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12 things nursing taught me about owning a business

Have you ever wondered if you are cut out to be an entrepreneur? Nurses sometimes tell me that they are unsure whether their nursing career has prepared them to begin and be successful in their own legal nursing consulting practice. However, even the most routine nursing job is full of life lessons that apply to the corporate world.

My first job as an intensive care nurse at a major medical facility prepared me for business success. Later work reinforced those early messages. I invite you to take a closer look at your own nursing career and discover the lessons that will help you be successful as a legal nursing consultant.

Lesson 1 for success: find your passion and turn it into a business
As much as I loved my work with critically ill patients and their families, my inner voice told me that I would not be working in a hospital forever. When I was a young nurse, the vision of myself working in the ICU in my 40s, 50s or 60s just didn’t come into focus.

With only 6 years of nursing experience, I left the hospital and started my legal nursing consulting business. From there, I listened to my inner voice and reconnected with my first passion teaching. At age 8, I spent hours every day teaching an imaginary class. Today I have the privilege of teaching, training and mentoring nurses to live their professional dreams. I turned my passion into a business and since then I haven’t worked a single day.

Listen to your inner voice and you will find your passion. Many nurses have reconnected with their passion through legal nurse consulting, a choice unknown to them before taking my program.

Lesson 2 for Success: You have the power to take control of your career destiny

Patients heal faster when they take control of their health and practice healthy habits. Even the smallest positive action can give the patient a sense of control and enhance the healing process.

I learned this lesson over and over again as I struggled to control my own nursing career. Every time I refused to give in to the frustrations of working within the healthcare system and took a positive step on my own, I felt better. With each step I grew, I prospered and I came up with new ideas to increase my sense of control and satisfaction.

The same goes for your career. You have the power to practice essential healthy habits to take control of your career destiny. Learn about the steps to achieving professional health, including new career options like legal nursing consulting. Then take action on those steps. You can really take control of your career destiny.

Lesson 3 for success: don’t give in to fear

As a nurse, she often treated patients who had the same progressive disease, but who experienced dramatically different outcomes. We have all known patients who lived years after expected death and other patients who should have lived but did not because they gave up or did not want to live. The fact that so many elderly patients die within months of losing their spouse is a strong example of the mind-body connection. In almost all cases, patients who died too early had given in to fear.

There is also a connection between the mind and the business that will influence the health of your business. When I give in to fear, I become the biggest obstacle to my success. That was true when I started my business 19 years ago. That is true today.

Fear will instantly paralyze you. Practice mind control and exercise your mind every day to have positive thoughts. Shake off your lack of confidence and negative thoughts. Don’t wait for a heart attack to stop breathing in the toxic smoke of fear. Don’t let fear be the reason you don’t live your career dreams. Always remember the mindset of patients who live and those who die.

Lesson 4 for Success: Nurses Can Do Anything

As nurses, most of us have brought patients back to life. We can all remember at least one miraculous story, a case in which, with our help, a patient survived through thick and thin.

Whenever I am faced with a business crisis, I remind myself: “I am a nurse and nurses can do anything.” I have been repeating this same message for 19 years and it has helped me overcome all obstacles.

If you can heal sick patients and handle life-threatening emergencies as easily as you make bed in the morning, you really can do anything, especially something as simple as starting a business.

Lesson 5 for Success: You can’t climb Mount Everest without practicing in the foothills

I had to have extensive education and training just to qualify for my first nursing job. All the lessons from that job helped me prepare for the next one. Each successive nursing position required new and different skills that required more training and education.

The same applies to business ownership. Today I handle with ease and success things that seemed impossible 19 years ago. But that’s because I’ve been training for what I do now since I became a nurse.

If you are frustrated with your nursing career, don’t feel like you’ve wasted your life. No experience or job is a waste. Everything he’s done has trained him to go to the next level. Above all, don’t let the fact that you are not trained to climb Mount Everest stop you from pursuing your dreams of becoming an independent legal nurse consultant. Her training and experience in nursing was the first step. Get started on the next step in your training today and you will make that climb to successfully start your legal nursing consulting business.

