NurseRoRo

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

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1. How to handle getting overwhelmed...

   NurseRoRo replied to HelloWish's topic in General Nursing

   *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 obviously festering inside if you find yourself burstin...

2. Flying through courses

   NurseRoRo replied to Puertoriiquena's topic in Western Governors

   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, too!

3. Which specialty to choose?

   NurseRoRo replied to Alexxoxox's topic in General Specialties

   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 the ER or ICU. I loved working in the OR because ...

4. Nurse tech working as RN

   NurseRoRo replied to esrun77's topic in General Nursing

   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 that if there were ever a lawsuit, my employer's best...

5. Sent home from clinical :(

   NurseRoRo replied to marin8campy's topic in General Students

   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 the hospital where I did clinicals. I was chosen to ...

6. WGU....requires RN to BSN student to work at least part time???

   NurseRoRo replied to gia_89's topic in Western Governors

   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 20 hrs in a job as a RN. I am planning to use my ...

7. Gross Things Patients Do

   NurseRoRo replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure if I'm horrified or impressed that she apparently thought this was a logical thing to do. Yikes.

8. Gross Things Patients Do

   NurseRoRo replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in General Nursing

   @ 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 vaginal preps very seriously sometimes....even when masked, there ...

9. Confessions of an Introvert

   NurseRoRo replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   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 exhausting day after day. I spend my days talking to pat...

10. Working for Anthem as a C.M.?

    NurseRoRo replied to Bluebolt's topic in Case Management

    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 discharge from inpatient. My job was 100% from hom...

11. No creativity in nursing? Hah!

    NurseRoRo replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    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 strength of a foley g-tube (instead of medical tape if...

12. Job-Hopping in Nursing...How detrimental is it?

    NurseRoRo posted a topic in Career Support

    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 insurance industry. I've cared for NICU babies, 100 y...

13. Any experience as Manager of Clinical Practice @ Gentiva?

    NurseRoRo replied to NurseRoRo's topic in Home Health

    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 taking a different direction by upper management. ...

14. Any experience as Manager of Clinical Practice @ Gentiva?

    NurseRoRo posted a topic in Home Health

    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 agency. I stayed in case management, and am working ...

15. What's the difference betw case manager and UR?

    NurseRoRo replied to ladybug847's topic in Case Management

    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, rather they deal with hospital Utilization Review nur...