RN Careers away from bedside

[KYRNCA, BSN]

Hello,

Looking for career ideas where I can use my BSN away from bedside care.

TIA!

[SummerGarden, BSN, MSN, RN]

Under this Specialties forum you can see a list of specialties, where some of them are broad areas that are away from bedside/direct patient care: Case Management, QA/QI, Informatics Nursing, Clinical Nurse Educator, Research etc.

[Golden_RN, MSN]

Infection control, quality assurance, advice line, administration

[amoLucia]

Anything involving 'sales'.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Insurance

[TAKOO01, BSN]

School nurse or maybe corrections

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Also nursing management (though depending on your setting, an MSN may be required), utilization review, nurse consultant, telehealth, and telephone triage

[sweetlv]

Teach LPN program.

[Swellz]

chart abstraction, although I don't know that you need a BSN to do it

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Clinical nurse educators generally require an MSN. If you get hired as one without MSN, you will be expected to obtain your MSN within a couple of years.

[Xance]

BSN would be slightly more difficult I imagine to get yourself away from the bedside unless it would be a different specialty like informatics or the like. To get away and stay away regardless of specialty I would suggest getting your MSN in education or administration. The former would place you in a school most likely, or the training department of a hospital. The latter would put you in a leadership role and paperwork would become your life, although if the department faced a critical manning shortage you still may be expected to jump in if it's bad enough and your hospital encourages that. Some leadership roles are still expected to be a bedside RN in their department for a few days a month as well.