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What Made You Decide To Start Your Own Business?

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Frustration with the system and with constant mergers and buy-outs.

    Lucille "Lou" Addington, RN, CLNC, Florida:"We do medical-legal consulting for attorneys, insurance companies and HMO's, and private individuals. Presuit investigations and affidavits. Expert witness location. Special interest in vaccine damage cases and long term care/elder care issues. My associate and I bring a combined 42 years of professional nursing practice to our cases."
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/addington

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What made you decide to start your own business? The desire for greater independence and challenge in my professional career.

Rhonda K. Alfredson RN CLNC CRRN CCM COHN, Georgia Legal Nurse Consultants:"Discovery Partners provides a multitude of comprehensive nurse consulting services to attorneys, small and large businesses, and insurance companies. Services include Legal Nurse Consulting (med. mal, PI, WC, toxic torts, fraud, soc. security, PL, criminal, gen. negligence) , Disability and Workers' Compensation Case Management, Hearing Conservation Program Consultation and Administration, Ergonomics Consultations, Occupational Health Services Consultation, Medical/Health Related Educational offerings, as well as other consultative and support services."
P.O. Box 555
Conyers, Georgia 30012
Phone number: 770-602-4531
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dpclnc

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Dissatisfaction with current situation.

Dominique Ann Bernard, RN, BSN, Virginia Nurse Entrepreneurs:"My goal is to work from home. Currently I am employed in a psychiatric facility and I work part time in a geriatric setting. My interests are varied."
http://www.4nursing.com/bernard

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Fascinated with the industry

Sheryl D. Bisson, R.N., CLNC, California Legal Nurse Consultants:"I offer services to aid in the resolution of medical-legal issues. I work for law firms, insurance companies and healthcare facilities. My services include, but are not limited to: medical record review and analysis; identifying applicable Standards of Care and deviations from the Standards; identifying records, policies and procedures and other essential documents for complete case reviews."
Specialty Areas: Coronary Care, Health law, Intensive Care, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Worker's Compensation
http://www.nursingexperts.com/bisson/

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What made you decide to start your own business? Flexibility in scheduling; retirement of senior partner with whom I have worked for many years.

Michelle L. Callan Nurse-Attorney:"Medical-legal consulting and trial assistance to attorneys for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice cases."
13 Anchor Terrace, Rochester New York 14617
Phone number: 585-266-6574
Fax number: 585-266-6574
mcallan1@rochester.rr.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/callan/

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What made you decide to start your own business?: I started my first business to to fulfill a personal goal of Small Business Ownership, and the financial rewards. I started NursingCorp to be the culmination of all of my experience and skills, and to be a hallmark of all of my professional talents.

Joseph Caracci, RN, BSN, MBA, Nursecorp.com, Nursing Agencies, Staffing Software Support, Arizona Nursing Entrepreneurs:"NursingCorp offers serious investors and entrepreneurs the knowledge and assistance needed to enter the nurse staffing industry. We provide assistance establishing health care staffing companies, and development of nursing based software solutions. Our product offerings include a complete Nurse Registry Business Package, Nurse Staffing Software for use by Hospitals and Nurse Registries, Business Consultation, and customized software development. To learn more about how we can assist you. The founder of NursingCorp.com is a former Co-founder and President of a large Phoenix AZ based Nurse Registry."
Nursecorp.com
503 W Myrtle Dr, Chandler AZ 85248
Phone number: 866-211-1167
Fax number: 480-361-7942
E-Mail: jcaracci@nursingcorp.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/caracci

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What made you decide to start your own business? I was looking for extra income. While shopping on line for scrubs I found an offer to become a distributor and I decided to give it a try. I also was considering my future retirement and some financial security.

Alyce Clark, RN, Caregiver Scrubs, Nursing Uniforms, Nurse-Owned Businesses, Entrepreneurs:"Sales of scrubs and accessories to medical personnel in hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, dental offices, and veterinary clinics."
Caregiver Scrubs
7130 52nd Way N.
Pinellas Park, Florida 33781
Phone number: 727-667-7180
Fax number: 727-547-9635
E-mail Address: aclark02@tampabay.rr.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/clark

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What made you decide to start your own business?: I wanted a career that truly utilized my knowledge and experience as a nurse; a position that allowed greater flexibility in balancing career and family.

Natalie A. Cole, RN, BHSA, CMCN, LNC, West Virginia Legal Nurse Consultants:"I provide medical record reviews and case analyses for attorneys working in medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, and general negligence. My skills and education as a Registered Nurse, in addition to my training as a Legal Nurse Consultant, eases the burden of other legal team members by allowing them to concentrate on other important areas of a case."
5167 Procious Maysel Road
Procious, West Virginia (WV) 25164
Phone number: (304) 587-7010
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/cole

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I enjoy helping people. The longer I was in the medical field and the more consulting I did, I saw a great need in the area of financial control. Hospitals were broke, companies were broke and the devastation I saw from that led me to help individuals focus on their own financial game plan - Especially physicians and nurses - they made the most money and spent the most - A typical physician earning about 125k a year was spending 150k a year - not a good financial position - So my crusade became that of educator -Educator and coach - getting health care professionals to develop and maintain a financial life.

