Seeking Remote Nursing Positions for Advanced Skills

Remote nursing can be a very real path, especially for nurses with advanced skills, but the best opportunities are often not bedside replacements. They tend to be in telehealth, case management, utilization review, care coordination, nurse navigation, clinical documentation, and some informatics-related roles. Large employers like CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group currently maintain substantial remote or remote-linked job listings, including clinical and nurse-related openings.

A strong strategy is to match your nursing background to the remote role type instead of searching only “remote nurse.” For example, advanced clinical assessment skills can fit telehealth triage, care management, utilization review, or specialty nurse educator roles. If you have strong documentation, payer, or discharge-planning experience, those can translate especially well into remote care coordination or review-based jobs. Broader current remote-nursing guides also consistently point to telehealth, case management, and utilization review as common entry paths into work-from-home nursing.

It also helps to be practical about qualifications. Many remote nursing roles still want an active RN license, several years of clinical experience, and sometimes multistate eligibility. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing notes that the Nurse Licensure Compact lets nurses have one multistate license with the privilege to practice in other compact states, which can matter for remote roles serving patients across state lines.

Helpful places to start:
thePros job search: https://thepros.co/search/jobs
Get.It job search: https://www.get.it/superseeker
CVS Health careers: https://jobs.cvshealth.com/
UnitedHealth Group careers: https://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/search-jobs

If you are targeting remote work now, what kind of advanced nursing background do you want to lead with first—telehealth, case management, utilization review, education, or another specialty?