<p>Do any nurses do bench biomedical research?</p>
<p>There were a couple of people in my old lab who attended nursing programs while working part time as techs. They had wanted to work in clinical research. I don’t know if there is any demand for people with the clinical training of a nurse to work in basic science. My guess is the closest nurses come to basic research is outcome studies and public health studies. I think they are well suited to clinical research though.</p>
<p>From my understanding, some do research but not many. NIH even has a nursing institute that has tons of nurses doing research. It is probably not the best route to go into research, but it is a possibility if you are already a nurse. There are routes to even get a PhD in nursing.</p>