| | | Dear Nurses,
Happy New Year and welcome to our first newsletter of 2022! During the past twenty-two months we have seen nurses rise to the challenges and changes in healthcare delivery with courage, resilience, and optimism. It's exciting to see nurses bringing much needed innovation to services, products and programs in healthcare. Tabula Rasa is a Latin phrase meaning a clean slate, (good for a Jeopardy question) and good for the new year. Each 365 days before us is a clean slate where we have opportunities for growth. Many of us are reflecting, re-evaluating, and re-prioritizing our lives. For 2022, you can design your next year or your next several years. Many nurses view NNBA’s annual educational conference on entrepreneurship and career alternatives as a launch point for designing their career over the next several years. The strategies and tactics learned, and the connections made with like-minded colleagues and successful nurse entrepreneurs, give nurses resources they can trust as they pivot their careers into owning their own business or make their current business more successful. Mark your calendars to join us this July 21-23 for the #NNBA2022 Conference. We are so excited to be back in-person and have many special events planned.
What better way to kick off the new year than highlighting three NNBA members' guest blog posts starting with Dolores Fazzino, DNP, Nurse Practitioner, Medical Intuitive 3 Tips to Create Aligned, Genuine and Authentic Copy and Messaging. Nena Hart, MSN, RN C-DONA, CHPN, RAC-CT Founder and CEO of Hart Healthcare Solutions, shares helpful business advice in How I Used Profit First to Build A Solid Business Foundation. Inspirational Rosemary Magnan, MSN, RN, CCM, shows us to believe in ourselves and not let anything stand in our way in Shift Time: A Case-Story of Changing Roles in Nursing.
We're announcing the E-Learning Center is now open in the NNBA Store! We've made one hour e-sessions from our 2020 and 2021 conference very affordable so you can take advantage of the valuable content as you choose. You'll find sessions on: Coaching and Consulting, Marketing and Sales, Finance and Legal, Eldercare, Education, Social Media, Patient Advocacy and Speaking and Writing. These individual e-sessions are targeted for aspiring and established nurse entrepreneurs and provide business information customized for nurses. There is no time limit to view after being purchased and they will show up in your dashboard area! The E-Learning Center will continue to grow, we will be adding many three hour workshops in the near future.
Registration will open in February for July 21-23, 2022 Nurse Entrepreneurship & Career Alternatives Conference; it will be amazing as record numbers of nurses are looking for opportunities to have more freedom, flexibility and additional income streams. Don’t miss any announcements by following us here: https://www.facebook.com/nnbanow/ and NNBA members, be sure that you have joined the NNBA Nurse Entrepreneurship Community out on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/242972710700574.
Wishing you good health, happiness, and abundance for the New Year!
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Unconventionally yours,
Michelle
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| | By Dr. Dolores Fazzino, DNP, Nurse Practitioner, Medical Intuitive
As business owners and professionals, our brand and who we are is everything. One of the most important things I have learned as a business owner is the alignment of my message, my brand, my actions, and myself. Yes, myself!
The saying “everywhere you go here you are” so well captures this concept. An example would be a person who is very unhappy in their work, feels that leaving and going someplace else would be a solution. The unhappy person leaves and starts their new job, and shortly after they are unhappy. The common denominator is the job, it may be the person. Most likely the person maybe unhappy in their life, and this overflows and affects each and every situation that they experience.
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| By Nena Hart, MSN, RN C-DONA, CHPN, RAC-CT Founder and CEO of Hart Healthcare Solutions
My step-dad has operated his own landscaping business for as long as I can remember. Money was uncertain in our house and the approach to money seemed to be to spend it when you have it. On one particularly long day, I threw away a napkin with blue ink and a coffee ring on it that was on the kitchen table. The napkin was an estimate for a customer. I thought it was trash and threw it out. It sent him into a tailspin of frustration and I spent the rest of the day walking on eggshells. We never knew if there would be money coming in or if there'd be any leftover after the bills, or if the bills would get paid. It was a constant point of stress in our home.
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| By Rosemary Mangan, MSN, RN, CCM
Everything on earth has its own time and its own season.
Ecclesiastes 3
On February 14, 2016, I made a life-changing decision. It had to do with love but not in the romantic sense. Boston had its tenth snowstorm of the season, and we had reached 100 inches of snow. I was working as a visiting nurse, and although I loved my job, it was an "Aha" moment that I had to make a change in my life because I wasn't getting any younger, and the job was getting more challenging. As I was driving around with no place to park with snowbanks taller than my car, I decided: " Within five years, I would either retire or work in another nursing area that didn't require working through every snowstorm, holiday, or had five hours of paperwork per night. " I had no idea about the logistics of where or how I would make this significant shift in my life, but I did know why I needed to make the change. I had to be my self-advocate because no one could/would do this for me.
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