Nurse looking for career change
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Anonymous
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As stated in the title, I am a nurse looking for a career change. The pay sucks unless you are a traveling nurse. $40-$45 an hour in the DC area while doing backbreaking work isn’t cutting it anymore.
I have a bachelors, am great with computers- looking for a job that doesn’t require a new degree and pays better than my current job. It doesn’t have to be in the medical field. I’m open to any suggestions. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| Was there anything you liked about nursing? Give us some info about parts of the job that appealed to you. |
Anonymous
| Go to the commercial side of Healthcare. I worked for BioMed Pharma and PBM. Your credentials are excellent to get in the door, make low six figures to start plus bonus and stock, and climb up to Clinical VP, Regional Sales Manager, Clinical Account Executive, you could easily bring home 300K+. Look at companies like J&J, Smith Nephew, BD, Cigna, etc…. |
Anonymous
| Go to work for a lawyers office. Gathering and reading medical records and explaining them to in language for laypeople is sought after I med mal firms or insurance defense shops. |
Anonymous
| School nurse? |
Anonymous
| Are you in DC area? Can you look for work with one of the healthcare trade associations or a nurses' union? |
Anonymous
| School RN lol We are exhausted and slammed with Covid testing and sending sick kids home and now flu too. Looking for another career as well |
Anonymous
| Working for health insurance companies as a nurse advisor for patients, for the FDA, and for the pharma companies in the area . |
Anonymous
| There are nurses who basically are the Epic liaison for a hospital system (or whatever electronic medical record is for your campus.) one name for them is clinical applications analyst. |
Anonymous
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I enjoy research, data analysis, science, medicine, and I enjoy working with patients (that are not physically or verbally abusive). However, I can deal with difficult people to an extent and I’m a hard worker. If I could re do my career I would be an intelligence analyst, FBI, or do something with computers (maybe cyber security?)
As I nurse I enjoy working with most patients, ICU or med surg was exciting to me but the workload is too much and the pay generally sucks. Many of my coworkers have ended up with back surgery and other chronic injuries. The occupational hazards are awful- there’s not enough patient lifts, never get lunch breaks, etc Yes I work in the DC area The one thing I despise is public speaking with huge audiences but I could manage if needed. I will look into working with big pharma. If a school nurse is decently paid I could do that as well |
Anonymous
Very few people do public speaking to huge audiences |
Anonymous
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Op here- no sure if this changes your definition of large audience but I consider 20 plus a large audience
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Anonymous
Another nurse here. What kind of jobs get you in the door? Agree that nursing pay in the DC area sucks. I could make more money as a nanny than as an ICU nurse. 😫 |
Anonymous
This is PP. Look for clinical educator, account manager (in many cases, you’d be talking to other nurses), or research roles. I’m in HR, we would hire lots of you guys you have more clinical cred than the division I athletes who went the sports medicine route. |
Anonymous
No way in hell a school nurse makes anywhere near $40-$45 an hour. I guess if she has a rich husband and doesn’t really need to work… |