Subject: Exciting (and Profitable!) Service Based Business Opportunities for Nurses

Hi Friend,


Over the last couple of lives, I’ve been talking about service-based business opportunities for nurses.


Not in a “start something new” way, but in a “look at what you’re already doing differently” way.


Because most nurses don’t lack skill or experience. They just haven’t seen how it translates into something they can actually offer outside of their current role.

A service-based business is simple:


You solve a specific problem for a specific person using skills you already have. That’s it!


And once you start looking at your experience through that lens, things shift.


Whether you're the nurse who’s always fixing documentation issues, the one everyone goes to with questions, the one who sees gaps in how things are run, the one patients and families trust the most... those aren’t just personality traits! Those are signals.

There are a few common paths I’ve been walking through:


  • Consulting and compliance support

  • Helping organizations improve documentation, workflows, or systems

  • Education and training

  • Taking what you already teach informally and structuring it into something repeatable

  • Patient-facing services

  • Working directly with patients or families in a more focused, private way

  • Coaching and advisory

  • Helping people move through decisions, transitions, or challenges with structure

  • Operational support

  • Stepping into broken systems and helping them function better

  • Specialty services

  • Building something around one strong skill you already have

  • Partnership or contracted work

  • Working with companies, legal teams, EMRs, or healthcare organizations

You don’t need all of these.


You just need one that makes you pause and think, “that makes sense.”


Because this isn’t about becoming something else, it’s about recognizing what’s already there.


So, if you’ve been thinking about doing something different, or just wondering what your options actually are, this is where I’d start.


  1. Look at what people already come to you for.

  2. Look at the problems you see every day.

  3. Look at what feels obvious to you that isn’t obvious to others.


That’s usually where it begins.


Cheering you on,

Nena