Most Nurses Start Side Hustles Backwards: 5 Things To Do Instead

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▶ Side Hustle Reality Check (run your idea or hustle through all six steps): https://www.nursesasentrepreneurs.com/jumpstarters/side-hustle-steps

▶ Side Hustle or Small Business Reality Assessment (not sure which one you're building? Find out): https://www.nursesasentrepreneurs.com/jumpstarters/side-hustle-assessment

▶ Free ebook — The 6 Steps for Starting and Maintaining a Side Hustle: From Scrubs to Start-Ups.™ Nurses As Entrepreneurs · nursesasentrepreneurs.com

Most nursing side hustles fail before they even begin — and it usually comes down to skipping the one step that decides whether the whole thing can work: the assessment. In this episode of STAT Chats, Traci Johnson, RN, founder of Nurses As Entrepreneurs, applies the clinical thinking you already trust at the bedside — assessment first — to your side hustle.

She walks through the five things to work out honestly before you spend another dollar or another hour: knowing the real income number you're after, making sure the hustle can actually reach it, being honest about your capacity and your burnout, pricing for profit instead of revenue, and counting paying customers instead of applause. You'll also get the green/yellow/red reality-check scorecard, the 90-day rule, and what to focus on once the money starts coming in.

Because you cannot be successful and delusional at the same time.