17 TOP Side Hustle for Nurses [2024]
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As a nurse, you have exceptionally specialized skills that can be your key to thousands of side business opportunities. Having multiple streams of income, especially through side hustles, will give you the financial security to follow your passions and grow. Whether you want to supplement your full-time income or gradually transition to full-time entrepreneurship, this guide will help you with side hustle ideas and helpful resources.
Let's dive into the top 17 side hustles for nurses in 2024 and understand how to monetize your medical skills and passion.
1. Health and Wellness Coaching
Many people need someone to talk to about their health and wellness. You can use your medical background to organize one-on-one coaching sessions with patients. You can help your clients with such popular topics as weight management, stress reduction, and chronic disease management.
To get the hang of it, check out Wellness Coaching: The Basics and The Wellness Couch podcast on Spotify:
2. Medical Transcription
With medical terminology experience, medical transcription can become one of the highest-earning side hustles for you. Transcribe medical reports, notes, and other important documents for healthcare providers. Much of this work involves flexible hours and allows telecommuting.
Have a look at this video for even more details about starting a medical transcription job for beginners:
3. Freelance Writing for Health Blogs
With all the complexity and importance of healthcare, knowledgeable writing will always be much sought-after. You can use such expertise to come up with medical articles, health tips, and the latest news in medicine across various medical blogs and websites. This means you can use this channel to communicate the latest medical research, patient care tips with a proven record, and wellness advice to the general public.
Check out the Healthcare Writing Tips blog and The Writer's Co-op podcast on Spotify to get a better idea of how to enter the freelance writing community:
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4. Online Course Development
Put your nursing knowledge to work by creating online courses. You can teach first aid, CPR, create a course for kids on how the human body works, and share your other specialized nursing skills. You can sell your courses on Udemy or Teachable.
If you're completely new to this format, check out The Online Course Guy's YouTube channel to learn the basics of creating an online course.
You might also want to check out this video for an inside look at the online course industry:
5. Telehealth Consulting
With telehealth consulting, what you can do is to offer remote consultations to patients in need of medical guidance. One of the main benefits of telehealth consulting is, of course, an opportunity to examine patients from the comfort of one's home.
You can find more info in the Telehealth Today blog and the Telehealth Heroes podcast:
6. Medical Coding and Billing
Medical coding and billing is a goldmine: in this job, you translate healthcare services into billing codes that are an integral part of the healthcare reimbursement process.
If you're interested and want to dive deeper, video is your guide to the world of medical coding:
7. Home Health Care Services
Provide home health care to elderly or disabled patients. This side hustle will give you time to provide personalized care to your patients and build a strong relationship with them. You can also create a blog about it.
Learn about the examples of home care professionals from the Home Care Heroes podcast.
This video will also be helpful if you decide to start a home care business as a side hustle:
8. Health Blogging and Vlogging
If you live to share your ideas on various medical topics, health tips, health product reviews, etc., a blog or YouTube channel can become a great outlet for your creativity and knowledge. Start posting to your health and wellness blog or channel, and then you can monetize your content through advertising and sponsorships.
Here are some resources to help you start your blog, vlog or channel: Getting started as a health blogger: The beginner’s guide and Ali Abdaal's YouTube channel about writing, journaling, and turning your creativity into income.
Ali Abdaal is not only a content creator who can help you get started writing, but also a success story. You can read more about Ali and his net worth here:
9. Sell Medical Products
You can become a Medical Supplies Distributor and sell scrubs, medical equipment and wellness products using your professional healthcare network.
Listen to the Medical Sales podcast to learn more:
10. Nurse Consultant
As a freelance nurse consultant, you can provide consulting services to law firms, insurance companies, or healthcare facilities. Your area of expertise can include medical case review, healthcare policy consulting, and more – it's your choice!
Here's an article on how to become a legal nurse consultant.
11. Health and Fitness Coach
Combine your medical knowledge with fitness training if you're into it. You can specialize in areas such as sports rehabilitation, weight loss or anxiety reduction. Your coaching services can help clients reach their fitness goals safely and effectively – and you can build a solid business around it.
Listen to the FitPro Podcast for online training tips for fitness trainers:
12. First Aid Training
Provide first aid training to schools, businesses, or community groups. Spread the life-saving knowledge to help children and adults don't panic and act correctly in emergency situations. This way you will not only create a side-hustle for yourself, but also help saves lives, create confidence in people and increase safety.
Listen to the All Things First Aid podcast for more helpful first aid information:
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13. Freelance Writing for Medical History
Write for a medical journal, textbook, or educational material. This side hustle puts your detailed medical knowledge and attention to accuracy to good use.
In this video, you'll see one person's journey to becoming a freelance medical writer – and maybe it's for you, too.
14. Health Development Apps
You can work with developers to build health-related apps, providing them with all the medical knowledge and insight they need into what's really important to users in a medical app. It could be a fitness tracker, a wellness or telehealth app, or something as simple as a medication reminder.
Watch this video to learn the basics of building a health app:
15. Nutrition Counseling
In this age of body dysmorphia and unhealthy eating habits, you can offer your grateful patients personalized nutrition counseling. Help them design meal plans that meet their unique health needs and goals, and tailor your sessions to give your clients the right nutrition knowledge to meet their needs and goals.
For an example of how it's done, listen to The Nutritionist podcast:
16. Childbirth Education
Educate potential parents on the safest ways to deliver a baby, then postpartum care, and finally newborn care. These classes may be taught in person or online, giving the parents-to-be confidence and knowledge of what's to expect.
Check out the Childbirth Education blog for more info.
17. Travel Nursing
Become a travel nurse and take short-term positions in different locations. This can be a great way to see new places, all while earning an incredible salary. Travel Nursing Agency, for example, publishes an entire blog dedicated to allowing traveling nurses and patients to find each other and to discuss ideas and values related to traveling nursing.
It's been done already – which means that it's something real and achievable. Watch this video for an example:
Diving into a side hustle as a nurse has two general benefits: first, it gives you financial security, and second, you're investing in your professional growth. Each of the 17 side hustles listed in this article uses your special skills and experience to really make a difference, while bringing home an extra income stream. Go for it, and good luck!
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