💡 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 entrepreneurship and explain its importance to the professional nurse or midwife

• 🧠 Outline the key characteristics and behaviors of a successful entrepreneur

• 💡 Identify sources of business opportunities in health and apply creative thinking to develop solutions

• 📢 Understand the basics of marketing health services effectively to the target population

• 🛠️ Utilize available opportunities within the health facility to provide or expand essential services