cosmicmama BSN, RN

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About cosmicmama

cosmicmama has 25 years experience as a BSN, RN.


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    MBA or MSN

    Hi, I have an MBA and a BSN, I work for a Fortune 50 health insurance company as a manager in case management. I have more education than all of my leadership team members, some of whom only have associate degrees but have been around forever. ...
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    I got the job!!!!

    What kind of case management will you be doing? Inpatient?
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    Remote Telephonic Nursing

    I can't believe no one has answered you. Try the big insurance companies, like United Healthcare, Anthem, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana. With your critical care experience, you should be an attractive candidate for a telephonic case manager or UM positio...
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    Back to night shift...am I crazy?

    I agree about the abnormal thing, hence the quotations. :) Thanks for your input!
  5. I've been a nurse for nearly 30 years. I've done my share of night shift, around 15 years total. About five years ago I left the bedside to do case management for an insurance company, and while working from home has been nice, the work doesn't feed...
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    Inpatient CM salaries?

    Hi all, I'm a telephonic CM for a large insurance company, and I'd like to branch out and get some more diverse CM experience so I can do travel nursing in a few years (I travelled in the past as an L&D nurse, and always said I would do it again ...
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    Nurses Who Smoke Marijuana

    And meanwhile, the number of nurses I have encountered in my career who are functional alcoholics is astounding. It is definitely BS that a nurse can be burned at the stake for smoking a joint while on vacation...but what can you do? Got to play by t...
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    Break up during school

    Screw him, honey. You have a wonderful career ahead of you. Throw yourself into your future. One day you're going to be a successful nurse and he's going to realize how he screwed up, and then you will want to laugh in his face. I went through a div...
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    telephonic home CM jobs?

    Try Anthem.com, United Healthcare, Aetna. I work for one of the big three listed above, and have worked in government business (Medicaid and Medicare) and in the commercial division. "For those who work from home are you able to travel while doing t...
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    Wellpoint/Anthem BCBS phone interview

    Lakegirl, it is in the Work at Home agreement, only cable and DSL hard-wired internet allowed. It's a security and a reliability thing. Well, this is a really old thread. I've been in my case management job with Anthem for almost four years. There ha...
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    DON position...great opportunity, or career suicide?

    Thanks all, I declined the offer. It seemed like a great facility with happy staff, but my gut was telling me not to do it. Appreciate the words.
  12. Hi all.....after 22 years of diverse nursing experience, I am thinking of taking a DON position at a gorgeous 146-bed SNF near my home. I recently graduated with my MBA in Healthcare Management, which is why they called me for an interview in spit...
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    Totally online nursing school?

    Hi all...I've been a nurse for decades, I'm asking this for my daughter in law. We (the entire family) want to move to a beach town that is an hour from the nearest college with a nursing program. The problem is my DIL wants to go to nursing schoo...
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    RN-BSN-- WGU?

    After being a nurse for over 20 years, I completed my BSN at WGU in 2013. I'm now doing my MBA in Healthcare Management there as well. WGU is legit! Very affordable, non-profit, and you will get a good education. The BSN was easy for me, all thos...
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    Wellpoint/Anthem BCBS phone interview

    Vabeacnurse, Yes, you should get a phone. Some of the people in orientation with me hadn't gotten their phones, then they had to scramble to get it and set it up when they got home from on-site training so they could take part in on-the-job-training ...