Where can an LPN work besides in a hospital or clinic?

[dsidney]

Hello All...I am new to the site and will be pursuing a nursing career so I have lots of generals to take. I eventually want to become an RN (Haven't been in school in years over 15 years) I just wanted to know where can LPN's work without being in a clinical setting. I like deskwork myself. Does anyone have ideas on this? I know I will have to work clinical for a while to get my feet wet and get experience, but where can i go from there if I like doing paperwork? I have heard of some nurses working with insurance companies doing referrals and all. Just not sure.

Please give me insight!

Thanks:loveya:

[matilda123]

if you like paperwork and desk work, why go through nursing school?Maybe you should consider other fields, where desk and paperwork dominate.

good luck

[sunray12]

if you like paperwork and desk work, why go through nursing school?Maybe you should consider other fields, where desk and paperwork dominate.

good luck

I'm not a fan of desk work so I agree. :) But to answer OP's question most office positions for nurses require the RN and typically they want experienced RN's - usually you can't go from nursing school right into a nursing desk job. So if you want to do desk work then you will have to do the LPN to RN route.

If you want to be in health care but only want to do desk work you might look into something like Health Information Management instead.