Post: Health Care & Nurse Staffing - Complete How to Start Guide

Posted by michael anderson on 2/27/07
How To Start Your Own Nursing Staffing Agency is a
comprehensive guide on how to start a Nurse Agency,
Nursing Registry, Nurse Staffing Agency, Healthcare
Services, Homecare Services, Nursing Home, or become an
Independent Nurse Contractor, Independent RN Contractor
It’s no secret that the United States has a nursing
shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming
proportions. Too many nurses are retiring, and too few are
entering the profession. To compound the problem, within
the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Baby Boomers are
scheduled to retire from the workforce, with only about 44
million Generation X\'ers available to pick up the slack.
This will soon place unprecedented demands for services on
a health system that is already stretched thin.This
shortage of allied healthcare professionals, especially
nurses have a created a new boom to the nursing agency,
nurse registry business, supplemental staffing agency for
medical professionals, permanent placement medical
recruiter, or starting a business in homecare and staffing
pool. The medical staffing industry will continue to grow
because of the upcoming baby boomers, and the current
supply of nurses are dwindling. The average age for nurses
are in the forties, and they are not being replaced by the
new generations.
So if you consider owning your own business as a way to:
Work for yourself.
Stop commuting.
Work from home
Spend more time with family.
Be successful
Gain more time and money
Set your own hours.
Entrepreneurs have made lucrative business in nursing
agency, nursing registry, homecare business, medical
recruiter recruiting, or as independent nurse contractor
in their own field.The time is now for entrepreneurs to
start a nursing agency,nursing registry business, operate
a homecare business, or as a medical recruiter or just
become an independent healthcare contractor. By being an
independent healthcare contractor, you are bypassing the
agency and are self employed. Healthcare facilities are
the clients. Homecare are regulated by all levels of
goverment from local to fedeal level. Homecare levels of
regulations depends on the category of service provided to
clients. Homecare services ranges from providing just
companions or the more medically needed clients such as
terminally ill clients. Homecare services can be in the
form of social service, non-medical, and medical services.
A nurse recruiter is a recruiter that finds qualified
nurses to fill permanent positions in health care
facilities for a RETAINED FEE usually 25 - 30% of the
nurses annual income.
how to start a nurse staffing agency
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- Health Care & Nurse Staffing - Complete How to Start Guide, 2/27/07, by michael anderson.