Nurse Entrepreneur Roll Call!

[PaleoNurse]

I would love to get an idea of what other nurse entrepreneurs are up to. Would anyone be willing to share what their business is? Even if you haven't yet implemented your business plan, I'd love to hear from you!

Please include what your business (or planned business) is, your location, how long you have been in business, and any other information that may be helpful.

Thank you!

[clinicalteach]

I took time away from the bedside learned how to program and build with arduinos (all through online tutorials on adafruit and YouTube), came up with an algorhythm and started a company that assisted caregivers with preventing Alzheimer's and other cognitively impaired patients from wandering. It uses predictive analytics and biosensors to discover the patients baseline and then depending on the parameters set by how sensitive the facility wants it, it will send a push alert to the staff and using this tech thats like a suped up RFID it can find within a 1.5 meter accuracy the patient without needing a ton of ble hubs throughout the facility. 

[NedRN]

Taken to extremes with every nurse an independent contractor, I would agree. But that cannot happen, employers have too much power and employees value job security and local ties too much. 

[Emily Jordan, RN]

Gearing up my new business as a freelance nurse writer! Currently working on pro bono work to generate clips, which will then be shared to my website for the world to see!

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

I have  number of irons in the fire. I am developing a health promotion line of supplements for people with ideopathic autoimmune illness. I have 3 auto immune disorders and this line comes out of my own experiences in how people with chronic illnesses are treated. 

I also am launching a line of cruelty free and vegan (Except for the ones that have beeswax in them). So far I have a line of small batch soaps, face masks and body butters. I am focussing on on scent's and textures for all skin types that will appeal to everyone.  I am in the process of getting my LLC and then staring selling at Farmers Markets and local small businesses.

Of course if my Lotto Ticket comes in I'm off to an Off Grid farms where I will be able to expand on organically sourced ingredients for these products.

Hppy

 

TeaCea said:

I am surprised by the lack of nurses who responded...I wonder if a lot of nurses shy away from business because they are truly not interested or because they don't have the support and/or know how.

I think it's a bit of both. But in my experience many nurses are just so tired at the end of the day that they don't have the energy. 

Hppy 

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

hppygr8ful said:

I have  number of irons in the fire. I am developing a health promotion line of supplements for people with ideopathic autoimmune illness. I have 3 auto immune disorders and this line comes out of my own experiences in how people with chronic illnesses are treated. 

I also am launching a line of cruelty free and vegan soaps and sin care line (Except for the ones that have beeswax in them). So far I have a line of small batch soaps, face masks and body butters. I am focussing on on scent's and textures for all skin types that will appeal to everyone.  I am in the process of getting my LLC and then staring selling at Farmers Markets and local small businesses.

Of course if my Lotto Ticket comes in I'm off to an Off Grid farms where I will be able to expand on organically sourced ingredients for these products.

Hppy

 

I think it's a bit of both. But in my experience many nurses are just so tired at the end of the day that they don't have the energy. 

Hppy 

I would like to clarify that my supplement line is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease state. I also do not reccomend people stop treatment. I encourage them to seek out advice from their medical professional on adding complimentary practices to manage symptoms.