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22 Best Work at Home Jobs for Nurses

Author: Holly Reisem Hanna

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Are you looking for remote nursing jobs? Would you like to leave the nursing profession altogether? Then keep reading! I have a massive list of work at home jobs for nurses, as well as alternative career paths you can take.

When I signed up for nursing school, I knew I wanted to work in a clinical environment. But after working a grueling year at a pediatric hospital, I started to look for other opportunities. As I began searching for something non-clinical, I was amazed at the possibilities available to nurses.

Over the years, I’ve worked in a wide variety of nursing jobs, from prior authorization and medical record review for Medicaid to clinical research; in fact, that’s one of the great things about nursing, its versatility.

Oh, and did I mention nurses are in high demand?!

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for registered nurses is expected to grow by 6% between 2022 and 2032. However, I expect that this rate is a little higher than predicted. Nurses also earn an average salary of $81,220 annually.

If you’re looking to ditch direct patient care and your commute, here are some of the best work at home jobs for nurses!

Work at Home Jobs For Nurses with an Advanced Degree

If you have a master’s degree or doctorate in nursing, or you’re a nurse practitioner, there are many opportunities for you in the teaching field.

1. Online Nursing Faculty

If you have an MSN or a Ph.D. in nursing, you can teach online nursing classes to college students. To teach BSN coursework, you’ll need your MSN, and to teach master’s level nursing classes, you’ll need your Ph.D. To find the remote work opportunities on these sites search the keywords: remote nurse.

2. Nursing Evaluator

If you have an MSN degree, you can grade nursing students’ academic submissions. Western Governors University hires for this position.

If You Have You Have an RN License

3. Telephonic Nurse Case Manager

Case management is probably the most well-known work-at-home nursing job. As a case manager, you’ll coordinate care for patients, ensuring that they receive the appropriate treatments, resources, and referrals to have a successful outcome.

4. Online Nursing Educator or Health Coach

These positions usually require a bachelor’s degree, along with an RN or RD (registered dietitian) license. As a nurse educator, you’ll work with patients to ensure proper disease understanding, signs and symptoms to watch for, care, routines, and resources. Common educational topics include diabetes, hemophilia, fertility, transplants, infusion regimens, and overall health and wellness.

5. Freelance Nurse Writer

Nursing writers write content for test prep courses, instructional manuals, and training materials, as well as articles and blog posts. If you’re interested in this sort of work, other terms to search for are nurse certification writers, nurse research writers, learning development writers, and medical writers.

6. Telephone Triage Nurse

In this role, the nurse performs screening calls to determine the appropriate path of care for patients. Sometimes called care advisor RNs, telephonic triage nurses, telemedicine nurses, and telehealth nurses.

7. RN Health Insurance Company Jobs

In this role, you will review medical records to ensure that the code billed was appropriate for the services rendered. These positions require some technical writing skills, as you will contact providers for additional information and denial of payment notices. Other keywords to search for if you’re interested in this position are concurrent review RN, clinical appeals nurse, RN appeals writer, review nurse, and surveillance and utilization review nurse.

8. Virtual Clinical Research Associate (CRA)

Clinical research associates oversee all aspects of clinical trials, from recruiting and monitoring to budgeting, reporting, and ensuring protocols are followed. These work at home jobs for nurses require a bachelor’s degree, an associate’s degree in nursing, emergency medical technician (EMT), or experience as a clinical research coordinator (CRC). From my experience, the majority of these positions are home-based, but they do require some travel.

9. Nurse Consultant

Nurse consultants use their nursing expertise to consult, advise, and make recommendations to health insurance companies, hospitals, and clinics. Often, these nurses conduct research on medical records, treatments, and claims information. For these positions, you’ll need previous clinical experience, excellent communication skills, and knowledge of Microsoft Office. Many positions will require direct experience in utilization review or processing disability or workers’ compensation claims.

To find these work at home jobs for nurses, explore the following companies: 

Work at Home Nursing Jobs for RNs, LPNs, or LVNs

10. Remote Quality Improvement Nurse

As a quality improvement nurse, you will review hospitals’ nursing record documentation for completeness, accuracy, and appropriate level coding. These positions usually contain a teaching element, where the nurse educates the staff on the importance of proper documentation and coding practices. Typically requires a fair amount of travel; on some job postings, it’s 70-80% travel time. If you’re interested in applying for this position, also search the keywords clinical documentation improvement specialist, data abstractor, and nurse consultant.

11. Work at Home Jobs for Nurses With an LPN or LVN License

The majority of work at home jobs for nurses require an RN license, but I was able to find some companies that hire remote LVNs and LPNs. The companies and types of openings I’ve seen in the past are listed below. These companies may have other remote opportunities for LVNs and LPNs, so you’ll want to do a deep dive into their job openings.

