What else can an RN do besides clinical nursing?

elementary school nurse? Do they still have them? Corporate nurse? Teacher? Psychiatric social worker?

What a cowardly whore. To back out of a career like this during Corona.

Maybe school nurse. She's all into Bernie and not a company gal at all, so she would be miserable with a corporation or pharmaceutical. I think psychiatric social workers must have an MSW and she has a BA and an RN.

Insurance case management.

Fuck you, R2. Corona victims do not find themselves in Hospice care. Learn to read dumbass.

Oh, I think she would be fired the first day with an insurance company.

Call girl.

r5, Fuck you cunt. You don't know me or what I represent. Great way to leave the medical community during an international medical crisis. Yousa bitch and so is yo friend.

R2 is shaming someone for career burnout after they worked as a HOSPICE NURSE for 12 years! I bet you couldn't even pass the nursing exams.

Ambulatory practice nurse? She would still be working with patients, but on a much more controlled schedule and also less acute. Does she have any expertise in a particular area of nursing? That would help in getting a decent job in a physician outpatient practice.

Research nurse? A lot of academic medical centers, drug companies and the third-party companies that manage drug trials for Big Pharma hire nurses to manage their clinical research protocols.

Why not a nurse in a doctor's office or group office?

Private duty? Nursing instructor? Consultant?

There are also concierge services that make house calls to hung over people and hook them up to electrolyte IVs to rehydrate. A guy I know hired one the day after a sick bachelor party to administer some saline/electrolyte/vitamin bags. I don’t know if there needs to be an actual doctor to “prescribe” this.

She could sign up for a nurse to treat corona patients, if they are licensed.

I work for the state as a nurse surveyor for hospitals, SNFs, ESRD dialysis centers. We do federal government work also. Also investigate complaints and abuse cases.

We’re investigators first and nurses in background only, i. e. We don’t use our licenses.

Telephone triage nurse and or case management.

She could start in the clinical setting in ambulatory care and then to telephone triage/Advice nurse. But she needs good computer skills because there is a lot of charting and the faster you can chart (because of the number of patients you're dealing with), the better.

I am doing case management of diabetes patients but you have to show skill and critical thinking because you're doing educating and adjusting their medications over the phone. Some places require BSN. Not every RN can do that.

So many interesting ideas here.

Management/Administration is a popular move for Nurse-Burnouts.

My sister, when she got burnt-out being an RN moved into hospital administration and loves it.

How about colonoscopy nurse? Seems pretty low stress.

A lot of nurses work in hospital administration; I second R18’s recommendation.

She can teach student nurses at a community college or college.

Telephone nurse triage or some type of nurse educator.

I'm in a Masters program for adult education. One of my fellow students is a nurse. She's worked at a VA hospital, and now she trains other nurses.

Hospice is tough, because you will lose every single patient. I wonder if it would be easier to work for a small general practitioner. Or maybe a specialist (obgyn, cardiologist). Record patients' vitals and take their info in preparation for their visit with the doctor.

Can’t believe this is even a question. R4 and r17 nailed it. Lots of good admin jobs for nurses later in life when they get sick of working on the floor.

Teaching is an option too but doesn’t pay as well.

I burnt out on hospice after 8 years. Not because of the patients, though families can be rough. But rather because of management, who told me I wasn’t going “fast enough.”

All they were interested in was money.

So I left the “business,” let my nursing license lapse, and moved to Florida, which I could afford. and retired.

And now this.

It’s peculiarly shameful of hateful cunts here to guilt an obviously overworked nurse for not wanting to work herself to death.

What the fuck do you know?

I don't think doing insurance work will be less stressful. If you've spent your career working with your hands and moving about freely, do you really want to sit on your butt at a desk all day?

Nurses can join me (burned out physician) and work for private short term/long term disability review companies. By federal law, a disability appeal must be performed by a MD, but nurses do the initial clinical review.

And it can be stressful, though, but no worries about malpractice lawsuits or hostile patient/family being able to verbally/physically assault you.

People just think they are saints r25 and are oblivious to how nurses are treated. Dickhead doctors, ungrateful patients, and trash family members. Of course, not everyone is like that, but and the end of the day the jerks are the ones who stick with you.

I went into nursing as a second career and two years in I’m already feeling burnt out. It’s not a profession for the faint of heart, that’s for sure.

Become a sex worker. I’m 42 and make much more turning tricks than I did in that shitty nursing home.

Public health?

Telehealth. Answer health-related calls from seniors all day. It's a thing in Canada.

A friend of mine got burned out from working as an ICU nurse after 10 years. She now works as a home nurse for high level quadriplegics.

Insurance work is great. It's easy to find a job working from home too.

R33, ICU is supposed to be the highest-level stress position for a nurse. Amazing to last that long.

I’m a teacher, and school nurses in my district are often split between - or among - different schools. Ours covers five and we only see her once a week. I am not sure I’d recommend that for someone looking to de-stress.

I don’t even know what nursing is going to look like in the coming months in the US. There will be demand and it will be harder than ever before.

I have a few nurse friends who manage to pick up side jobs teaching. Some have become full-time clinical instructors.

The link at R14 for the website allnurses.com is a great resource. I would post the same question to one of their message boards. There’s a lot of helpful RNs on there. Good luck!

RN’s aren’t interchangeable with social workers. One can become an RN with two years of schooling. A psychiatric social worker has a master’s and clinical training.

An RN can go into discharge planning, a nurse educator (think diabetes), a telemedicine nurse, or working for an insurance company.

There are locum tenens doctors and nurses and agencies that place them. Or industrial nurses who work in manufacturing plants.

Nurse educator or private nurse for in-home care.

Many counties used to hire RNs and train them as the grunt social workers. Yes it's two different educations but RNs could do things social workers could not, and vice versa. There was a time a graduate with a Bachelor degree in nursing was likely to be more together than one with a Bachelor in social work. And yes they all need to go on to a Masters to move up.

Wet nurse.

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Some law firms have nurses on staff, especially medical malpractice related firms. Boards of Nursing usually have former nurses working there.

Tell her if she wears a nurse uniform, she gets an extra $50.

So you're "asking for a friend" OP?

I call SHENANIGANS ........ You're asking for yourself.

InstaCart needs workers.

You could deliver their groceries, and then take their temp.You'd make a fortune.

Porn. You could also "work" the medical conventions.

Not now but for future reference, cruise ships hire nurses. The doctor switched out every week but the nurse signed on for several months.

There's a cruise ship circling the coast of Florida that could use a few good men.

Tell that cowardly whore of yours OP to go back to school and get a different job. She should not be in the field of helping people if she doesn't want or cant help people. And before you say what do I know, my mother, 3 sisters, 5 aunts are all nurses and none of them sound like your whiny cunty friend. If you want to talk stress, 2 of them are ER nurses, everyone they see every day could die on them or come in bleeding profusely about to die. They all love their jobs, they all knew going into it would be a challenge, and unlike your friend, they are the most selfless people I have ever met.

I also disagree with the other posts, she should not go into admin or insurance. They already have a lot of heartless cunts in that field from what I know and she sounds like she is the kind of person that would be the same. Your friend would soon get tired and "burnt out" with people bothering her for help. She needs to start over in a different field entirely.

Itinerant Phlebotomist? Many can set their own hours.