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An Interview with Sharon Burch

Nurse Practitioners in Business

When thinking about business, the vast majority of nurses and nurse practitioners start with the idea of doing something that utilizes the professional skills they have developed. Her history in nursing is long and varied, but it’s always had a more holistic bent to it.

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Nurse Entrepreneurship: No Longer on the Fringes

American Nurse

A decade or more ago, when I told someone that I was a nurse entrepreneur, I would get the most quizzical and confused looks, including from quite a few nurses. They would say, “But nurses can’t be business people.” Rather, this idea is for any nurse who has an idea they’d like to implement.

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NP Designation Helps Nurses Shape Their Careers with More Choices

Minority Nurse

Earning an advanced degree offers nurses immediate career benefits, including skills and knowledge they’ll apply to their work long before graduation. And because their experience and expertise were crucial to in-the-moment patient care scenarios, public awareness about nurse practitioners increased.

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Exciting Nursing Career Paths for the Aging Nurse

Minority Nurse

According to the non-profit American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC), a legal nurse consultant (LNC) can be employed by insurance companies, law firms, risk management companies, and other organizations and agencies. Some LNCs are nurse entrepreneurs with private practice who work as consultants.

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How Hard Is Nursing School? Five Things You Should Know

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Some nurses choose to change their role specialties multiple times. Aside from patient care roles, options include working as a nurse educator *, nurse executive , family nurse practitioner or nurse entrepreneur. You’ll have opportunities to advance.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Digital Doorway

Nurse practitioners are thankfully filling those gaps in primary care. The nurse who graduates from an ADN or BSN program is basically a novice generalist who has a whole lot more to learn. Generalist nurse practitioners also serve an important clinical purpose in many facilities.

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87 Roles In Nursing That Are Unique

Aussie Nurse

There are positions in the 5 domains of nursing being- Clinical, Management, Education, Research and Nurse Practitioners. Orthopaedic Nurse 31. Paediatric Nurse 32. Rehabilitation Nurse 33. Cardiac Nurses 34. Angiography Nurse 35. Forensic Nurse 36. Informatics Nurse 39.