title: Entrepreneurship in Nursing: overview of companies in the State of São Paulo.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study aimed to identify and characterize nursing companies managed by entrepreneur nurses registered at the Commercial Registry of São Paulo by 2011.
  
  
  METHODS
  It's a descriptive, exploratory study, whose data collection, made throughout January 2012, was carried out on the Commercial Registry of Sao Paulo website. This non-governmental body has the function of registering the opening of companies and supervising their trade situation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study allowed us to identify that the entrepreneur nurse is a growing reality through the identification of 196 companies opened by these professionals. Afterwards, it was analyzed their time of functioning, the main economic activity of the company, capital value, percentage of nurse partners and the distribution of companies by region of Sao Paulo State.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andréia de Carvalho
authors.initials: Ade C
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Assistência Domiciliar, Rede Brasileira de Enfermagem em Segurança do Paciente, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luiza Watanabe
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Dal Ben
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sanna
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004471:Economics, Nursing; D016520:Entrepreneurship / Q000191:economics; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics; D009729:Nursing