mmrn59

I am an RN certified in School Nursing with a Masters in Health Education and have been working in the school for 16 years since leaving Med/Surg and Post-partum/Newborn Nursery in the hospital. In addition I work a part-time job as an RN in First Aid at a local entertainment complex where we deal with guest medical issues as well as employee occupational health issues. Within the past 7 months, I took the CPC course online with AAPC and earned my CPC-A certification with the hope of giving up my part-time job and getting established in a part-time coding position or something similar which I can continue doing after retiring from the school district in the next 3-8 years. There are very few coding positions open for those with the apprentice status and those few I have seen have been full-time day positions which would require me to leave the school earlier than I had planned, having an adverse effect on my retirement. I welcome any advice on suggestions of future career moves to use the education and training that I have now to plan for part-time work for my retirement. As a single mom who raised two boys on her own, I am not in a position to just sit back and enjoy a wealthy retirement and will need to work part-time. Ideally, working from home as a coder would be great but I just don't know how to get there from here.