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I personally would NOT go into nursing. Find something better to do as your new career. What about nursing draws you? helping people? a fascination with health and disease? a personal experience in a hospital? Frind that interest and pursue it OUT of the nursing arena. Nursing is grueling work, rewarding, yes, but so high stress and out of the 100 nurses that are in my unit maybe 10 actually enjoy it and would do it agian if given the choice. The hours and schedule are the most unfriendly to women and families. You will be physically exhausted and it gets worse when you are in your 50's and 60's. You wilol be seriously overworked. Reconsider it. I dissuade all from entering nursing!

I do not - at this time - have any desire to have a staffing agency. I want to be a "mini-agancy" with a staff of one - Me! I would like to have the protection of a corporaqtion but wonder if you think one kind is preferable - sub chapter S? LLC? or PPG?

Nurse Entrepeneur/Independent Conrator Hello all! I have been digging in the net for a few months now seeking information on these topics and just discovered your forum. It is wonderful! I recommend a site by the Association of Independent Nurse Contractors. www.independentrn.com. I have just requested their information packet. Membership permits one to join a forum of other entrepeunurial nurses and I think it could be invaluable. I am working for a staff agency, love where I work, love that my schedule is convenient for me. The agency staff that I work with are friendly and very, very nice. The drawbacks - I do not like getting cancelled since I need the $$$. I wish I had health insurance but can't afford it on my salary. I need more income! I have no ambition to have a staffing agency but want to be a mini-agency of One! I am finding the information in this particular forum to be so helpful. I did not think of everything! And you have given me a set of tasks and actions that I need to work on. My ex-husband had his own business and I did all the office and book-keeping/tax stuff so I am somewhat familiar with the effort and costs of doing business. I am familiar with NSO for malpractice insurance. Do you recommend other companies to check into? Is my idea of being my own "agency of one" a feasible one? I expect to be treated like a staffing agency - given a list of avaiable shifts needing to be filled (with yours truly filling what I can) realizing that I can be cancelled just like any agency nurse. I anticipate I need to talk with the HR department or whoever authorizes agency contracts. I ask the billable rate that I deem desirable ( a better hourly wage with the extra costs of business added on).Since I am not interested in hiring others - I NEVER want to have employees!) I am expecting costs to be: malpractice insurance FICA/workman's comp/extra soc sec payments etc my recerts in ACLS, costs of CEUs various self-employment taxes accounting and legal costs license fees professionalk subscriptions/dues/conventions health/vision/dental insurance What am I leaving out? Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance for any help and ideas you can offer.

AT LAST - after untold hours looking for just this type of information..... Very very helpful and packed with good information. Thnaks!:yeah:

I am like all of you - wanting to have some control over my schedule AND earn more money! Let's just share thoughts and ideas we glean as we read, surf the net, etc. Too many of these posts are "does anyone have any ideas how to......" with no answers, every one asking for help and no one giving any. Let's put our collective heads together and figure this out ourselves! I ordered a downloadable package from the Miracles and it was OK. I wrote and asked them some questions and got some replies within just two or three days. But I felt like I wasn't getting the IMPORTANT question answered which is "What do I charge"!! Personally, I am interested in being an independent contractor for one or two facilities acting just like a staff nurse or agency nurse. I worked for alkmost 5 years with a major hospital and just the last three months have worked for an agency. I LOVE the freedom the agency offers - I set my own schedule!! I can haave weekends with my family and holidays off if I want! I no longer work graveyard! My salary is the same. l Where I work is MUCh more pleasant and enjoyable. The downside? I get cancelled for several shifts a month and I need the income that 40 hours a week give (at my current salary rate). I have no health insurance and can't afford it when the salary is no different from what I got at a hospital. and THE biggie - I get paid my $25 hour but the agency gets........??? $35? $45? $65? an hour? I want to form my own mini-agency of one and just under cut the staffing agencies amd what they charge the local facilities. Of course, the million dollar question is "what do they charge" Any ex-staff agency peiple out there? I have spent hours cruising the net and found a few sites that gave me an idea of charges. One gave ranges by geographic areas and, roughly speaking, the bill rate in 2005 was $50-65 hour for bedside nurses. Travel nursing was a lot more. http://media.monster.com/a/i/intelligence/pdf/Contract%20Management/healthcare_assessment.pdf TO be an independent contractor you need to determine: 1) your focus. One person agency? Legal consultnat? Asetheician? etc 2) Get an IRS FIN# 3) Go to your local governments and do whatever you need re:business permits and licenses 4) Open an seperate checking account and credit card for your business 5) Decide on a business name and check the web for your own URL/domaine nameSeparate credit card 6) NSO for malpractice insurance 7) Market research - go to HR at local facilities and TALK to them about temp- staffing or talk to other legal consultants etc 8) Get a contract drafted and check it with an attorney www.legalzoom.com 9) Design your letterhead, business caqrds and business flyer 10) NETWORK. Look up networking groups on the internet and attend the meetings. 11) Call on the accounts you wants. Caqll. Set up the appointment and sell your self! Now, This is some Ideas I have written down the past few weeks as I organized my thoughts and goals.l I woulkd kkoive feedback and suggestions and I hope we can allk benefit from this.l Go to the web site of National Association of Independent Nurses www.independentrn.com. Join. I have requested the information pack they offer and will most likely join. members have a discussion forum and I think that will be invaluable.. Good Luck All!!

I agree, I think the money isn't that great. In the late 1970's friends of mine went to Saudi Arabia and got more than $30,000 in nursing with ARAMCO - a huge salary back then because it was accorded "hardship Pay" since it was acknowledged that a lot was given up to work there. My friends could not leave the compound with out a proper male escort. There was a lot they could NOT do - shop, entertainment, meals out with friends,travel (except outside of the Arab countries during their vacations) - in the native culture. All "fun" had to be created within the compound. True, there were no taxes they had a home to maintain in the US that they could return to. They did save a lot but I think the pay should far exceed what an expienced nurse gets in the US hospitals for it IS a hardship in many ways. After all, everyone I personally know who has gone there to work has gone only for the money and the vacations to travel in Europe - not because they wanted to live in Saudi Arabia:loveya:

The article was the expressed experiences and opinions of one individual and she is entitled to it. I never got the impressin that Mulims were "bad" from her writings. My doctor is Muslim,an long-time friend and prior room-mate was from Iraq, my girlfriend is married to a Muslim -BUT! - these are Muslims in the USA and not Muslims in Saudi. I have 5 friends/aquaintances who have been in Saudi Arabia to work and all 5 corroborate this writer's experience. Don't let your own identification as a Muslim in America get in the way of invalidating her experiences there. The Muslim world in the US is very different from those in the Middle East.