Jobs are updated within 60 days, and every posting leads to a direct employer. Increasingly, a wide array of other job opportunities and careers are opening for those with a nursing background. Part of her job these days as national director of healthcare staffing for Kelly Services, the giant Troy, Michigan-based, employment and temp staffing agency, is to help place nurses in nursing and other jobs looking for someone with a nursing background. For instance, pharmaceutical firms that conduct clinical drug trials and evaluations are constantly on the lookout for professionals with a nursing background, she notes.
Occupational health is another hot alternative career option for nurses.
Today's plant nurse does more than pass out aspirins or respond when someone on the shop floor has a heart attack. It also means monitoring equipment for health and safety factors, keeping track of OSHA regulations, and administering hearing and other medical tests to employees. Some other job possibilities for nurses include things like case management, coding and reimbursement, compliance, disease management, auditing, or consulting with a firm specializing in healthcare issues. Even now, nearly 20 years after she first decided to become a nurse in high school, helping people is still the defining theme in Guard's professional life. No longer working as a hospital nurse, she's taken her nursing experience and education to create a successful independent practice in psychological counseling and body psychotherapy.