Hanging Your Shingle
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- 1. Hanging Your Shingle(or how to get started in this crazy
businessof Nurse Entrepreneurship)
Presented By:
Victoria Powell of
VP Medical Consulting, LLC
NNBA Annual Conference Nov. 2008
2. Hanging Your Shingle
An idiom, meaning
~To start your own business, especially as a doctor or lawyer
3. Objectives
List at least 5 different roles a nurse can fill as a
consultant
Differentiate between a consultant and a contractor
List several types of marketing
Define terms associated with web marketing
Define what success looks like for your business as a nurse
consultant
4. Is Entrepreneurship for You?
Self starter?
Get along with diverse personalities?
Good at making decisions?
Possess the physical and emotional stamina required?
Are you a planner/organizer?
Have enough drive?
Family support?
5. Consultant vs. Contractor
A consultant is a professional who provides advice in a particular
area of expertise
A contractor is an individual who exchanges with another
organization or person usually by way of written contract outlining
the exchange
6. History of Consulting
Legal
Financial
Employment
- 1950s consulting came to business world when the US economy changed from productionto service orientation
7. More changes during economic recession of the late 70s-80s when staff reductions were made to cut costs