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Couple of ideas - my wife has been a nurse/A.D. RN for 24 years or so - ER, head injury rehab, etc.
At one point she did some work with a specific group of head injury treatment facilities - would go to the hospital, meet the patient, do some type evaluation - think it was because she had a lot of concentration in head injuries.
She did go and get her paralegal cert and work as a Nurse Paralegal with a local defense law firm - large clients, Delta, Coke, etc. She would research the case and draft interrogatories that would really put the plantiffs attorney back on their heels - blew them away a lot of the time.
She did that for 4-5 years, until her Attorney retired, only one she wanted to work with, very nice guy.
She's now at an Urgent Care center, part of a large hospital here, that is 2 miles from the house. She is enjoying that.
Have you considered some aspects of Nursing that many never hear about. You can enter the design and build industry as an RN and work with hospital and medical center design. We have an RN that works as a facility designer. She started her own business when the hospital that she was working at asked for help. She found out that the market needed someone like her. In California we have a hospital building boom. We are building a new 325,000 square foot hospital that will be completed in February of 2015. Their is room for growth within the industry. You may be able to google nurse + design, build, construction, facility or some other term. One of our visiting faculty members from the Cal State University system told me about the program. It allows you to use your license for another field.
My best friend was a hospital critical care nurse for years. She finally left that job and worked briefly as a pharmacutical rep. She didn't care for it much and finally found a job working with a hospital clearing house for a better description where she audited insurance submissions to the hospital to make sure everything down to one last sponge or band-aid was paid for.
My sister was an RN and then went to law school. She completed only one year but that was enough for her to become a paralegal (of sorts). With her medical background, she doesnt work as an assistant to attorneys; instead, for the past 20+ years, she's worked as a consultant on medical lawsuits. It's always very stressful and requires that she can express herself and the facts of the case well in writing -- but she loves it and the pay has been unbelievable.
Recently the Dept of Justice posted a job opening for someone to research medical claims against the government; she applied and is got the job working contract for them. Again, her job involves a very stressful work schedule but she works alone. And the pay is awesome...more money than most attorneys make.
It wasnt easy to get into this field. She had friends in the legal and nursing fields who gave her work for a few years. Then, as her reputation grew, attorneys came looking for her and she was able to get contract work for years at a time with different law firms. She also relocated to Washington DC, where there are a lot of large law firms.
Case managment for Workers Comp claims, you can even do this from home. Or work for a school district, nurses have to sign off on most IEP's, for multiply impaired children, they may also have you do eye exams, referrals for hearing tests, some children may need catherters changed, or feeding with feeding tubes, and they need nurses for that.
My friend was a RN for a year and didn't feel challenged so she is now a NP and loves it. Doesn't have to deal with most of the issues RN's complain about as a NP.
been a RN for too many years..there sure hasn't been many avenues to follow after acute care..i would love to be a unit clerk or a pharmacy tech.. even tho the $$ would be much less..what's the price of sanity??
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