Emmasmom03 replied to Emmasmom03's topic in Triage
Mine is around 5 minutes on an average day. My calls vary widely though and are mostly easy issues like pink eye, strep and stomach flu. So my call time is short on those as they are super easy.
Emmasmom03 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Support
I work from home as well. No worries about being late as I have to punch in and have to be on to take calls during my hours. I love it. I don't have to get dressed, but I usually do unless I am working overtime for a couple of hours. We have chats wi...
Honestly one thing we have got to do is to stop glamorizing guns. I am on another site called Nextdoor which is for people who live around next. Every single day there is a thread about a "potential" criminal ( basically someone who looks like they d...
I worked in Women's and still was not an issue. The only time I remember something remotely similar was a woman who was less than 20 weeks and who was dilated and contracting and maybe an infection?? I can't remember, but I know there were some nurse...
Emmasmom03 replied to ScottMedicRN's topic in General Nursing
I think it just depends. I am very laid back so night shift at the hospital was great for me, but with new mom's and babies it could be tough as night as we also had to act as lactation consultants as we don't have any at night. That of course is whe...
I think my call time is pretty low. I am at about five minutes for the actual call, not including documentation time. I know I go fast, but so many of the calls are about strep or ear infections. There is really only so many questions you can ask. I ...
I would say no personally. I may have a different view. I used to work for a hospital in Houston that was bought out by HCA last August. At first it was fine, but starting the beginning of this year they began to implement a lot of cost cutting measu...
Telephone triage nursing is so different than what most people think. Some days go really well and you feel like you have the hang of the job and then the next day you feel like every decision you made was wrong. I mostly only have inbound calls for ...
My job truly is just triaging. I don't have to answer questions about directions to the office and I do not make the appointments myself. We have coordinators who do that part of the job. I just answer the triage questions. And yes we do have some sc...
Emmasmom03 replied to Emmasmom03's topic in Triage
Not high stress after you get used to it. Right now lots of overtime and bonuses being offered, but that us because this is a brand new contract and they underestimated staffing. I enjoy it for the most part.