Nursing with little to no hands on patient contact? More critical thinking?

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Hello,

I am 27 and have been a nurse for 5 years, 4 years med surg tele travel and 1 year hospice. I have been pretty unhappy with my nursing jobs through the years. I finally realized that I love the mental part of nursing and healthcare, I always love learning and educating patients. However, I hate the hands on part of nursing, I hate wound care and incontinence care, heavy lifting, always being on my feet. It burns out over and over again even though I keep changing jobs and trying different things. I want to work more with my knowledge and brain and less with my body. What should I do? I'm willing to go back to school. Thanks!

Specializes in Emergency Room.

You have plenty of hands on experience to qualify for a indirect patient contact job. Go to indeed and search case management, disease management, utilization review etc. Or just search the job board where you are for similar opportunities.

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Specializes in TCU, Dementia care, nurse manager.

Yep. Another option. Get a MSN (sorry, more debt maybe) and get a nursing informatics major. There are so many non-clinical nursing jobs out there. It's crazy. Get certified in one or more of the gazillion certificates available and either work for the system or go free lance. If you really want to go into debt, go to law school. Get a job with medical devices and sell and "liaison." Revamp the whole healthcare system by participating in creating an EMR that actually decreases charting time AND makes data/information/notes available to everybody. Become CEO of a large insurance company and standardize coding/compensation (whatever payments/payors/???? are called) and make healthcare great again.

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On 1/27/2020 at 2:21 PM, BrendaH84 said:

transplant coordinator! ?

Do you have any insight on this role more day-to-day tasks I am interested and potentially pursuing this role

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