2-5 Years Clinical Experience

[NevadaFighter, BSN, RN]

In your experience, when a job description for a case management position asks for 2-5 (or however many) years of "clinical experience", are they referring to floor experience, case management experience, or just RN experience?

[SummerGarden, BSN, MSN, RN]

In your experience, when a job description for a case management position asks for 2-5 (or however many) years of "clinical experience", are they referring to floor experience, case management experience, or just RN experience?

In general an employer who does not specify a particular type of experience and will write "clinical work experience" will mean nursing work experience in whatever setting they are requesting at whatever level of nursing (LPN/LVN, RN, or NP) they specify. By the way, bedside work experience is not the only way to get clinical work experience. In fact, any nursing position involving direct patient care (again, not necessarily by the bedside) are clinical nursing positions.

Thus, many case management jobs are clinical nursing positions. For example, x number of years one works directly with patients as a nursing case manager in a particular setting (acute care, outpatient, public health, etc.) are considered x number of years of clinical work experience within that setting.