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this is just a general question. if you have your RN license and you're currently unemployed and need a job, ANY job related to healthcare, can you do anything legally besides nursing? i understand being a cna once you have your rn would not be appropriate but could you do anything else just to gain experience and have a paycheck?

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Specializes in ER, Trauma.

Anything covers a lot of territory, but essentially the answer is yes, as long as you're not doing something that requires some other license. Kinda narrows it right down, though.

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so you could be a secretary or something like that?

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Specializes in ER, Trauma.

Anything that didn't require a license you don't have.

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Specializes in CVICU.
this is just a general question. if you have your RN license and you're currently unemployed and need a job, ANY job related to healthcare, can you do anything legally besides nursing? i understand being a cna once you have your rn would not be appropriate but could you do anything else just to gain experience and have a paycheck?

If by "anything" you actually mean anything in the healthcare field, you'd have to check your state regulations on that. I believe if you wanted to work as an LPN you might have to take a licensing exam for that even though you have an RN license, but I don't know.

I'd be very careful about it because there might be a tendency to work beyond the scope of your job since you are licensed as an RN. Say if you took a job as a phlebotomist, what if you participated in a code because you are a licensed RN? Would you be covered by your facility? It's tough to answer because I think the answer might differ by facility/state/etc.

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Hello. You asked if you could be hired for "any job related to health care" while you are looking for an RN position. I agree with the writer who suggested that you check on state regulations and requirements for non-nursing jobs related to health care. Some stipulations for non-nursing health related jobs require additional school work. For example, I recently learned that in order to be elgible for a pharmacist assitant job, one must take at least a five month ,state approved training program and earn a specific certification. Best wishes!

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I have a nursing degree but I am the admin assistant to the president of a company. If you have other skills, why not utilize them? like if you know Microsoft word/powerpoint/excel, etc. I dont see why not?

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Health care is so regulated. I'm a LPN and am in my last semester of my ADN. I go to school in NW Ohio, but am a nurse in Michigan. What I can do in Michigan as a LPN is very different from Ohio, where I am IV certified, for ex, but in Michigan I cannot start IVs. A LPN classmate lost her CNA job at a hospital, not even able to work as a CNA if she wanted to, when she got her LPN. At least in Ohio, you can't work as a LPN either when you get your ADN. Definitely read up on your state BON regulations. You are responsible for maintaining your license, not your potential employer per se. For ex, if you are in a health care setting and working as a secretary you see a patient code or have a situation in which you are skilled, you need to know what you will do. You are a licensed nurse, after all, is what they might say. You're going to have to be very clear, and understand exactly what you can/can't do.

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