Comments on: My Home Business Journey http://www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com/blog/my-home-business-journey Home Business Information Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Laurie Neumann http://www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com/blog/my-home-business-journey/comment-page-1#comment-380 Laurie Neumann Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:19:24 +0000 http://www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com/blog/?p=78#comment-380 Hi Colleen, Thanks for your comment. I admire you for the business you have run for 15 years. My dad was in an assisted living facility for about a year and a half, and what a difference it can make to the person and their family. If you are considering a home based business that incorporates your nursing skills, I have a few suggestions. 1. Run a nursing agency from home. You would be more on the administrative end, staffing nurses for those who need them. When my dad was in a nursing home during the last week of his life, we wanted someone to stay with him through the night. I spoke with a lady who ran an agency and she filled our need. SHe was on vacation at the time, but still ran the business by her cell phone. So , most of the work should be from home. 2. Medical Transcriptin, medical billing or coding - you have the background to transition nicely into any of these. 3. Geriatric Care Management - assess an older person's situation and determine what is needed to enable them to keep living in their home. 4. Elder Care in home - with this one and the one above, you would be out of the home a lot. But you should be able to have a more manageable schedule. 5. Senior relocation - you could be the one who arranges a move for an elderly person from their home to a different facility - assisted living, nursing home, etc. You would work with the person's children in many cases (who may live out of town) and arrange for as smooth a transition as possible. Those are just some places to start. Please let me know if I can help you in any way. Laurie Hi Colleen,

Thanks for your comment. I admire you for the business you have run for 15 years. My dad was in an assisted living facility for about a year and a half, and what a difference it can make to the person and their family.
If you are considering a home based business that incorporates your nursing skills, I have a few suggestions.
1. Run a nursing agency from home. You would be more on the administrative end, staffing nurses for those who need them. When my dad was in a nursing home during the last week of his life, we wanted someone to stay with him through the night. I spoke with a lady who ran an agency and she filled our need. SHe was on vacation at the time, but still ran the business by her cell phone. So , most of the work should be from home.

2. Medical Transcriptin, medical billing or coding – you have the background to transition nicely into any of these.

3. Geriatric Care Management – assess an older person’s situation and determine what is needed to enable them to keep living in their home.

4. Elder Care in home – with this one and the one above, you would be out of the home a lot. But you should be able to have a more manageable schedule.

5. Senior relocation – you could be the one who arranges a move for an elderly person from their home to a different facility – assisted living, nursing home, etc. You would work with the person’s children in many cases (who may live out of town) and arrange for as smooth a transition as possible.

Those are just some places to start. Please let me know if I can help you in any way.

Laurie

]]> By: colleen http://www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com/blog/my-home-business-journey/comment-page-1#comment-379 colleen Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:30:51 +0000 http://www.christianhomebusinessconnection.com/blog/?p=78#comment-379 Hi! I have been reading your e-mails for months. I just decided to write you and thank you for your articles. I have owned my own business for the past 15 years. I am a nurse and operate a small assisted living facility. It's certainly trying at times with long hours caring for the elderly and supporting families facing their loved ones' memory impairments. I can truly say that only by the grace of our Lord I make it some weeks. The joy of serving others is immeasurable. I have grown in being a business owner in realizing that that my business is not a ministry and my responsibility is to provide a service to the standard of excellence and a fair price to my clients. My responsibility is to make a reasonable profit, pay above standard salaries, and pay the bills. Being a nurse for so many years interfered at times with proper business sense. However, I feel that I now have a balance. My husband has been very supportive spending long hours without me being home. I am now seriously thinking it is time to extrapalate my self from the business and spend time with my family. I have been relying on the Lord for direction and today a gentleman contacted me stating he was a commercial realtor and wanted to know if I would consider selling my business to an interested party. With the current economic times, I feel this would be a blessing. however, I am cautious and will not blindly say "This is it an answer from God" Now, I am considering a home business I have been investigating for several and I am disconcerted with the obvious scams lurking out in the web. How can I parlay my nursing experience into a internet business? I know my letter is long but any advice would be appreciated. Thank you and God bless you. Sincerly yours, colleen blais Hi!
I have been reading your e-mails for months. I just decided to write you and thank you for your articles. I have owned my own business for the past 15 years. I am a nurse and operate a small assisted living facility. It’s certainly trying at times with long hours
caring for the elderly and supporting families facing their loved ones’
memory impairments. I can truly say that only by the grace of our Lord I make it some weeks. The joy of serving others is immeasurable. I have grown in being a business owner in realizing that that my business is not a ministry and my responsibility is to provide a service to the standard of excellence
and a fair price to my clients. My responsibility is to make a reasonable profit, pay above standard salaries, and pay the bills. Being a nurse for so many years interfered at times with proper business sense. However, I feel that I now have a balance. My husband has been very supportive spending long hours without me being home. I am now seriously thinking it is time to extrapalate my self from the business and spend time with my family. I have been relying on the Lord for direction and today a gentleman contacted me stating he was a commercial realtor and wanted to know if I would consider selling my business to an interested party. With the current economic times, I feel this would be a blessing. however, I am cautious and will not blindly say “This is it an answer from God” Now, I am considering a home business I have been investigating for several and I am disconcerted with the obvious scams lurking out in the web. How can I parlay my nursing experience into a internet business? I know my letter is long but any advice would be appreciated. Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerly yours,
colleen blais

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