Changing nurse role?!

[JD789]

I'm currently a practice nurse in a lovely surgery but it just isn't doing it for me anymore. Not to mention the pay is awful.
I've been looking at a job working as a nurse analyst within the disability sector - completing assessments writing medical records etc. The pay is good and so are the benefits that come with the job but I'm scared of taking the leap into something less hands on.

Has anybody left a clinical role within nursing to do something similar? Would I be making a huge mistake?

I’m also interested to know this and I am looking into the same area of work.

Also a practice nurse (19 years in primary care, 31 years qualified and at the end of my career (VERY well paid).
I would not recommend that you do this job. It is highly stressful and no-one ever seems to do it for long.

Go onto practice nursing forum and search this. You will see plenty of posts warning of this.
Why so unfulfilled in GP land? Have you specialised? Thought of going down the ANP route. There are loads of options now. And ask for decent pay!!

I did this job for 2 years. While it was initially refreshing to be non clinical it wasnt a great job in all honesty. At first they train you for about a month, which a few people on my intake failed and so didnt progress. Then there is a probation period and if you dont meet certain targets or competencies you're also out. They expect a certain amount of cases on average each day. It is a private business so there isnt anything nice and fuzzy about it. The regulations changed fairly frequently so sometimes it's hard to keep up with it all. Some people flourish at it, me not so much. I left after 2 years. People I know who trained with me didnt stay much longer and those that did stay were coming to the end.of their career and forcing themselves to stay to get their pension. Not my idea of fun and alot ofpeopleonly did it in the short term. On the other hand it is mon to fri 9 to 5 and the pay isnt too bad. What I would say is that the progress might be limited and if you ever want to go back to clinical it might be a difficult transition back. Good luck whatever your decision.