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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.

What about work with insurance companies?

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.

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.