Working From Home?

[DouglasC]

I have been a RN for past 7 years working first in a county jail for 3 years, then long-term care as floor nurse for 2 years and for past 2 years as a RCM at long-term care. I now find myself suffering with a broken ankle for past 8 months that never healed right and now I must have surgery to fix it. In short my floor nursing\standing\walking days are over. I have taken a medical retirement through SSI. I would like to continue working as a RN on a part time basis. I would prefer a work from home position but really have no idea what to look for or where to look. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Boo hoo. A broken ankle. You state you have not had the surgery, but your "floor nursing\standing\walking days are over." ? Does not compute.

I had a broken ankle, required 2 surgeries... I walk just fine ..can perform any nursing duties.

[ahs2015]

Wow, your comment was incredibly rude and uncalled for. If you have no advice to offer or cannot answer the OP's question then there's no need to comment.

OP, I have heard many of the larger insurance companies will hire nurses to work from home as a resource for plan members. My insurance company has a specific telephone number to "Ask a Nurse" questions related to medical issues. Try looking at some of the larger insurance companies to see if there are openings. Best of luck.

[HopefulSRNA1234]

Sorry the person above was so harsh. This must be a pretty tough time for you. Since I'm not in your shoes I'll take your word for it that floor nursing isn't gonna work out for you anymore and stick to what you came here for: advice on other positions

I haven't been and RN for long but have worked in healthcare for about 10 years. Have you thought about other ways to use your nursing and healthcare background? For example, I used to work in clinical research and we were always looking for clinical research associates with rn backgrounds to monitor drug studies (it's called clinical research associate). It requires travel but you work from home and travel to sites where you work in an office and monitor/do QA for drug trials. It's a great career with a lot of opportunity but if that's not for you I would suggest thinking outside the box. You could perhaps get into policy, education, or research. You could also work with insurance companies to review medical claims or perhaps legal review of medical cases. Working strictly at home

May be tough but I'm sure you could find an office job with opportunity to work from home on some days.

Hope this was helpful and please ignore the nasty comment above!!

[DouglasC]

Thanks for the reply and idea on the insurance job. They are going to place screws and plate since the cartledge is gone from walking on it when it was supposed to be healed. It's going to fuse so walking is going to be a problem for some time. Thanks again

[DouglasC]

Thanks for the idea "clinical research associate" would never have thought of that.