When you think about pursuing a career in nursing, do you imagine yourself in a hospital? Maybe a doctor’s office or specialized clinic? The healthcare industry is always adopting new technologies and methodologies, and so it’s no surprise that digital health services have become so widespread. Healthcare provider organizations, insurance companies, long-term care companies, and billing agencies are just a few places where practical nurses (PNs) can work remotely.
At Prism Career Institute, Practical Nursing (PN) students are prepared for the licensure exam to become PNs at three convenient campus locations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and West Atlantic City, NJ. Here are just a few of the job categories for PNs who want the opportunity to work from home.
1. Meeting Patients Digitally
Telehealth is how many patients receive healthcare every day. This is particularly helpful for residents of rural areas who travel long distances to reach medical offices, individuals who live with disabilities and have mobility issues, or people who need frequent medical check-ins. PNs can serve in these categories:
- Disease management
- Chronic care services
- Health coach
- Triage
- Patient advocacy
2.Collecting Patient Data
In today’s data-driven healthcare environments, patient information is used for research, to determine costs by insurance companies, and to find unmet medical needs in a community. Opportunities for PNs include:
- Telephone interviewers
- Quality improvement
- Clinical research
3. Call Centers
Digital technology enables PNs to handle call center duties from home. These duties can vary widely from talking with patients and determining an appropriate appointment or referral to coordinating medical care for individuals and investigating disease outbreaks. Call center positions for PNs:
- After-hours on-call services for physician groups
- Occupational health incident review
- Case management
- Public health/disease tracking and follow-up
4. Insurance Services
With the number of insurance companies and providers in the healthcare economy today, there are many possibilities for PNs who want to work from home. Nurses working with insurance services might interact with patients, but some positions mostly involve research and statistics. Here are some of the choices for PNs to work from home with insurance providers:
- Utilization management
- Care specialists
- Clinical reviewer
5. Coding and Billing
These systems are how payments are determined for healthcare services. Increasingly complicated and highly detailed codes are used to describe medical procedures and diagnoses. PNs might be interested in working with hospitals to ensure their coding is accurate for billing, or they may work with intermediary billing companies or insurance companies.
Find Career Flexibility with Prism Career Institute
As you can see, PNs have choices in the job market. If you want to work with patients hands-on, there are many opportunities throughout the healthcare industry. Medical clinics, hospitals, addiction centers, government agencies, community health centers, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities, and more all need PNs to work directly with patients. However, if you want to help patients virtually, there are a growing number of possibilities for PNs who work with digital technologies. Learn more about the flexible career paths available in the Practical Nursing program at Prism Career Institute. Talk to an admissions representative today!