Anderson is trying to give nurses more control over when they work while helping facilities cover the shifts they need.
Curtis Anderson is the founder and chief executive of Nursa, a marketplace connecting healthcare facilities with local nurses and nursing assistants. His experience buying a traditional staffing agency led him to build a different way of filling individual shifts.
Buying a Staffing Agency
He purchased a traditional staffing agency in 2017, according to Utah Valley University’s account of his February 2026 entrepreneurship lecture. The business exposed him to problems affecting nurses, facilities, and patients. He began building Nursa in a basement with personal savings.
The university describes an interest in software that began in childhood. In staffing, that interest became a practical effort to connect a facility with an available clinician without the delays of a conventional placement process.
Building a Local Shift Marketplace
In a Pulse 2.0 interview summarized on Nursa’s site, Anderson described the business as “a nationwide platform that offers a hyper-local solution to nurse staffing challenges.” The emphasis is on nearby clinicians taking individual assignments, with independence and schedule flexibility central to the offer.
Nursa has expanded its public offer to include internal scheduling, credential tracking, and training tools. Those functions extend the original shift-matching service into work that facilities do before and after a shift is filled.
Speaking at Utah Valley University
Anderson addressed the Reed and Christine Halladay Entrepreneurship Lecture Series on February 24, 2026. He discussed deliberate thinking, repeated decision-making, and the role of courage in starting a business. “One way to make great decisions is to make a lot of decisions,” the university quotes him as saying.
He also told students that entrepreneurship needed to mean more than a financial result. The university’s account connects that view to his concern for nurses and the obstacles they encounter in doing their work.