they will.

Did you know that alot of medical information..is not actually written by medical people at all but by journalists? shock horror!!!!!!! and even more shocking...that many of the best seller books are ghost written...I shall never buy another book again.

You obviously do not understand what elance is, it is simply a platform for professionals and experts in their field to contract and tender for work to be written usually by freelance journalists who are categorised by their specialty.. so obviously you would not send anyone to elance to get information because there is no information on there for people. Did you know it is quite possible that information you see on websites, even those for health associations etc is written by journalists, not medical people.

So anyway, that is it from me...I really thought people posting in the 'nurse entrepreuners' thread would be somewhat more open minded, guess I was wrong..

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... I really thought people posting in the 'nurse entrepreuners' thread would be somewhat more open minded ...

Yeah, that's the same little inconsistency I noticed. As previously noted though, that in and of itself reserves additional opportunities for others.

[llg, PhD, RN]

I don't see what all the fuss is about. All I did was ask for more information about how the authors know for sure that their work is being sold to people using it for legitimate purposes. That's a reasonable question from someone who would not want to unknowingly contribute to the practice of buying and selling papers to submit for school requirments.

All the OP (or anyone else) had to do was answer the question. I find it interesting that no one has yet to do that.

[jem09]

Hi, said I wasn't going to post again, but the question has been answered...I don't know what else can be said.

My last post really wasn't a reponse to your question..I don't normally post on forums so I see now that I should have quoted the person I was responding to if that makes sense.

In any case llg, I think your question has been answered, perhaps someone else can articulate it better and give a more satisfactory answer for you. I am not really trying to convince anyone to do it I was just trying to support the orginal post..

[1BlessedRN]

Hi, said I wasn't going to post again, but the question has been answered...I don't know what else can be said.

My last post really wasn't a reponse to your question..I don't normally post on forums so I see now that I should have quoted the person I was responding to if that makes sense.

In any case llg, I think your question has been answered, perhaps someone else can articulate it better and give a more satisfactory answer for you. I am not really trying to convince anyone to do it I was just trying to support the orginal post..

Thanks Jem09 for all the info and PLEASE don't stop posting...