A few questions for one of you lovely ladies/gentlemen

grammyr · Jan 27, 2008

1: What is your nursing specialty? i am in case management, but my heart is in ER nursing

#2: What are the functions of the members of the nursing team @ your workplace? The nurses are my eyes and ears for getting patients ready to be discharged

#3: What is your definition of nursing? This is a hard one. I'll have to think about this one for a minute and get back to you.

#4: What are you roles and responsibilities at work? I am responsible for discharge planning, utilization review, and overall case manager. When a patient triggers on the admission assessment, I review the chart and identify any possible discharge needs. I also argue with insurance companies.

#5: What are 5 tasks you routinely perform? Chart audits, round with physicians, assist patients with discharge needs, call insurance companies, quality improvement chart audits

#6: Are there any nursing organizations you belong to? What are the benifits? I belong to 3: ENA, ANA, and Case Manager Society of America. To be truthful, I probabl won't renew my ANA membership because I haven't been impressed. ENA has over 30,000 members and they are very helpful. I haven't belonged to CMSA long enough to form much of an opinion.

#7: Any recent Continuing Ed? Case Management stuff

#8: Ways the Nurse Practice Act impacts your delivery of care... I am not technically clinical right now, most of my regulatory guidelines come from CMS

#9: How is caring reflected in your area of practice? I can't stand for people not to have the things they need to be functional at what ever level of care they go to after their stay in the hospital. I make sure they have these things, because I just think, what if that was my mother or daddy not able to get to the bathroom or something.