NurseRoRo

NurseRoRo

Med Surg, Case Management, OR

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About NurseRoRo

NurseRoRo has 16 years experience and specializes in Med Surg, Case Management, OR.


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  1. How to handle getting overwhelmed...

    *Deeb Breaths* Make sure you have something in your down time that you enjoy so you can take care of yourself. Even if you don't think things are getting to you on a recognizable level, they're...
  2. Flying through courses

    Good to hear you're having a good experience! I am currently awating the outcome of my transcript evaluation, with anticipated start date of January 2018. I'm hoping this will go quickly for me,
  3. Which specialty to choose?

    I have worked in the OR but not the other two, so I would still say, OR. I know for my personality and learning style, I don't think I can handle the amount of adrenaline, focus, and multi-tasking in...
  4. Nurse tech working as RN

    That sounds like a sticky situation that honestly, if I were the RN that you reference, I would not take on that sort of liability to jeopardize my license. As loyal as I am to my employer, I know...
  5. Sent home from clinical :(

    I have never been sent home from clinical, but I have been made to burst into tears during a clinical day. TWICE. We had a tough professor who also happened to be the onsite clinical instructor at...
  6. I am in the process of applying to WGU for RN-BSN program. The info I read and the enrollment counselor I spoke with both stated the requirement of having an active RN license and working a minimum of...
  7. Gross Things Patients Do

    I'm not sure if I'm horrified or impressed that she apparently thought this was a logical thing to do.
  8. Gross Things Patients Do

    @ TheMoonisMyLantern, ADN, RNre: bologna sandwich No. Please no, I didn't read this correctly!?? I used to work in a women's hospital in the operating room.....I took those 2 minute lady partsl...
  9. Confessions of an Introvert

    In life, I am an introvert. In nursing, I am considered an exrovert. Coworkers don't believe that I could "possibly" be an introvert because I'm so bubbly and talkative. But man, it's extremely...
  10. Working for Anthem as a C.M.?

    I worked for Anthem un the past as a telephonuc case manager. i had a caseload of approx 65 members. They were a mix of short term and long term complex members either recently discharged or about to...
  11. No creativity in nursing? Hah!

    I once used a home care patient's Thera-Band from physical therapy as a tourniquet for a blood draw. It was the super flexible one (yellow, I think). A band-aid can be used to secure the extra...
  12. I have been a nurse for ten years. I loved nursing school and all the clinical areas that I was exposed to. I have a broad background in nursing, ranging from inpatient to home care, OR to the...
  13. I should explain that prior to my current job of telephonic case management, I was doing field work and doing case management visits. I left that job after the home care program I helped develop was...
  14. I have a broad range of nursing experience, and have found my job as a home care nurse the most fulfilling as well as draining job ever. I left the field work after a lot of drastic changes in the...
  15. What's the difference betw case manager and UR?

    In the company that I work for, a Case Manager may be expected to do some UM things, but UM nurses are not expected to do CM duties. UM nurses do not interact directly with the patients/families,...