Does having a medical coding cert give you a better chance to get in nursing school

Probably not but if you plan on moving into a care manager/Utilization management job, it will be beneficial and a good look on your resume. It might also help you if you get a job in a physicians office as a nurse but I really dont think it will make any difference when it comes to getting into nursing school. Good luck to you though.

No, not at all.

What about doing a Cna course?

Well I originally was going to but I see the medical codingjobs pays better than the CNA jobs plus the opportunity to work from home for when I want to go to nursing school

Oh ok thanks

Well at least it'll help boost my resume then lol I eventually plan on being a nurse in a hospital though but I guess we'll see how things pan out thanks!

It will also be a benefit for giving you a perspective of the financial side. Understanding what goes on behind the curtain can help make sense of some of the madness.

I'd be wary of "work from home as a coder" sales pitches - facilities just aren't going to let you take hippa protected medical information home, I know a couple people with very expensive (and yet still worthless) coding certificates.

I'd be wary of "work from home as a coder" sales pitches - facilities just aren't going to let you take hippa protected medical information home, I know a couple people with very expensive (and yet still worthless) coding certificates.

Ours work from home on password protected software.

Ours work from home on password protected software.

That's awesome, but like I said, I personally know a couple of people who went to "coding" schools (using serious financial aid that would have easily payed for a couple of community-college adn degrees) and they never worked a day as coders. If you know a couple who found great jobs, that's different than my experience, but both points are valid. If this coding school is sucking up $30k in financial aid (or worse yet, loans), and making the o.p. spend most of a year taking classes that won't translate to nursing school, it might be a waste & they should be wary.

Thats true, I just hope that it will help me somehoew when I go into nursing whether it's getting a job as a nurse or nursing school cause I know that some schools recommend working in the medical field or at least knowing medical terminology which I will be learning.