Any work available for stay at home mums being a nurse?
Readers Question: I was just wondering if there was any work available for stay at home mums being a nurse? I have a 5 month old and don’t want to go back to work at the hospital.
Answer: It is important that we don’t stereotype ourselves when we stay home with our children, and choose to take on part-time work. There are many skills we have known as transferable skills; acquired from volunteer work, paid work and life experience. Being flexible is very important when choosing to work from home.
My personal experience has been there are jobs for people with medical skills, that can be used in call centre work (from home – inbound and outbound) that requires a certain level of knowledge as they are dealing with doctors, therapists and specialists. If you have typing skills you could consider extending your skills with a medical typists course to become a transcriptionist. This is a very busy field.
Other roles that come to mind are school nurse, medical receptionist, medical centre nurse, community nurse, medical blog writer, and running first aid courses. I hope this gives you some food for thought.
Leigh
