8 ways nurses can make extra cash

5. Medical Transcription
You’ll have to invest a little upfront to do this because you’ll want to take a course and become certified. But the beauty of medical transcription—transcribing digital voice recordings of dictated medical reports—is that you can work from home, make your own hours and do this from anywhere, as long as you have a computer and Internet access. There’s tons of information about this on the Internet, and you can take online courses.

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Cynthia Dusseault

Cynthia Dusseault is a professional freelance writer with both a health and an education background. A former medical radiation technologist and elementary school teacher, she realized that no matter what she did, she was drawn to any task that involved writing, so she decided, over a decade ago, to write full-time. Since then, she has written for a variety of magazines and websites including Nursing PRN, National Review of Medicine, University Affairs, Your Health, Education Leaders Today, Today's Parent, Children's Playmate, WeightWatchers.ca and many more. She has written about topics such as asthma, genital herpes, circumcision, teleradiology, body art, learning disabilities and exercise trends, and she absolutely adores the fact that writing—particularly doing the research for the articles she writes—makes her a lifelong learner. More

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