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Nurses and the Promise of Entrepreneurship

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A Look at the Numbers There are plenty of statistics that we know about nurses: Approximately 55 percent of American nurses work in general medical-surgical hospitals According to the World Health Organization , there are somewhere in the vicinity of 27 million nurses worldwide One estimate puts the number of nurse entrepreneurs at 0.5

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4 Things to Love About Ambulatory Nursing

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According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Nursing Workforce Factsheet , 55 percent of nurses work in “general medical and surgical hospitals.” ” Considering that statistic, we can wonder how the other 45 percent of nurses earn a living.