How to begin working from home

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Hi all,

I currently teach Nursing at a local Community College in Oregon and am looking to retire to Louisiana in 1-3 years. I will still need some income for at least 5 years (until SS is available to me). I'm wondering if anyone can tell me about RN positions without responsibilities on site. I would like to work from home and limit travel.

The most common ideas I have found are medical telephone triage/advice and case management (especially for worker's compensation). Does anyone have experience with these? What are the pros and cons of such jobs? Can they actually be "part time"? (I don't want to do a 40+ hour week).

Thanks in advance for any input.

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I can see triage being a part-time position depending on the organization and their needs. However, many case management positions are a full FTE. My recommendations is to do a general job search and find what interests you. Are there part-time positions available that you are looking for? There are going to be multiple pros/cons to each of these positions (i.e. finding proper resources, support from team/manager, measuring productivity, etc.). Best wishes and good luck on your job search.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Have you looked into being a student mentor or course mentor at WGU or other online universities?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Have you looked into being a student mentor or course mentor at WGU or other online universities?

All mentoring positions at WGU are full time, and course mentoring requires a doctorate. Just an FYI

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I agree with the first poster, Google, something along the lines of, "part-time remote nursing jobs" or "part-time remote nonclinical nursing jobs." You can join flex jobs, search Indeed, etc. If you want to stay in academia, try to see if the university you are working with offer remote options, or search univerisities in your state, or any university for that matter, if you can work remote or part time. Try to contract with SNF, Independent nursing facilities and see if they will hire you part time to find clients for them, do some work for them, coordinate CNAs for them from home, etc. Last, but not least, become an entrepreneur and tutor the next generation of nursing students. The options are limitless. I hope that you get the idea and hopefully others will join and reply to your question. Good luck and let us know of your process and results :)

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I am sorry, one more option. Depending on your background and writing skills, you might want to take up writing or medical writing. Start a blog about your experience, etc. or in your specialty and monetarize the site. Just a thought. I am done for now :)

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