What else can be done with RN

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Specializes in PCCN.

any suggestions? As in good suggestions to use the degree toward another degree?

How about jobs that pay kind of close to nursing? Other professions?

As one can guess, I've had it with nursing and need to do something!

Yes , getting desperate.

Also , have looked for other RN jobs in my area- nothing available but pt care mostly.Insurance Co's want coding experience.

So its back to school for me , unless any other suggestions can be made?

Thanks

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Have you already cleared your RN exam?

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Pharmaceutical rep. Whenever I see them they always impress me with their business attire and well put together appearance. Especially if you get a nice company car and other perks. Thought I saw somewhere that the salary can be good too.

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Specializes in PCCN.

All the rep jobs I looked at wanted a "proven sales record" Kind of hard to get if you can't get hired into sales in the first place.

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Specializes in PCCN.
Have you already cleared your RN exam?

yes i have been doing this for over 10 years

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Specializes in geriatrics.

Maybe case management? Occupational health nursing? Working for an insurance company?

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Local/state health departments need RNs and their role is very different than in a hospital setting. I worked as an LPN at the health dept and loved it. After I got my BSN,RN I became a school nurse and love my job even more. I may not make much money, but the work is rewarding and summers-weekends-holidays off are awesome! Good luck to you!

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Good luck to you! My last couple of years in the hospital I was a Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist --- and I LOVED it, (granted I missed patient care...) but I got to review all the Medicare Inpatient Charts in the hospital, look over labs, MD notes, ER notes, nurses notes etc... and critique the doctors progress notes and suggest to them ways they could more effectively document their patients severity of illness --- AKA chance to nitpick the doctors that typically nitpick us, and a chance to put that knowledge to good use, AND a chance to educate -- doctors, NPs, PAs etc... ALSO - a chance to improve payment received for the hospital, and allow an accurate depiction of how sick and involved certain patients are. I LOVED It! I wish I were still doing it!! Let me know if you need any help/suggestions or have questions!! -- Sarah

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

You can become an instructor at a trade school or investor-owned school. RNs with diplomas, associate degrees and BSNs are employed by these schools to teach CNA students, MA students, and students enrolled in practical nursing programs.

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MD office, insurance company, home health coordinator (not patient care), hospice coordinator (not patient care), research nurse, school nurse, camp nurse, telephonic nurse.........

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Specializes in PCCN.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

I was kind of hoping for suggestions that were not nursing/medical/healthcare

I will look at insurance companies again. there was nothing available locally

Md offices that would even want RN's ,want ones with "excellent IV skills" which I don't have d/t carpal tunnel/nerve loss from my prev. job.So that's out.Which also means I can't type 50 WPM either, and that leaves out telephonic /call center .

I find it very conflicting to teach a class to people whom I would NEVER recommend going into the health care field. Guess I'd have to think about that one. I don't mind teaching; have been told I was good at it.But to have someone learn a job so they can be abused is beyond me.I'd feel like a traitor

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Thanks for all your suggestions.

I was kind of hoping for suggestions that were not nursing/medical/healthcare

I will look at insurance companies again. there was nothing available locally

Md offices that would even want RN's ,want ones with "excellent IV skills" which I don't have d/t carpal tunnel/nerve loss from my prev. job.So that's out.Which also means I can't type 50 WPM either, and that leaves out telephonic /call center .

I find it very conflicting to teach a class to people whom I would NEVER recommend going into the health care field. Guess I'd have to think about that one. I don't mind teaching; have been told I was good at it.But to have someone learn a job so they can be abused is beyond me.I'd feel like a traitor

I wanted to address the bolded area:

You may have regretted being in healthcare; however, you may be teaching the next generation that can be game changers...they are many who do commit to nursing to have a voice, fairness and support many grass-roots proposals and are slowly changing things in many settings and contribute to the profession; if there weren't many that weren't, there wouldn't be a history of nursing or the changes in order to have nurses be in legislations, and CNOs who make a difference-I have worked with CNOs that really ensure that nurses have a voice, so my information may be colored, but I have mentors and worked with many positive game changers in my 15 years of healthcare.

Inspire those who can and possibly will make a difference. :yes:

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