Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 12:51     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.


I work in cyber security and I can assure you we aren’t hiring nurses looking for a mid-career change without some additional certifications or frankly, crazy hackathon experience. It moves FAST and only the best can keep up.

Public health won’t pay as much as you want and case managers don’t get the same hours. I’d be a travel nurse if I were you. And I’m sorry about the rude patients - but I’d be realistic about that being a staffing issue. Patients are not getting appropriate care because nurses are overwhelmed. You are all making a lot of mistakes, understandably so, but are also unwilling to listen to patients. I’m pregnant and the number of times I’ve had unnecessary blood drawn because the nurse didn’t believe how far along I was when I told her I thought she’d miscalculated is astonishing. I’ve never been rude or honestly cared but it doesn’t make me think particularly highly of the profession. If it were higher stakes I’d be livid.

Prepandemic I was admitted to the hospital for several weeks and literally the nurses missed timing on every single dose. Half of them missed doses entirely. My vitals were not checked in 14 hours once which resulted in major additional complications. So, I’m sympathetic to the overwork but not to general incompetency in the industry.


What a great lesson in how to win friends and influence people. I'm guessing there are no poor performers in your profession?

You should be ashamed at yourself for this post.


You should be ashamed of yourself for advocating for nurses over patient care. If you’re overwhelmed, quit. That might force hospitals to stop accepting unvaccinated COVID patients as they should. But don’t risk people’s lives because you can’t be bothered to pay attention while blaming patients. Nurses are paid as much as they are because it’s a shitty job, literally. But don’t suffer from delusions of grandeur - you want to be respected like a physician, go to med school. Those are the true heroes of this pandemic.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 12:32     Subject: Re:Nurse looking for career change
I'm an ex-nurse who writes books.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 12:17     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.


I work in cyber security and I can assure you we aren’t hiring nurses looking for a mid-career change without some additional certifications or frankly, crazy hackathon experience. It moves FAST and only the best can keep up.

Public health won’t pay as much as you want and case managers don’t get the same hours. I’d be a travel nurse if I were you. And I’m sorry about the rude patients - but I’d be realistic about that being a staffing issue. Patients are not getting appropriate care because nurses are overwhelmed. You are all making a lot of mistakes, understandably so, but are also unwilling to listen to patients. I’m pregnant and the number of times I’ve had unnecessary blood drawn because the nurse didn’t believe how far along I was when I told her I thought she’d miscalculated is astonishing. I’ve never been rude or honestly cared but it doesn’t make me think particularly highly of the profession. If it were higher stakes I’d be livid.

Prepandemic I was admitted to the hospital for several weeks and literally the nurses missed timing on every single dose. Half of them missed doses entirely. My vitals were not checked in 14 hours once which resulted in major additional complications. So, I’m sympathetic to the overwork but not to general incompetency in the industry.


What a great lesson in how to win friends and influence people. I'm guessing there are no poor performers in your profession?

You should be ashamed at yourself for this post.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 10:52     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
If you actually enjoy data and coding stuff look into jobs under the umbrella of 'clinical informatics' or similar. Companies like epic, Athena, or locally, Privia (Im sure there are other examples that's just one I personally know of).
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 10:46     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
A nurse friend works remotely doing triage for a travel insurance company, seems very happy. Have another friend, nurse practitioner though, who does telehealth remotely.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 10:43     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.


I work in cyber security and I can assure you we aren’t hiring nurses looking for a mid-career change without some additional certifications or frankly, crazy hackathon experience. It moves FAST and only the best can keep up.

Public health won’t pay as much as you want and case managers don’t get the same hours. I’d be a travel nurse if I were you. And I’m sorry about the rude patients - but I’d be realistic about that being a staffing issue. Patients are not getting appropriate care because nurses are overwhelmed. You are all making a lot of mistakes, understandably so, but are also unwilling to listen to patients. I’m pregnant and the number of times I’ve had unnecessary blood drawn because the nurse didn’t believe how far along I was when I told her I thought she’d miscalculated is astonishing. I’ve never been rude or honestly cared but it doesn’t make me think particularly highly of the profession. If it were higher stakes I’d be livid.

Prepandemic I was admitted to the hospital for several weeks and literally the nurses missed timing on every single dose. Half of them missed doses entirely. My vitals were not checked in 14 hours once which resulted in major additional complications. So, I’m sympathetic to the overwork but not to general incompetency in the industry.
Anonymous
Post 12/27/2021 10:18     Subject: Re:Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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….


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. 😫


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.


Then be a nanny
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2021 15:24     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anyone suggest becoming a Care Manager? We hired one for my mother and 10 years later for my Dad. I think she charges $60 an hour and she manages the aides as well as dr appointments etc. With the baby boomers aging it should be a growing market.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2021 15:21     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.

Unless you live in CA, where they have unions and take COL into account.


CA also has lower patient to nurse ratios in icus so better workload and safety. My cousin is an icu nurse in CA.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 11:42     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:Public health! So many people have quit and funding is being beefed up!


what types of jobs are in public health?
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 11:38     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.

Unless you live in CA, where they have unions and take COL into account.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 11:36     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Public health! So many people have quit and funding is being beefed up!
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 11:01     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
Your pay is maxed out. BSNs don’t really make much more without an additional degree like MSN or something in IT.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 10:10     Subject: Re:Nurse looking for career change
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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….


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. 😫


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.


Thanks I’ll look for some of those jobs!
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2021 06:49     Subject: Nurse looking for career change
I hear they need teachers.