12. Part-Time Work at Home Jobs for Nurses

While most work at home jobs for nurses are for full-time work, I was able to find some companies that hire nurses for part-time hours.

Spin Your Nursing Knowledge Into a New Career

13. Virtual Healthcare Recruiter

In this position, you’ll search for and screen candidates for various healthcare positions. Most of these positions require a bachelor’s degree with a healthcare background. Also, search for the keyword nurse recruiter, RN recruiter, healthcare recruiter, or medical recruiter.

14. Clinical Sales Specialist

As a sales representative, you will work with doctors, nurses, case managers, and other healthcare professionals in clinical settings to educate them on healthcare products, services, medications, and programs. Most sales positions offer a base salary with a commission on sales or sign-ups. Many sales positions require overnight travel, usually about 50% of the time; you will work from home in the other portion. Additional terms to search for are healthcare sales rep, clinical marketing manager, and clinical sales representative.

15. Become Healthcare Administrator

If you enjoy organization, shaping policy, and interacting with the various members of the clinical team, working remotely as a healthcare administrator might be your calling. Most healthcare administrators will need a bachelor’s degree and experience in a clinical setting. Often these positions will require a limited amount of travel to sites to conduct reviews, audits, and training. If this sounds appealing, also search for the keywords manager of clinical health services, clinical administrator, primary nurse case administrator, and clinical research administrator.

16. Informatics Nurse

In this specialty, you’ll combine your nursing knowledge with technology and data to improve nursing care and patient outcomes. For these work from home nursing jobs, you’ll need your RN license, a bachelor’s degree, and sometimes a master of science degree in health informatics. You’ll likely need to complete a certificate program in informatics nursing as well. According to Payscale.com, informatics nurses earn $83,780 annually. You can search for this position using the terms research nurse, cross reference specialist, clinical informatics analyst, and health informaticist. Healthcare facilities, hospitals, electronic medical record companies, and universities often hire for these positions. 

To find these work at home nursing jobs, explore the following companies:

Legal nurse consultants usually work independently as independent contractors, assisting attorneys with cases involving medical claims. You may need additional training for this position, although some nurses I’ve talked to said that they were able to break into the field without any additional training.

If you’re interested in taking a course, the one I’m familiar with is Vickie Milazzo’s (because I’ve received her brochures in the mail). Even if you don’t take her training, her website has a lot of great information on how to get clients, how much you can earn, as well as success stories.

If you’re interested in this career, also check out Alice Adam’s story — it has lots of useful information about the industry.

Alternative At-Home Career Paths for Nurses

18. Nurse Turned Author and Life Coach

You can also take your nursing knowledge and spin it into a whole new career by starting a business. That’s just what Elizabeth Irvine did. Once a pediatric nurse, Elizabeth now runs a business where she educates and empowers women through meditation, coaching sessions, inspirational books, and soul-full workshops and retreats. You can check out her story here. If coaching sounds appealing, here is more information on how to pursue this career.

19. Nurse Turned Blogger

If you’d told me I would be running a blogging business from home, I would have said you’re crazy! But here I am. After unhappily working in the nursing field for five years, I decided to become a full-time stay-at-home mom, which launched my search for online jobs and subsequent action of starting this blog. I’ve been running a blogging business for 14 years now, and I couldn’t be happier!

If you’re curious about my blogging journey, you can read it here.

And if you’d like to start your own blog from home, I have a step-by-step tutorial here to get you started.

Holly Hanna of The Work at Home Woman

20. Nurse Turned Computer Programmer

Like many nurses, Nadia Copeland loved her job and the people she worked with, but she was tired of how budget concerns affected patient care, and her health was suffering due to the overall stress of her job. After quitting her nursing job, Nadia looked into LaunchCode’s CoderGirl Program at her husband’s urging.

Not only was Nadia good at coding, but she enjoyed the challenge. Nadia says, “I’m grateful for what nursing taught me, but I’m so much happier in my current role and industry, and I’m looking forward to becoming as seasoned in computer programming as I was at providing health care.”

21. Nurse Turned Medical Coder and Biller

Tricia Mitchell decided to leave bedside nursing because she knew her nighttime hours weren’t compatible with having a family. She stumbled upon an article on Dave Ramsey’s website about medical coding and billing training through CareerStep. Being a self-paced, online program and a good career alternative to nursing, Tricia decided to make the leap. Today, Tricia works full-time as a remote medical biller and coder while also being a stay-at-home mom. To learn more about remote medical coding and billing, check out this article.

