Also called: Telephone Triage Nurse, Virtual Nurse
Registered nurse who assesses and advises patients by phone or video.
Answers a parent's midnight call about a feverish baby, uses clinical guidelines to decide between ER, urgent care, or home care, and helps bedside nurses by video in "virtual nursing" programs.
Estimate based on BLS registered nurses.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. ADN or BSN, RN license, and several years of bedside experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, 2-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Nursing.
Growing faster than average. Virtual nursing is spreading quickly.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI symptom checkers absorb simple questions, trimming triage lines; nurses still make the judgment calls on sick patients.
Classes: Biology, Chemistry, Spanish.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1141.
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