Non-hospital jobs for a prospective nurse grad

ceridwyn · Mar 10, 2015

No matter where you apply health care centres, insurance companies, coder in hospitals, you will always be a new to an employer - new. As a coder it may get you an interview but with no nursing experience may not. This however is a place where there is a shortage of trained coders so would be worth pursuing, I was told by one money was good too.

Your nursing degree may get you an interview with a primary health facility....but with no nursing experience and possibility of many, many applicants it would be difficult.

Best bet is to do post grad in the area you want to pursue..diabetes, chronic diseases, primary health. They then tend to look beyond experience and just see the degree.

Butterfly_Light · Mar 10, 2015

Hi ceridwyn. Thank you for your advice, I really appreciate it. But can you give me a definition of a "trained coder"? Sorry, it sounds stupid of me but I just confused it with the IT coder.

Also, I'm not so sure If the universities will let me in the post grad certificate, because they seem to require at least one year experience, or require me to be employed in the relevant area.

In my region, the hospitals give priority to local students, and then if vacancies are still there, they will consider others. So I just have to compete with my fellow classmates. I'm not so negative about applying for a grad year in the hospitals. But I need to have a contingency. Thats why i'm think about chronic diseases just to find a job in the community.

Cheers

K+MgSO4, BSN · Mar 11, 2015

RDNS in Melbourne has I grad program I think, maybe a rural hospital would also be an option as they usually have less competition, slightly less acute pts.

l1234567 · Mar 30, 2016

insurance usually requires 1-2 year in emergency or ICU