Elizabeth Hanes is the Bed Bath & Beyond cashier who sniffs your candles, nodding if she approves, side-eyeing the shit out of you if she doesn’t.
No, wait, she was your old science teacher, explaining how atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Actually, scratch that.
She’s the nurse who took your blood pressure, pressed the ice-cold stethoscope to your chest, and told you to “take a deep breath in… hold… and let it out” right before the doctor strolled in.
Yep, Elizabeth Hanes, RN.
I knew I recognized her from somewhere!
Read on for my RN2writer review.
True to the brand, Beth swapped scrubs for screen time and turned it into a lucrative writing career.
She now teaches other nurses and healthcare professionals how to make the same transition into freelance writing.
That way, they can:
- Work from home
- Make steady monthly income
- Set their own schedule
- Have more free time
Sounds like my favorite song blasting through Beats by Dre. I’m listening… tell me more.
Beth says a lot of nurses assume they’ll be writing about personal and professional experiences. Like the time that patient came in with a He-Man toy lodged somewhere that required the Power of Grayskull to remove.
This is not the case, though.
Health writing is about creating custom content based on what the client requests, she explains.
So you’ll receive detailed instructions about what to write, and how. This means y’ain’t gotta be Hemingway in order to do this.
Here’s a high-level overview of the steps involved:
- Identify a potential client. They’re everywhere: anyone producing any type of health content.
- Reach out to them. Send an email outlining your services or a query letter proposing a specific article you’d like to write.
- Hash out the scope of work with whoever’s interested.
- Write that beezy like the rent’s due.
- Submit your draft.
- Receive edit requests. Do not take it personal. Even Beth’s first attempts come back looking like a crime scene.
- Tweak to their liking and repeat until they’re happier than a toddler with a juice box.
- Your assignment gets accepted. Yay! You’re about to become a published writer!
- Invoice them. (Probably $500 to $2,000 per item.)
- Get paid.
From there, I guess you just hump off into the sunset.
Actually, after step 10, you enter the lather, rinse, and repeat phase. You start the process all over again.
Each cycle gets faster and easier as clients return with more projects. These are your “anchor clients,” keeping your income from drifting in the wrong direction.
And just to give ya an idea of what you’d be writing:
- Brochures
- Blog posts
- Webpages
- Case studies
- White papers
- Video scripts
- Industry news articles
- Consumer health articles
- Health condition guides
- Thought pieces
- App reviews
- And more
RN2writer offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of eBooks, courses, programs, and coaching if you’re hungry for a career shift.
Pricing starts at $5.90 for the Design Your Dream Career as a Nurse Writer eBook, climbs to $79/mo for the Freelance Freedom membership, and caps at $995 for the Get Paid (Well!) to Write program.
Just watch out for upsells.
You could quietly blow the GDP of a small country on Beth’s mountain of info products. It’s like QVC for nurse writers, and honey? You need all of it.
The good news?
Almost everything is fully refundable within seven days, as long as you haven’t completed more than 25% of the training.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised that no one was talking trash about RN2writer on Reddit, Trustpilot, or the Better Business Bureau. The Albuquerque, New Mexico-based business holds an A+ rating with the BBB, even though it’s not accredited.
Damn.
The name’s Elizabeth “Don’t block my blessings, queen” Hanes, BSN, RN.
Verdict?
If WebMD’s cool with existential spirals and Diddy jokes disguised as health advice, I’m in.