Experience and Degree

Hi,

I have been an RN going on 4 years in June. I have 1 year experience at the bedside and the other 2 years in Utilization Review and the past 6 months as a work at home CM for a Managed Care company. On Friday, I landed a PT CM position at a local hospital and will be starting in a couple of weeks. My hope is to sit for the CCM exam in April 2010, giving me plenty of time to study and learn of the job.

I was always told I needed to have x amount of years of experience in this and that before specializing in a field away from the bedside. However, where there's a will, there's a way. Apply until you get an interview and blow their socks off with your motivation and eagerness to learn a new skill. If experience was the only qualification to landing a job, I obviously would still be on the hospital floor breaking my back. Good luck

I have a BSN with only 6 years clinical experience (float RN, tele, DOU, psych, med/surg). My CM co-workers seems to have years of clinical experience, some have AA degrees, others have BSN. Nobody has MSN or NP. I lucked out and was trained in CM b/c department was desperate for help. Go talk to the managers in the CM department, let them know you would be interested in training. My job is complicated and busy. I'm suppose to work 8 hrs per day but often work 9 or more hrs. The job is demanding working as a CM in the acute care enviroment.