22. Nurse Turned Personal Concierge

After working as a registered nurse for many years, Kelly Schaefer decided to take her organizational skills and turn them into a business, helping others manage their daily errands and tasks. Besides running her personal concierge business, Task Complete, Kelly also teaches others how to break into the field and increase their profits. If you’re interested in learning more about becoming a personal concierge check out her book, The Concierge Life: What You Need to Know to Build a Successful Business, Live Your Passion, and Change the World!

If starting a business from home sounds appealing, be sure to grab my FREE business plan template here!

Where Else Can You Find Work at Home Jobs for Nurses?

FlexJobs is my favorite place to search for work at home jobs for nurses because they let you refine your search by job type, schedule, job category, telecommuting level, company accolades, career level, and title. Being able to break down your job search into these specific categories will help you find what you’re looking for faster. Plus, all their job postings are hand-screened for legitimacy, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with scams.

Another great place to find work at home jobs for nurses is the website The Remote Nurse. Sadie, the founder of the site, is an RN who left her remote nursing job to help other healthcare providers (nurses, nurse practitioners, and doctors) find work from home employment.

One more place to explore for work at home nursing jobs is Nurse Fern. Emma, who runs the site, was a former ER nurse who escaped bedside nursing and found success in a non-clinical role, and she wants to help you do the same.

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Have you brought your nursing job home? What do you think are the best work at home jobs for nurses? We’d love to hear about it, or if you’ve spun off into a new career, we’d love to hear about that too!

Originally published December 2, 2016. Content updated September 2023.

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Holly Reisem Hanna is a former nurse who decided to start a blog to make money from home while caring for her daughter. Since its inception in 2009, The Work at Home Woman has helped millions of readers find legitimate work at home jobs and business ideas. Under Holly's guidance, The Work at Home Woman was named one of the best websites for your career by Forbes two years in a row. Holly graduated from the University of Texas and has been featured in Yahoo Finance, Woman’s World Magazine, CNN, and many others.

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74 Comments

  4. Holly,
    I am a RN, MSN/Ed. I have over 20 years experience as a ICU nurse, and now I work as a Nurse Administrator and RN Program Director. Due to added family responsibilities, I must find online nursing work. The challenge has been difficult, or maybe I am just not looking in the right places. Do you have any suggestions?

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    • Have you applied for any jobs yet, or is your challenge finding a job you want to apply for? It’s hard for me to pinpoint where the breakdown is happening without knowing more information.

      I definitely suggest talking to people in your network and letting them know you’re looking to work from home. You never know who in your network may know of an opportunity. Also, is your company open to telecommuting? Have you tried submitting a telecommuting proposal to them?

      Sadie (The Remote Nurse) has a great Facebook Group for nurses who are looking to work from home:
      https://www.facebook.com/groups/remotenursingjobs

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  5. Hello,
    I am looking to teach online BSN courses. I have been a floor nurse for four years and a nurse educator for one year. I currently have my masters in nursing education. Every time I look for an online nursing faculty job is says it requires a doctorate degree. Do I need my doctorate? What are your recommendations?

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  6. Received my MSN in Nursing Education in November 2019. Nurse for 25 years bedside, med-surg/tele/oncology. Looking to begin my journey in nursing education online but most postings requirea terminal degree which I plan on returning to school to complete. Would like something to do during the interim i.e content editor, question writer/editor for NCLEX. Any other suggestions or leads much appreciated. My back can’t take much more of the stressors and increased demands of the bedside nurse.

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  7. I m a women of 45yrs,and nursing 26yrs,did resign in jan 2020 to help my son with schoolwork.but I miss my job as register nurse and need and need a salary.i did worked in oncology,hi care post orthopedic patients.having HIV couns/marriage course.code 10 driver’s license.can start immedly.want to learn if there is a possibility.married,and my son is 17yrs.staying in north west.was helping cansa with fund raising

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  8. I am an RN BSN for 25 years now. I love my job at a Nursing Home and it has wonderful retirement. However, I’m looking to supplement my income. I live in remote Western Oklahoma and have decent internet. I have allot of Long term Care and Hospice experience, as well as med surg. Any ideas?

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  9. Hello I was a Med-Surg nurse for 3 years before my injury. I had 1 year of clinical rotation to go for my NP. I have had 3 surgeries on my right wrist. I have a right fused wrist and CRPS. In the left shoulder I have bicep tendinitis. My restrictions are no lifting, pushing, pulling more than 10-20lbs. I am unable to perform repetitive tasks with my right wrist and left shoulder.
    Are their any jobs out here that I would be able work as a RN?

