I'd have to agree, being able to make money with nursing skills out side the clinical setting has been gratifying.
It took several years, but slowly I've been earning enought to cut back my hours on the floors, stay home, and still have enough to pay the bills and even get ahead.
I've been a Work At Home Dad for the past three years, managing a website, dabbling in nursing agencies, working agency and gradually building up income streams. Income that will hopefully continue to grow and support me and my family for a long time to come.
My niche has been providing nursing and healthcare information on the web. More and more, nurses and consumers are looking to the internet for healthcare information. My idea was to provide that information in a central location so nurses primarily could find it when they needed it.
To earn money with a website, is like earning money with a newspaper or TV shows. As long as you have readers, people watching the show, Advertisers will pay to have their message seen.
There are also "affiliate" programs where merchants will pay you to offer their products on your site. Nursing gifts and uniforms have worked well for me.
So as long as you have a website with a decent amount of traffic, you can generate extra income by selling advertising space.
My site's been up since 1997, I'd be happy to mentor nurses looking to do the same. Start-up costs for a website (mostly hosting costs) are a few hundred dollars.
Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.nursefriendly.com