Posting my Mercor Link here: https://t.mercor.com/yKUQX If you are interested in helping train AI and using your clinical skills at the same time, Mercor may be the right side gig for you.

If you've decided you want to move toward AI but you're staring at a wall of buzzwords, this is for you. "Getting into AI" isn't one door. It's at least five, and the good news is that most of them don't require you to become a software engineer. Here's the honest map, from the gentlest on-ramp to the most technical. 1. Clinical AI Governance & Safety — the pathway almost no one talks about. Hospitals are buying AI tools faster than they can vet them, and someone has to sit in the room and ask, "Is this actually safe for patients?" That someone should be a nurse. If you have bedside experience and can learn the basics of how AI models work and fail, you can move into AI safety, validation, and governance roles without writing a single line of code. Your clinical judgment is the qualification. Start by reading up on AI bias, model validation, and your organization's existing AI committee . 2. Clinical Informatics — the most established bridge. This is the well-worn path: you become the translator between the clinicians and the technology. AI is now baked into the EHR, clinical decision support, and documentation tools, so informatics nurses are increasingly the ones shaping how AI shows up at the bedside. Pathway: informatics certificate or ANCC Informatics Nursing certification, plus getting involved in any EHR or tech project at your current job. 3. Clinical Product & Implementation at AI companies — get paid for your clinical voice. Companies building ambient documentation, triage tools, and diagnostic AI are hiring nurses as clinical product managers, implementation leads, and clinical advisors. They need someone who knows why a workflow breaks at 3am. Pathway: sharpen how you talk about workflows and outcomes, build a LinkedIn presence, and target health-AI startups directly. 4. Prompt engineering & AI-tool specialist — the fastest-growing, lowest-barrier entry. You don't need a degree to become the person who knows how to actually use AI tools well and teach others. Learning to work with large language models, evaluate their outputs, and build safe clinical workflows around them is a real, marketable skill today. Pathway: free courses on prompting and generative AI, then practice on real healthcare use cases and document what you learn.

Welcome to our Ex-Nurse Movement community. I'd like to ask our new members about what they would like to learn. Is it programming? Is it AI use in healthcare? Is it career transitioning? Let me know in the comments below. This is a safe space, no answer is wrong. Thank you!!!

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