Nurses—best non clinic positions?

[Anonymous]

Have done bedside, have done school nursing, have done community health—end up short-staffed and/or overworked, unable to take leave in every scenario. Pls recommend your case management, remote, outpatient, remote, etc jobs. Want to try another scenario.

[Anonymous]

Fellow RN here. I've done my share of bedside nursing in ICU, med-surg and got tired of it all. I work now in an outpatient oncology setting M-F, no weekends, paid holidays. It is a government position. It is fine, but not an ideal setting. What I like about this outpatient setting is that it is not a physical job at all, most patients are self care; and no nights/evenings hours. Ideally, I would love to work from home, but haven't found anything that would match my skills set. I have never worked as RN besides direct patient care. I work closely with case managers and honestly, I would be very stressed out just seeing what they do. Even though, they don't provide direct care, they have to deal with a lot of issues that patients have.

[Anonymous]

I work in school health administration and a great number of school nurses have left to WFH; one has a staff assignment at an eating disorders clinic and consults as
-needed.

Others have left for hospice, home health and county immunization program management. A few left to take in house training development positions.

[Anonymous]

School nurse here. Looks like many are leaving? Same situation.

[Anonymous]

I've only ever worked in-patient but always thought the M-F 9-5 clinics were the good gigs. I've heard some good things about school nursing too.

[Anonymous]

Not a nurse but are any of the nurses in doctors offices RNs? When I was younger it seemed that way but now they seem to be nurse assistants or the non-RN nurses.

[Anonymous]

What about reproductive clinics or psychiatric nursing? You can do the latter with loess serious mental health needs. Also not physical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a nurse but are any of the nurses in doctors offices RNs? When I was younger it seemed that way but now they seem to be nurse assistants or the non-RN nurses.

I'm interested in this as well. I'm also not a nurse but have a daughter in a nursing program in college now (so curious about career options) and it seems that in the doctors offices I visit, it's either a medical tech/assistant of some type, or a nurse practitioner. I rarely interact with an RN in a medical office.

[Anonymous]

My RN neighbor works in scheduling for surgery--does all the clinical questions and instructions. Completely remote.

[Anonymous]

My mom (older nurse near retirement age) enjoyed clinic work. Regular schedule and slower pace. But it depends on the clinic. Another older nurse relative really liked school nursing at a small school.

[Anonymous]

What about work with insurance companies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a nurse but are any of the nurses in doctors offices RNs? When I was younger it seemed that way but now they seem to be nurse assistants or the non-RN nurses.

I'm interested in this as well. I'm also not a nurse but have a daughter in a nursing program in college now (so curious about career options) and it seems that in the doctors offices I visit, it's either a medical tech/assistant of some type, or a nurse practitioner. I rarely interact with an RN in a medical office.

Some large pediatric and adult general practitioner practices will have 1 to 2 RNs that do triage on the phone to determine if sick patients need to come in for same day appointments.