After 6 years of bedside nursing and 1 medical scare, I knew if I didn’t leave bedside, I would continue to put off living the life I wanted.  

Like many nurses, I was burnt out. Sometimes I just sat in my car for an hour in my driveway after work. I needed to process my emotions and compartmentalize all the terrible things that happened. I couldn’t compose myself if I didn’t.

I put up emotional walls between myself and my patients, responding more like a robot than a human. I missed family holidays, birthdays, and special events because I was working. Even if I did make it to a family function, I was so emotionally drained that I showed up as a shell of myself.

Many people would ask me if I was “ok.” They prodded and pried to know what was “wrong” and wondered how they could help. The worst part of it all was knowing they couldn’t. In the midst of this part of my life, I was merely existing. I was on auto-pilot and I knew something would have to happen to change my course.

One day, during a routine chiropractic appointment, an X-ray revealed a lump on my skull. Immediately, all the emotion I’d been suppressing, all the walls I put up, all the feelings I’d swept under the rug came pouring out. My brain thought of the worst case scenario. I cried at the thought of my life being over, and all the things I wish I’d been able to do that I might not have time for. It was scary and traumatic, but most importantly, I FELT something again. 

Luckily, after further examination and another X-ray, the lump was actually just my ponytail caught on film. Unintentionally, and rather anticlimactically, the way I chose to wear my hair that day became the wake-up call of my life.

If there was one thing I learned from this process, it’s that it doesn’t matter how the sign comes into your life to show you the message, it just matters that you’re ready to hear the message itself. 

It was that moment I decided I wasn’t living the life I wanted to live, and I had to do something about it. I wanted to be able to travel anywhere within the US, spend more time with family, not treat patients like numbers, and be less stressed from work. 

At the time though, I didn’t know remote nursing was an option. I hadn’t met any remote nurses before, and while I knew about travel nursing, it wasn’t going to allow me to have something stable and long-term. I certainly didn’t want to change jobs every 3 months, I wanted the best of both worlds - good pay AND ability to travel without instability.

That’s when I found a remote nursing job by looking into my current networks and honing in on what makes me unique as a nurse. Playing to those strengths saved me hours of applying to random remote nurse jobs that wouldn’t have gotten me anywhere. I learned that it wasn’t a numbers game at all. By having the relationship, I was fast-tracked, and like many other things in life - it’s all about who you know.

4 years into being a remote nurse, my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. There were so many resources I wish I would’ve had years and years ago. I wouldn’t have had to miss so many times with my family, I wouldn’t have worsened back pain from physical demands of nursing, I wouldn’t have spent drives home crying, I wouldn’t have felt emotionally numb after tragic patient losses.

Hence where I am today.  

My mission is to help other nurses leave bedside for a remote nursing role WITHOUT spending months hearing nothing back after applying and playing the “numbers game.” Whatever the reason may be (physical limitations, wanting to spend more time with family, mental health), I want to be the support I never got.

And if you’re on this page, you’ve probably had a vision of the possibilities in your life if you could be a remote nurse. Maybe you haven’t had a medical scare, but you’ve been pushed to your limits, mentally or physically, or both.

I see a bit of myself in nurses I talk to who have this dream of becoming remote. And I’m here to tell you it’s possible. To find out more about how we can make it happen, sign up for a call below, and we’ll create a game plan no matter where you’re at in your search.