Jobs beside bedside nursing

1. Educator in Nursing

This is one of the lowest-stress nursing positions accessible. While the duty of training future generations of nurses is enormous, the work atmosphere is much more relaxed, and the hours are fair. Nurse educators are most often found at universities, colleges, and hospitals. Their primary responsibility is to provide prospective nurses with training and expertise based on their own clinical experience. A nurse educator's compensation is greater than that of an RN. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics from 2018, the median annual pay for nursing instructors was $81,350. So, if you like teaching and want a less stressful work, you should consider earning your MSN degree, since one of the requirements for becoming a nurse educator is a master's degree or higher. Now is an exceptionally opportune moment to become a nurse educator since the nursing faculty deficit is one of the key causes of the present acute nursing shortage in the United States, thus thousands more educators are required.

2. Summer Camp Nurse/School Nurse

If you like working with children, this might be the ideal chance for you. Schools must always have a medically qualified professional on staff, and these jobs are often filled by registered nurses. Their primary role is to provide basic care, such as first aid for minor injuries and medicine administration on a regular basis. One of the most significant advantages of working as a school nurse is that you get to experience all of the benefits of working in an educational atmosphere. As a result, this employment provides enough vacation time and consistent working hours. It is worth noting that most schools only employ one nurse, so you will most likely be working alone. Summer camp nurses do the same functions as school nurses, with the exception of the work setting. Many children attend summer camps, and for their safety, nurses are on hand to ensure that their vacation is free of health-threatening occurrences.

3. Administrator of Nurses

Leadership positions often need greater freedom and flexibility. Nurse administrators continue to work in hospitals, but they are not subjected to the everyday stress of interacting with patients and delivering bedside care. Their responsibilities include managing patient and employee data, coordinating medical services, developing timetables, performing performance evaluations, and budget planning. Nurse administrators are often filled by nurses with previous clinical experience since influencing nursing policy and practices requires extensive inside knowledge. Taking on this kind of leadership job is not without its obstacles, but if you're seeking for a change of pace, this might be the ideal career path for you.

4.Nurse in Public Health

This is another fantastic possibility for nurses who are overworked in hospital settings and wish to escape the rush that surrounds direct patient care as much as possible. Public health nurses provide treatment to whole communities and groups rather than just individuals. Their primary purpose is to promote the health of the community and provide access to treatment. As a public health care nurse, your professional responsibilities would include informing and educating people about disease transmission, prevention, and treatment, designing and implementing health education campaigns, monitoring health trends, and identifying health risk factors specific to individual communities. Despite being under substantially less stress than their fellow RNs, public health nurses play an important role. They don't sit about waiting for the patient to come to them. Instead, public health nurses visit their patients in an effort to address the underlying problem rather than the symptom.

5. Nurse Investigator

If you'd exchange your registered nursing job for one centered on academics and research, you may be a nurse researcher. Nurse researchers often work at universities, colleges, or research centers, thus they have little patient contact. If you choose this job, your major aim will be to enhance the status of the healthcare system through researching illnesses, healthy lifestyles, and various medical treatment results. Research is not an easy profession, but it is less stressful than the alternative. In addition, researching elements of health, sickness, and healthcare, as well as increasing patient care, is a fantastic incentive to wake up in the morning.

6. Informatics Nurse

Nurses who find interacting with patients difficult and working with computers far less so couldn't be in a better position. Your primary aim as a nurse informaticist will be to enhance patient outcomes by preserving and improving medical data and systems. You will be the link between IT experts and nurses, and a large part of your work will be utilizing analytics to have a long-term influence on patients. This profession takes a high degree of technical competence, but your efforts will eventually assist enhance both the quality and the speed of treatment.

7.Nurse Case Management

This is the position for nurses who do not want to quit patient care but want a more concentrated and personalised approach to the support they provide. Case management nurses are the professionals who deal with patients over longer periods of time, managing their patients' long-term care plans. In this position, you will be in charge of persons who need continuing medical care (such as HIV/AIDS or cancer patients). While the profession still requires direct patient care, the unpredictability is reduced as you learn to know your patients and get acquainted with the nuances of their condition. In addition, the fact that case manager nurses concentrate on a small number of patients rather than serving as many individuals as possible in a short period of time is a refreshing change of pace.

8.Home Health Nurse 

If it's not working with patients that you find difficult, but rather the hospital setting, you may want to consider transitioning from an RN to a home health nurse. This work mainly entails giving care to patients in their homes, and a home health nurse's responsibilities range from dispensing medicine and monitoring vital signs to aiding with everyday routines such as washing or shaving. Registered nurses in this profession are able to concentrate their attention on a single (or very few) patients, ensuring that the quality of treatment meets the highest standards.

9. Clinician

The primary distinction between standard RNs and clinic nurses is that the latter operate in clinics rather than hospitals. Clinics are smaller and often operate on an appointment basis, making the nurse's job less stressful since the flow of patients is largely consistent, allowing them to provide treatment to one patient at a time in an organized way. In addition, nurses who work in clinics, generalist physician's offices, pediatric offices, and other settings have a broad notion of the workload they might anticipate on a daily basis. Because clinics do not keep patients overnight, nurses have more consistent working hours. As a clinic nurse, you'll need to be an expert at multitasking because your job description will include a variety of activities, such as assessing patients and administering medical tests, but also responding to patient messages, performing telephone triage, and educating patients on various health topics (healthy diet, diabetic living, etc.)

10.Occupational Health Nurse 

This is another another fantastic possibility for nurses seeking a less stressful employment outside of hospital or clinic settings, as well as a flexible work schedule. Occupational health nurses are in charge of corporate settings and are responsible for implementing business health and safety strategies. Another important role for occupational health nurses is to educate workers about living healthier lives and preventing job-related injuries. They also monitor workers who have been wounded on the job, help with their rehabilitation, and give emergency treatment to injured workers who are on the job. Aside from exposing workers to the requirements of a safe working environment, you will be required in your role to discover methods to reduce the costs of disability claims or other associated expenditures for the organization for which you work.