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What else could I do with a nursing degree?
If you like medicine but don’t like patients puking on you, become a phone nurse.
What is that?
A lot of health insurance companies set up nursing lines. Patients call a nurse and get
advice instead of rushing to the ER and racking up high medical bills.
They still might end up in the ER.
But then they’ve had a professional medical opinion, instead of going to the ER for minor
stuff.
What’s another option?
If you have experience or a master’s degree or both, you could become a nursing instructor.
They make a lot of money teaching others who want to be nurses.
I don’t have that much experience.
So go to the local tech college and teach phlebotomy and medical assisting.
I heard I could go into administration.
There are a lot of administrators and people who want to be one. But you could move to
admissions.
Or medical records management.
You’re guaranteed a job if you can handle electronic medical records, especially if
you can convert old paper records into electronic health records as was mandated by Obamacare.
Or I could work as an Obamacare enrollment agent.
You’d certainly be more qualified than most of their agents. They let felons and people
with a weekend of training sit down and sign people up for health insurance.
That’s an open door for fraud.
And at least you’ve got people skills.
What else could I do?
You could go into psych nursing. Supervising the mentally ill and giving them medication
is sometimes less stressful than being puked, peed and pooped on.
Then I get to meet Napoleon, Jesus and vampires on a regular basis, while worrying if I’d
get knifed.
People in the mental hospital shouldn’t have weapons. Though you might get screamed
at by someone who thinks you or they are someone else.
What else could I do?
Get paid a lot to work as a companion to the elderly.
That’s too close to working in the morgue.
So become a forensic nurse. That’s exciting.
You watch too much CSI.