Scrubs to Startup, business launch for nurse entrepreneurs
No patient contact

A nurse staffing agency, with the cash flow planned for.

A staffing business, not a practice, so ownership is straightforward everywhere. The thing that kills agencies is not regulation. It is paying nurses weekly while facilities pay you in sixty days.

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Go-Live, $4,500. Every price is on this page. Two builds a month, waitlist beyond.

Nurse staffing agency, by the numbers

Typical startup cost

$80,000 plus working capital

Typical gross margin

20 to 35 percent

Realistic time to first placement

Three to six months

Typical market ranges, not a promise of earnings. Your state, your market and your pricing decide the real numbers.

Before you can open

Float is the whole risk.

Everything else on this list is achievable. Under-planning the working capital is what closes agencies in their first year.

Business entity

You do this

An LLC or corporation. Nothing clinical to register.

Working capital or factoring

You do this

Enough to cover payroll for the gap between paying nurses and being paid. Budget it honestly.

State agency licensure, where required

Ours to flag

Named in your requirements brief. It varies more than people expect.

Insurance: liability, workers compensation, bonding

You do this

Facilities will ask for certificates before they contract with you.

Credentialing and compliance process

We do this

Licence verification, competencies, health records and expiry tracking. Facilities audit this.

Facility contracts and rate sheets

We do this

Terms, rates, cancellation and who carries which risk.

Can you own a nurse staffing agency in your state?

You are supplying staff rather than practising, so corporate practice rules generally do not apply and no medical director is required. Some states require a staffing agency licence or registration, and that is named in your requirements brief.

Check your state, free

Pricing, published

What we build for a nurse staffing agency.

Your track is decided by what the business actually does, not by your budget. Published scope caps and a written not-included list, every time.

Your track

4 weeks

Go-Live, Consultancy

$4,500

or 6 payments of $750

Everything an expertise business needs to be hired: credibility with your buyer, the intake and proposal flow, the pipeline and the invoicing.

Credibility architecture aimed at your buyer, not at patients
Case and client intake built for how the work arrives
Proposal and engagement-letter flow
Pipeline CRM and retainer invoicing
Work-product templates for your discipline
A walkthrough library so you can run it yourself
Published scope caps and a written not-included list
Ninety days of Rounds included
Start Go-Live, Consultancy

75 minutes

The Report

$350

$175 credits toward Go-Live within 30 days

Before you commit to a build: one session that walks your whole intended operation and tells you plainly whether a nurse staffing agency is the right thing to open.

Licensure and model: whether you can own it, and as what
Offer and pricing, walked properly rather than guessed
The client journey, end to end
The tech stack you actually need, and what to skip
Your launch sequence, in order
One page summary and the recording within 48 hours
Book The Report

Fifty percent to book, fifty before launch, or six monthly payments at the same total. Interest free, never a discount. Every Go-Live includes ninety days of Rounds, then $179 a month if you keep it. All services and add-ons.

Questions nurses ask about a nurse staffing agency.

Because you pay nurses before facilities pay you. The build is the same order of cost as any other; the working capital is the real number and we would rather state it than hide it.

Yes, and many do. Per diem shortens the cash cycle and lets you prove the model before committing to travel or contract placements.

No, but being one is a genuine advantage in recruiting and in credibility with facilities. It is why nurse-owned agencies win nurses.

It converts your invoices to cash at a cost. Sometimes it is the difference between growing and stalling. Worth a Report before you sign anything.

Ready to make your first placement?

Fifteen minutes with a fellow nurse who has built nurse-led businesses, not a coach. The prices are already on this page, so the call is not a pitch.

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