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Investigating entrepreneurship in nurses
Investigating entrepreneurship in nurses
Ali Aghighi,1Shabnam Sadat Shariatpanahi,2,*Fereshteh Javaheri Tehrani,3Malihe Nasiri,4
1. Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University Of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran 2. Research committee, Shahid Beheshti university of medical science, Tehran, Iran 3. Research committee, Shahid Beheshti university of medical science, Tehran, Iran 4. Research committee, Shahid Beheshti university of medical science, Tehran, Iran
Introduction: Entrepreneurship is defined as the process of discovering/co-creating, evaluating, and exploiting opportunities to produce goods and services. Entrepreneurship includes a set of ways adopted in order to ensure the production of capital and better functioning of societies. Entrepreneurship in healthcare is a dynamic and challenging process of creativity and innovation that identifies and exploits previously untapped opportunities. That is, it provides new interventions, products, processes, technologies, and services that address health problems. A nurse entrepreneur is defined as "the owner of a business that provides nursing services of a direct care, educational, research, executive, or consulting nature." Nursing entrepreneurship gives nurses the opportunity to follow their personal views and feelings to improve health outcomes using innovative approaches.
Methods: This study is taken from the Master's thesis, which was conducted with the English keywords Nurse, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial, Nursing, in reliable scientific databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar between 2015 and 2023, and in the initial search 20 articles were found, and after evaluating the title and abstract, 8 articles were selected with the necessary conditions to participate in the present study, and general conclusions were made based on the information in the selected articles.
Results: Nursing profession has content and background knowledge to create entrepreneurial initiatives. The nurse entrepreneur identifies the needs of clients and uses his education, knowledge, and expertise through the creation and development of business in the health care system to effectively respond to these needs. The main stakeholders in nursing entrepreneurship include nurses, clients as clients, nursing profession and society, Each of these four components has roles, responsibilities, and expectations in the evolution of nursing entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship for nurses is associated with consequences such as quality care, job and social satisfaction, increased sense of empowerment and independence, time flexibility, maintaining professional identity, self-employment, earning more financial income, and passion for creativity leading to a positive creative environment. Entrepreneurship in nursing facilitates access to health services because it provides different choices closer to the place of residence of the clients.
Conclusion: Although entrepreneurship in nursing is a new focus for the nursing sciences, research in this area is necessary to clarify and identify evidence-based best practices that require the development of nurses' ability to adopt broader health perspectives and challenge more traditional nursing roles. In addition, the knowledge and skills of nurse entrepreneurs can help fill gaps in the healthcare system by increasing the population's access to healthcare services. In the future, more detailed research in this field is needed to expand the scientific foundations of nursing entrepreneurship and its contribution to business performance.