    Thanks,
    Stepfanie

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  10. I’m currently working from home as a telephonic case manager but because of the production standards and because I’m also a caregiver I wanted to look for something like a 24/7 nurse line where I could take a call and move on to the next as well as work part time. I have BSN and wondered how much training is involved.

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  11. Holly,

    I generally have a handful of nursing jobs available on any given day. Currently, I have 2 Bilingual (S) Telemedicine openings for Geriatric, LPN(s) w 1-year experience or new grad! :-) Great pay with weekly bonuses based on performance metrics. Send resume and cover letter to [email protected]

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  13. I ran into this website as I googled work from home jobs for nurses. I have been a nurse for almost 20 yrs and have lots of hospital/clinic experience. I’m a busy momma of three girls. I would like any recommendations of companies to work for from any of you. I’m excited to give this a try in the near future.

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  15. Hi, I have worked as a surgical/CVOR nurse for the past 9 years. Even though I do love it in the operating room, I find myself wanting to step back and have more flexibility with my schedule. My daughters are growing up and I don’t want to miss their last high school memories.
    Do you know if there is anything that I could do from home that is maybe more geared for acute care?

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  16. Hello, I live in Costa Rica, but have an active RN Florida license since 2003. My background is ICU. At the moment I’m looking for job opportunities I can do from Costa Rica. I still do perdiem in ICU in a hospital in Miami. So far I just hit dead ends. Your input would be greatly appreciated.

    Shirin Didier

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  21. I work from home as a RN coder and I love it. It is a welcome change from the hospital because I was so burnt out!
    Pros: Working from home saves me time from commuting, less wear and tear on my car and less stress on my body, I can cook lunch if I want, flexible hours.

    Cons: people think they can just drop by your house at anytime, so you need to set boundaries. It can get lonely if you are used to being around a lot of people I post work from home nurse and other medical professional jobs weekly on my youtube channel ” Simone irie ” . Stop by for more info :0)

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  24. Hi Everyone,

    I am new to this post. I have been working from home as an RN for the past 7 years. In that time I have obtained my BSN through my employer. I now find myself being the product of a major downsizing. There are many opportunities out there. You just have to keep looking.

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  25. Hi there.. Interesting read.
    I am a Jamaican nurse who works in Tourism but I think it is time to move on.

    How likely is it to land an international work at home job seeing that Jamaica does not offer this kind of post, ever…?

    Do you think employers for work at home posts will require me having their specific license even though I would work from home?

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  26. Hello I am seasoned RN last worked ICU and Medical Step down Unit. I was involved in a MVA and has been off work since 2016. However, my physician has said I am able to work just with out lifting, pulling, or pushing anything greater than 10-15 pounds. Which lead me to be terminated after being off work over a year because the hospital could not accommodate my restrictions. I am interested in doing some home nursing can you help me find something I may be able to perform at home. Thank you.

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    • Hi Val,

      I’m sorry to hear about your accident. All of the above mentions are viable nursing options that offer telecommuting positions.

      If you’re looking to save time with your job search, I highly suggest paying for a FlexJobs’ membership. They’ll have all of the most current nursing listings on their website, so you won’t have to dig through each company’s site looking for the remote positions.

      If you have more specific questions, let me know. Good luck!

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  27. Hi, my name is Chloe, and I am a RN with a Bachelor’s Degree, looking for a stay a home job because of a automobile accident that left me disabled. I love nursing and recently went back and took HEIDIS Nurse Training and received my certificate. I am just not quite sure how to begin looking for a work at home job.

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  28. Thanks for the helpful advice! How difficult is it to land a Case Management position with no previous experience? I have a BSN, have worked in nursing since 2002 in many different areas, and yet it seems I am having difficulty finding a work from home position. I have always wanted to work in Case Management, which is one of the reasons I went back to school. But I don’t have all the certifications these companies seem to require. Finding it frustrating and beginning to think that a work at home position is out of reach…

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    • Hi Kara, I’m not sure. Do you have a LinkedIn profile that says you’re searching for a remote nurse case management position? I get a lot of recruiters contacting me on there for nursing positions. You may also want to seek out a nurse recruiter to assist you — they make money off of each successful placement, so it’s free for you.

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  30. Hello work at home woman, thanks for putting this website together. I came across this site after searching for nursing work at home jobs. Very good read, informative and filled with resources.

    I am a float nurse in a very busy hospital, but for the past year I have had this great yearning to step away from the bedside and work from home. A big part of it though is because I would like to start a family. I am beat up and tired all

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  32. Now a days Technology has so increased that any Registered Nurse can share his experience online via watsapp or Video Calling or Audio Calling Support. Registered Nurse can guide his patient at its best. Guidance by an expert Nurse in her work is the most important thing.

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