Discover your job opportunities as a self-employed nurse (consultant, caregiver, educator, or business owner). This book provides current information on new and traditional RN self-employment job options and the information needed to start and operate a self-employment venture. Self-employment gives RNs the satisfaction of nursing while providing the income to maintain their lifestyle or supplement their retirement income. Flexibility and the ability to customize services are key advantages of RN self-employment. Staff nursing in a hospital requires long hours (12 hour shifts) of physical labor. Schedules are not flexible and bullying is rampant. Use this book to discover your options.
Patricia Ann Bemis is a registered nurse who is certified in emergency nursing. She is the president of the Space Coast chapter of the Emergency Nursing Association and the president of the National Nurses in Business Association. She is a leader in the field of nurse entrepreneurship and an experienced national speaker on both clinical and nurse entrepreneurial issues. She wrote a monthly column in RN Magazine titled Nurse Biz and writes one in a medical-legal newspaper.
Bemis has written several books, including: Emergency Nursing Bible, 4th edition (a peer-reviewed textbook); Self-Employed RN: Choices, Business Aspects, and Marketing Strategies; and Nurse Entrepreneurs, Tales of Nurses in Business. In addition, she developed home-study courses on DVDs for RN self-employment, emergency nursing, and for the business side of legal nurse consulting. She travels throughout the country teaching on-site classes for hospitals to prepare nurses to sit for the emergency nursing certification exam.
Forensic nursing science is included in all her educational products. For example, she teaches emergency nurses how to implement the clinical aspects of forensic nursing science in the emergency department. She works in the arena of legal nurse consulting as an expert witness in healthcare employment. She is an online instructor for the University of Florida for the Forensic Nursing Science Certificate Program, a program that she designed. She also teaches marketing for a legal nurse consulting course for the University of Central Florida.
