Side Hustles For A Registered Nurse

A telehealth nurse provides patient care and support remotely via multiple telecommunication channels such as email, phone, text, messaging, and video conferencing.

Telehealth traditionally helped provide critical health care support and advice to patients in remote areas who may not have access to proper health facilities.

The covid pandemic and social distancing requirements brought about an exponential growth in the telehealth field. Telehealth has become an accepted and preferred means to communicate between health care providers and patients.

What this means to you as a registered nurse is an opportunity to earn side hustle income by working additional hours as a telehealth nurse.

You can work from home, work any day or hour of the week, and for as many hours as you want.

Earnings - Based on your experience, and specialization in the health industry, you can earn between $30/hour to more than $200/hour.

There is a shortage of qualified nurses and as a result there is a huge demand for their need.

Health care facilities are constantly looking out for qualified registered nurses who can fill in hours that could not be worked upon by their regular full time nurses.

What this means to you as a registered nurse is an opportunity to earn side hustle income by working these extra hours or shifts as and when you have time.

Earnings - Based on your experience, and specialization in the health industry, you can earn between $50/hour to more than $200/hour.

The wellness revolution began a few years back and is just the beginning. People want to lead a lifestyle that will enhance their physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Nurse health coaching is a relatively newer field in the wellness space, where qualified nurses utilize their health care knowledge and skills, and combine them with holistic lifestyle coaching - to provide a customized and optimum lifestyle plan to clients.

As a registered nurse you can earn side hustle income by working as a nurse health coach part-time.

You can tie up with health care facilities and health insurance companies to offer your services as a health coach. You can market yourself as independent health coach and gain your own clients.

As you gain clients, you can setup your own part-time hours as well as setup your own pay rates.

Long Term - Over time this side hustle has the potential to earn as much or even more than your full time pay. At that time you can determine if you want to make this as your full time job.

You have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business.

Caregivers help elderly, sick, injured, and disabled with their daily activities at their home. This includes helping them bathe, get dressed, cook meals, etc.

Caregivers need not be qualified as nurses. Hence caregivers depend on qualified nurses for certain health care needs, treatments, and providing medications for the people that they provide the care for.

Caregivers who are qualified nurses are in high demand, since they can take care of the patients health and medication needs in addition to the care giving tasks.

As a registered nurse you can earn side hustle income by working a part-time caregiver.

You can choose what kind of people you can take care of - elderly, injured, children with disabilities etc. based on your nursing qualification.

You can find companies that hire freelance caregivers in your area, or you can network and market your self as a caregiver with specific nursing qualifications.

Hospitals, Health care facilities, Insurance companies, Medical device companies, Pharmaceutical companies, etc. need content writers, knowledgeable in health care and medicine to write for their website, blogs, publications, journals, etc.

Similarly people maintaining independent health and wellness website and blogs are consistently looking for content writers who can write detailed articles on health and wellness specific topics.

As a registered nurse, you can earn side hustle income by becoming a part-time content writer

You can find content writing companies that hire freelance content writers specifically having knowledge and qualification in the health industry.

You can also network and market your content writing gig, highlighting on your nursing and health industry experience.

Long Term - Over time this side hustle has the potential to earn as much or even more than your full time pay. At that time you can determine if you want to make this as your full time job.

You have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business.

Hospitals and health-care facilities use the services of medical transcriptionists to convert voice recordings of physicians and health care practitioners to written reports and documents.

Medical transcriptionists do not require a nursing or medical degree or qualification, but they need a medical transcriptionist certificate or associate degree.

As a registered nurse, you can earn side hustle income by becoming a part-time medical transcriptionist.

You can find medical transcription companies that hire freelance medical transcriptionists specifically having knowledge and qualification in the health industry.

You can also network and market your medical transcription side gig with hospitals and health-care providers, highlighting on your nursing and health industry experience.

Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own medical transcriptionists.