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What does pediatric nursing involve?

What jobs can you get from a nursing degree which don't involve contact with patients?

  • I am about to finish a nursing degree, I would like to know what options I have for work?

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    I can tell you what some American nurses do without patient contact. My ex's mother works as an infection control nurse. She helps develops policies to reduce the rates of infections for the hospital overall and rule whether the infections are hospital or community acquired. However, she got the job by her degree and being best friends with her boss. A lot of the other nurses do not respect her as she has no previous patient contact experience and don't view her as a true nurse. Some roles in the health department, but most of those will involve patient contact. There's also patient review nurses who work in quality assurance. Pharm reps who are usually BSN or higher nurses who go around and try to convince hospitals to sell their drugs or inform people about their drugs. Most of them require previous experience working with patients. You may not be able to get ahead without at least working a few years with patient contact.

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Surely the whole idea of nursing is to care for patients. Who would you "nurse" if you have no contact with patients. If you really don't want contact with patients, you would seem to have wasted your time.

Ed Fox

You're joking right? Why did you waste your time going to nursing school? Fresh out of schol you won't get a nursing job with no patient contact.Anything with no pt contact requires nursing experience first. Go apply at McDonalds.

Lori

As a new grad, there are pretty much no jobs where you won't have patient contact. If you want a job without patient contact, you'll have to do your time, get experience doing patient care, becoming a charge nurse to build up leadership skills, perhaps advance your education to a higher degree (MSN or above) because that is how you get jobs in nursing that do not involve patient care. Why did you choose nursing if you didn't want to do patient care AT ALL? I understand many nurses get burnt out and eventually get out of patient care, but it's unusual for a new grad to be not wanting to do the job already. Maybe you should scrap the whole nursing idea entirely and find a job that will suit your personality better.

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Opt for teaching line. As you know the medical terms, you can work in record room.

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