Hello! I noticed some similar questions to the one I am about to ask and I apologize if I am being repetitive but I didn’t see this specifically (I am new so sorry if I am missing it). I am a RN and have been for 15 years. I was looking to transition into health tech but has been a bit more challenging than I expected. So, I have been working on trying to get in as a SDR but I am also taking a course for my PMP certification. Is this of value or should I focus on something else?

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I work for a payer and we hire a lot of former Nurses. I’m part of our digital health care product team, we mostly partner with third parties to offer a lot of condition management apps, like diabetes, behavioral health, telehealth ect. Most of the product managers are “non-technical” so it’s a fairly easy entry point if you don’t have a tech background, but know healthcare. Most other payers have similar teams and many ppl go on to work for health-tech companies afterwards.

Thank you. Great resources and direction for me!! You described the positions I am looking for, just getting up to speed on correct lingo so that is super helpful to be able articulate my goals clearer! I haven’t found a lot of those positions to be accessible but I am at the beginning of really trying to narrow my focus. To be totally honest, if you asked me a couple months ago I would have told you that I didn’t want anything to do with healthcare even indirectly but I have taken time to renew and see the value and contributions that can be made without being full-time hands on with patients.

I appreciate that site for the resume and your offer, thank you! I might take you up on that after I finish at least some of the trainings I have started (I went all in on every resource, webinar, low cost option I could find or the career center pointed me towards in attempts to skill up quickly and show that I have a lot of different skills beyond the box nurses sometimes get put in). I am halfway done my Diploma in Sales Management and will take the PMP certification test after I finish the PDU training course at the end of the month. So, I will need to update again soon but don’t want to add until I have accomplished them. (I should also be able to DM by then… discovered the other day I couldn’t when I wanted to ask someone a question and it wouldn’t let me lol. Prompted me to started participating which is good)

Thanks again for responding and the guidance, I really do appreciate it. It can be intimidating to put yourself out there when you don’t yet fully understand what you want to say or the direction. Hopefully I will be able to pay it forward or help those who have helped me in the future.

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Optum/ UnitedHealthcare hire former clinical staff. Look on their jobs/career page and read job descriptions for things that align with your past experiences. Might be hard to transition straight from nurse to Tech. Try looking for something that uses clinical expertise to use an EMR (or something similar) and use that to transition (i.e. you may need to pivot twice)

Thank you! Will look into that. I’m the past those jobs are typically more desirable for nurses as they are not direct care (meaning harder to obtain). In the opposite direction- the jobs don’t value what we can contribute and pay so low that unless there are growth opportunities it isn’t worth it. I was just hoping to make myself a more desirable candidate if possible. I had considered a Masters in Nursing Informatics but I am burned out with direct care so was hoping to switch before that point.

Agreed. I was also a former direct-care clinician and wanted out. I went to business school and got my MBA and although it was expensive I was able to transition to healthcare consulting (fwiw) and make money that I would say it worth the cost. You could also try to work for Epic or Cerner and get in through an actual software vendor and transition that way

Thank you! I appreciate the advice and definitely good to hear from someone who successfully made the transition! My Aunt has been a RN her whole career but also got her MBA at one point… ended up still working and supervising in the ED. That is her passion though and I do not share it lol.

Check out ASM Research, ALKU Connect, Accenture, and Leidos. I work with TONS of RNs from these companies on EHR implementations.

Awesome! Thank you for the company leads to explore!

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