Nurse Thinking About Management Consulting

[Pancakes113]

I have been an RN for 5 years in a large hospital system and currently completing an NP/PhD program.

After graduation, I was thinking about management consulting as a possible career to get insight into hospital CEO/CNO/COO roles. My goal is to be involved in hospital administration/systems/strategy and hopefully one day become a C-level exec so I can make a larger impact on a systems level.

I have been invited for on campus interviews for McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group in about 3-4 months.

1. Is this a feasible transition? RN>>Management Consulting>>Hospital Administration

2. Does anyone have experience working for management consulting firm as a health care provider?

3. Any general advice on how to be successful?

Thanks, I appreciate any feedback!

[Aquamonkey317]

Yes, please updates. I hope everyone is healthy and happy. I imagine we are a unique section of nursing interested I'm management consulting. 

I've been wanting to work in management consulting for a long time (10+ years) and thought going through nursing t a tier1 school would help. So...I did just that. I haven't applied to anyone consulting firms yet put really want to do that in this calendar year. 

I set up a job alert for a role at McK that seemed to be increasing in popularity/need lately. I've wondered, too, how competitive the salary would be when I had seen job titles like Nurse Implementation Coach compared to Consultant. And just tonight, I see that the title says Nurse Implementation Consultant. I hope nurses are minimally paid on par to consultants.

I just passed my one year of nursing at at VA -- in long term care -- and have a generalist MSN. After my bachelor's degree and 7 years working in corporate wellness, I completed a prelicensure graduate nursing program. 

 

@Pancakes113 @cjapark looking forward to your updates and advice.

@OnHisRoadMap @distancerunner Did you still pursue management consulting roles?