Non-Clinical Nursing Jobs

What comes to mind when you think of non-clinical nursing jobs? For me, I naturally start thinking about the nurses I personally know who work in various non-clinical settings. This includes:

• Healthcare education and communication companies
  
• Independent consulting
  
• Managed care organizations
• Disease management companies
• Electronic health records
• Consumer health IT
  
• Clinical research
  
• Pharma
• Biotech
• Medical device companies
• Legal medicine
• Public health and epidemiology
  
• Government health
• Professional organizations and societies
• Healthcare staffing

Wow, the list could go on and on. However, this is just a teaser. The bottom line is that there are countless non-clinical opportunities for nurses who want to leave clinical medicine and do something else.