Dominican University of California
Holistice Nurse Entrepreneurs: Their Motivations and Their Charactristics
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The rapidly changing health care environment has only recently begun to encompass complementary and alternative medicine. Change is an environment where entrepreneurs thrive and yet there is very little exploration in nursing literature as to what characterizes entrepreneurial nurses, and none exploring holistic nurse entrepreneurs. This phenomenological study explored the motivations for starting a business and the characteristics of five holistic nurse entrepreneurs whose sole source of personal income was from their businesses. Four interrelated motivational themes and ten characteristics emerged from the data analysis, revealing some significant differences between the study entrepreneurs and other women entrepreneurs. This was particularly noted in the areas of self care and spirituality.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Nursing
- Year
- 2003
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Deards, Carol
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Luanne Linnard-Palmer, EdD, RN
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/nursing-masters-theses/13
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:nursing-masters-theses-1012