    Brigette M. Cutchins, RN, COHN, Colorado:"If you are like many people, you are in the dark about your finances. You pay your bills each month and do your best to prepare for the future. But the truth is, there is only so much money to go around and creating a financial game plan on your own can be overwhelming. PFS can help. A complimentary Financial Needs Analysis can help bring your current financial situation to light. It can show you where your finances stand today and what you need to do to prepare for tomorrow."
    1932 S. Cedar Ave
    Colorado Springs, Colorado (CO) 80906
    Phone number: 866-303-0864 toll free or 719-499-9297
    Fax number: 719-495-7100
    E-Mail: 4fna@adelphia.net
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/cutchins

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Interest in Law and the relationship between medicine and law.

Lisa Desimon R.N, D.C, CLNC, Illinois Nurse Entrepreneurs:"Certified Legal Nurse Consultant business, serving as a consulting expert and testifying expert on a variety of medical/legal issues/cases."
7358 Timberwolf Trail
Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/desimon

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What made you decide to start your own business?: I have an 8 year old daughter who really needs me to be around more often, Having my own business allows me to create my own hours and spend more time with my daughter.

    Baraka Dimson, BSN, New York City Nursing Agencies, Nurse-Owned Businesses:"Staff Nurse Inc. is a staffing agency for nursing homes in the state of New York. We staff nursing homes with qualified licensed practical nurses and registered professional nurses. Our rates are extremely competitive and we offer on-going staff development for our nurses. In addition to this we have a department that offers 5 weeks NCLEX review class for repeat NCLEX test takers only. We offer them the support they need and review in a small and intimate classroom environment. Our NCLEX review classes are so good, if after taking it the graduate nurse is still not successful, we allow him or her to continue taking our review classes up to 1 year until they pass the NCLEX and obtain their license.
    312-316 East 149th street
    Bronx New York Zip Code: 10452
    Phone number: 718-772-6663 Fax number: 718-293-3980
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dimson

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Career change/ challenge

Patrick Dupont BSN, CRNA, CLNC Alpha Medical-Legal Consulting, Inc.:"25 years as an RN including 22 years as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) with extensive experience in anesthesia administration for surgical procedures including general, orthopedic, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic, vascular, ENT, GYN, trauma, plastic and reconstructive, cosmetic, interventional radiology, labor and delivery including administration and monitoring of labor epidurals, invasive line placement and monitoring, emergency airway management, outpatient and ambulatory surgical procedures, regional anesthetics, conscious sedation and post-anesthesia care.
15585 Ocean Walk Cir. #113
Fort Myers, Florida 33908 Phone: 239-297-9893, Fax: 239-425-1384
amlc@roverusa.com
http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/dupont

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What made you decide to start your own business? I have always been intrigued with legal matters. I would like to help attorneys and their clients with my expertise and knowledge base. I like being my own boss.

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What made you decide to start your own business? Political & Economic factors

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Flexibility

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What made you decide to start your own business?: The need to try to make a difference, and to see if I could make it on my own.

Angela Halley RN, BSN, CLNC, River View Legal Nurse Consulting:"We specialize in providing legal nurse consulting services to attorneys (plaintiff and defense), insurance companies, workman's compensation firms, and individual institutions for risk management services. Our firm has over 20 years of nursing experience in psychiatric, labor and delivery, pulmonary, neurology, medical/surgical nursing, and many areas of nursing management. River View Legal Nurse Consultants provides a time efficient and cost effective answer to your legal nurse consulting needs."
64 Deenie Dr
Bidwell, Ohio 45614
Phone number: 740-245-9891, Fax number: 740-245-0153
E-Mail: angelahalleyrn@wmconnect.com
http://www.legalnursingconsultant.org/halley

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"What made you decide to start your own business? Ability to work from home, own boss, less stress, more money."

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What made you decide to start your own business?: Autonomy. Money. Respect. A vision to provide a fun and lucrative environment for nurses to work.

    Lesli Hannah RN, BSN, First Nurse Incorporated:"First Nurse Inc. is a nurse owned and operated temporary medical staffing company. Our goal is to provide quality nursing care to ensure the continuum of care in long term care facilities in Maryland. We also provide nurses to area hospitals. We believe in the value of excellent nursing care & reward our nurses with monetary rewards as well as dignity and respect."
    8132 Artie Kemp Road
    Frederick, Maryland, 21701
    Phone number: 301-865-7120, Fax number: 301-865-7129
    E-Mail: lehan@direcway.com
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/firstnurseinc

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I started my business because this has always been my dream, I went back to college to receive by MBA in heath services management. LNC is a business I can use all my skills. Love what I am doing and get paid for doing it.


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