NURSE ENTREPRENEURS-ATTITUDES &

CHARACTERISTICS
JOY LYZETTE R. CARREON, RN, MAN
SKILLS OF A NURSE ENTREPRENEUR

 skills are essential to keeping an organization running

smoothly
 These skills help professionals understand both the
internal and external factors that impact an
organization's success, as well as the processes involved
in carrying out business goals.
SKILLS

1. STRATEGY SKILLS
2. PLANNING SKILLS
3. MARKETING SKILLS
4. FINANCIAL SKILLS
5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
6. HUMAN RELATION SKILLS
CHARACTERISTICS OF A NURSE
ENTREPRENEUR

1. ENTREPRENEURIAL
CHARACTERISTICS
- These are often achieved through
education, hard work and planning.
2. RISK TAKER
-Must be willing to face risk
-Minimizes risk through research, planning
and skill development
3. PERCEPTIVE
- Must be willing to view problems as
opportunities and challenges
4. CURIOUS
-Should know how thigs work
-Takes time to pursue the unknown
 5. IMAGINATIVE
- Entrepreneurs are creative
- Knows how to innovate, create new products and generate new
ideas

- 6. PERSISTENT
- Face bureaucracy, make mistakes, receive criticism deal with
problems
7. GOAL-SETTING
-motivated by the excitement of starting a new
business

8. HARDWORKING
- Need great deal of energy a see a venture start
and succeed.
9. SELF-CONFIDENT
-Believe in themselves

10. FLEXIBLE
-adapts to changing trends, markets, technologies,
rules and economic environments.
 11. INDEPENDENT
- An entrepreneur’s desire for control and the ability to
make decisions often makes it difficult for them to work
in a controlled environment.
SCOPE OF NURSING PRACTICE
ENTREPRENEUR

The broad scope of today’s health sector

allows for a wide range of activities in which
nurses may potentially become
professionally self-employed and expert.
 1. Nursing services

 2. Development, assessment and sale of health care

products and services.
 3. Legal services
 4. Health Care/policy consultation
 5. Health Care/ policy publications
ARTICLE VI, RA 9173 URSING PRACTICE
SECTION 28. SCOPE OF NURSING.
 - A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing within the meaning of this Act
when he/she singly or in collaboration with another,
 initiates and performs nursing services to individuals, families and communities in
any health care setting. It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during
conception, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, preschool, school age,
adolescence, adulthood, and old age. As independent practitioners, nurses are
primarily responsible for the promotion of health and prevention of illness.
PROJECT ENTREPRENURSE BY DOLE

 An initiative of DOLE, in collaboration with BON-PRC, DOH, PNA, UPCN, OHNAP

and other government and non-government entities to promote nurse
entrepreneurship by introducing a home health care industry in the Philippines
 to reduce the cost of health care by bringing primary health care to maximize
employment opportunities.
 nurses and to utilize the country’s unemployed delivery of public health services
Millennium Development Goals
consistent with the Fourmula Department of Health.
 The strategy is to encourage nurses to form
cooperatives and manage nurses’ clinics, under the
supervision of trained and experienced nurses, which
will deploy newly licensed nurses o poor rural
communities with little or no access to basic health care
and with substantial populations of sick, elderly and
disabled patients.
 These services will be compensated by the LGU, Philhealth,
HMOs, by the patients themselves on a per visit basis, or from
grants from local and foreign donors. Congressmen’s and
Senator’s priority Development Funds shall also be tapped.
 Quality health care is an expensive option for most Filipinos,
many of whom or not have health insurance.
FIRST PROJECT

 The Davao Region will be the pilot area for the program wherein there will be one
nurses’ cooperative for each of the five provinces and one for Davao City.
 It is chosen as the pilot area because the idea for the program was conceptualized
by Dole regional Director Jalilo dela Torre.
 The program’s strategy is to encourage nurses to form
cooperatives with a minimum number of nurse
members of 500 and manage nurses’ clinic, under the
supervision of trained and experienced nurses, which
will deploy newly licensed nurses to poor rural
communities with little or no access to basic health care.