💡 Entrepreneurship in Healthcare for Nurses, Midwives, & Allied

Course: Entrepreneurship in Healthcare for Nurses, Midwives, & Allied

This course is designed to empower nurses and midwives with the entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and tools needed to identify opportunities, create value, and innovate within the healthcare sector.

Whether working in a hospital, clinic, or community setting, learners will explore how to become healthpreneurs and change agents in service delivery and public health.

Grounded in real-world health contexts and enriched with interactive examples, this course introduces students to the foundations of entrepreneurship, how to recognize viable business opportunities, and how to transform healthcare gaps into sustainable services such as mobile clinics, maternity care homes, wellness businesses, or digital health platforms.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module unit, students should be able to:

• Define and explain the concept, roles and processes of entrepreneurship.

• Demonstrate key entrepreneurial skills—creativity, innovation, motivation, risk taking and ethical practice.

• Generate, evaluate and select profitable business opportunities.

• Identify suitable forms of business enterprises and navigate legal and regulatory requirements.

• Plan, establish and manage a small business, including health-related ventures.

• Apply marketing, financial and management principles to sustain and grow a business.

• Monitor, evaluate and adapt to competition and plan for long-term sustainability or exit.