a day in the life...

[D&Ggirl]

what is a "typical" day for a case manager? im thinking about switching to this but dont have much info to go off of other than my 1 day i spent in clinical in school which was a while ago, but it was interesting. Do you have much patient interactions or do you deal more with doctors or no one at all? thank you so much!

[CardioTrans, BSN, RN]

This really depends on where you work as a case manager. There are nurses who work at insurance companies, hospitals, companies themselves who follow their employees.... etc.

I work in a hospital as an inpatient case manager. I have one service that I cover. I have patient interaction on a daily basis, work closely with the residents and attendings, talk to insurance companies on a daily basis, I do education for nurses on the floor, the residents, also for the office staff for the service, help arrange things for discharge, take patient phone calls from discharged patients who have not yet had the follow up appt in the clinic....have at least 4 meetings a week with the department heads, go to family meetings with the physicians, make rounds with the physicians...not to mention doing the things for "meeting criteria" that I have to do. At any given time, I have about 25-30 patients on service and 4 attending physicians. I usually get to work around 715 or 730 and usually leave around 530 or 6.

This is just my day.........again, it depends on where you work as the case manager.