Lesson 6 for Success: The Nursing Process is Your Friend

When I left clinical nursing, I thought I could put the “nursing process” aside for good. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Companies require the same process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. Each project that I take on forces me to evaluate the possibilities and needs, diagnose the problems, plan how to achieve my objectives, implement the plan and evaluate my results.

Your nursing jobs have prepared you well. You can apply the nursing process to any business situation and challenge. You will thank your nursing instructors for this one. Every time you review a medical case, meet with an attorney, or face a challenge in running your business, you will trust the process you have been taught.

Lesson 7 for success: act quickly and decisively

As an ICU nurse, I learned that seconds make a difference in patient outcome. That is true for nurses of any specialty. I seldom had much time to ponder or ponder a clinical decision.

I have also applied the same principles of acting fast and decisively in business. I am always right? No. Do I make mistakes? Yes. However, due to my nursing experience, I am never paralyzed in inaction and have been able to make the most of the many opportunities I would have missed without acting quickly.

Don’t miss out on your chance to succeed. Learn to act quickly and decisively, and you will grow your legal nurse consultant business.

Lesson 8 for success: what you focus on is where you achieve results

In nursing, I was often overwhelmed by the shortage of staff, the large number of cases, and the lack of support from the hospital administration. I soon learned to classify and focus on what I had to do to heal patients in this less than ideal setting. Nursing taught me that where I focus my time is where I achieve results.

That skill is useful in business. It is just as important to classify and prioritize your actions in business as it is when working with patients. Every day I face dozens of challenges, five things to do at once, and 20 creative new ideas for my business, but I rarely panic. The organizational and multitasking skills I learned as a nurse have served me well.

When you start your legal nursing consultant business, you will not receive additional hours during the day. In fact, the days will feel shorter. Even the general public knows that the working conditions of registered nurses are worse than ever. Your ability to focus on what is truly important in these conditions is the perfect preparation for your successful practice as a legal nursing consultant.

Lesson 9 for success: this is just a business, not breast cancer

Ministering to patients and families helped me put life with all its problems and challenges into perspective. Today, when I overreact to a problem or feel like I’m in crisis, I think of sick and dying patients. I think: “Now fighting for your life is a REAL problem.”

In business I have had many ups and downs. When the moments of depression come, I remind myself: “This is a business, not breast cancer.” This helps me to focus positively on solving the problem instead of embarking on a pity party. I have organized many of these “parties” and they never helped me solve a single business problem.

As your legal nursing consulting business grows, it helps to ask yourself “What if this month is not as successful as I planned?” or “What if my best attorney-client retires?” and remember that it is a fair matter, not breast cancer.

Lesson 10 for Success: Illness Can Wake You Up

As a nurse, I treated many patients who only began to live after almost dying. We’ve all had patients who said they were glad they got sick, because while they were fine, they weren’t living the life they wanted. The health crisis forced them to wake up, reevaluate their lives, decide what was really important to them, and go for it.

Not every day is a good business day. Some days I wake up to the challenge of an illness in my business. Surprisingly, it is business woes and mistakes that often wake me up to creative ways to inject new life into my business.

If your career is facing a health crisis, this is your chance to wake up and change things for the better. Legal nursing consulting is one way to restore health to your career.

Lesson 11 for success: business is personal

Although technical skills are vital for an ICU nurse, relationships with patients and their families were what mattered most to me. Those relationships paid off one day when I made a mistake. Due to our relationship, the patient asked me to remain his nurse despite my mistake.

Legal nursing consulting is a service business where you will apply the same relationship principles you learned in nursing to your attorneys, clients, and prospects. Provide quality service and a great work product that no other legal nurse consultant can replicate, and you will soon feel like you are in a staffing situation again.

Lesson 12 for success: healthy patients take care of themselves

We have all worked with healthy and unhealthy patients and have seen the effects of poor health habits on the human body. The health of a pregnant woman is often dramatically reflected in the health of her offspring.

Running a successful business requires optimal health. Give yourself permission to take care of yourself. I love my business, but I love myself more. After all, without a healthy me, I couldn’t muster the energy to give 110% to my clients and employees every day.

Every lesson I learned from nursing, I apply to my business today. You have already learned similar lessons yourself. You don’t need another hospital job to be successful in business. Take a moment to delight in all that nursing has taught you. These lessons will multiply your success when you transfer them to your new legal nursing consulting practice.

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