Do any of you work as regulatory nurses?

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I wasn't sure which specialty to even put this in, so apologies if this is in the wrong spot.

I have a job opportunity to work as a Regulatory Coordinator RN. This role works in a team with 3 other nurses and an ADA coordinator to maintain survey readiness at 150 clinical sites in a health system. The job entails a wide variety of things including doing tracers, going to locations to watch processes & see gaps or improvement opportunities. Participate in committees, work on policies, act as regulatory resource for staff. We would also work on facility licensing, respond to investigations, or be there if state shows up, help set up any correction plans, that kind of thing.

I haven't been able to find much information, and I'm unaware of any nursing organization for this type of nursing. Do any of you work in this field, or have any insight?

Thanks!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

We used to call them 'corporate nurses'. They worked for a health care chain (in LTC) and would do things for survey.  If the State showed up, they'd be swarming the facility in a heartbeat!

The job prob involves a great deal of travel, so that's something to consider.

All in all, sounds like a State surveyor-type position. But not civil service.

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Specializes in school nurse.
8 hours ago, amoLucia said:

We used to call them 'corporate nurses'. They worked for a health care chain (in LTC) and would do things for survey.  If the State showed up, they'd be swarming the facility in a heartbeat!

The job prob involves a great deal of travel, so that's something to consider.

All in all, sounds like a State surveyor-type position. But not civil service.

I've always thought that these types of employees should devote an extra three days or so to a facility visit and take assignments . That way they can get a taste of the actual reality before pulling an "Improvement Plan" out of their corporate briefcases...

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5 hours ago, Jedrnurse said:

That way they can get a taste of the actual reality before pulling an "Improvement Plan" out of their corporate briefcases...

Uh, that's not where they pull them from. ?

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Specializes in school nurse.
19 minutes ago, Wuzzie said:

Uh, that's not where they pull them from. ?

Right you are. I was trying to be...diplomatic. ?

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Specializes in Oceanfront Living.

This made me LOL!  It's true that individuals who have worked in the corporate nurse have told me they get no respect.

One example is back in the late 80s we had one of these "cost saving inspections".  They told us to share heart valves with a totally unrelated hospital over an hour away.  They never dressed out, never came to the back, never knew what was actually going on......

They had no idea that the replacement valve size could not be determined until the native valve was removed.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

They were the 'fancy-schmancy' CORPORATE NURSES. Started at 9, always had a long lunch and left on time.

They would come in wearing lab coats, fancy nice street dress clothes, coiffed hair & nails, dress shoes (some high heels), and JEWELLRY. It was always the jewelry that would blow me away!! And the clipboard!! (I still have a vivid image of one particular corp nurse burned in my memory!)

PUHLEEZE! NO RESPECT.

What I did see that seemed to work were retired civil service Health Care Facilities Surveyors that became independent consultants after retirement. They KNEW the rules of CMS and their own States. IN AND OUT! They  usually had decent previous clinical front line experience. And they knew the recommendations of CDC, OSHA, HIPAA rules. They had been surveyors for years and were well versed in their own discipline but also enough of pharmacy, social services and therapies. They were GOOD.

It could be a very enlightening and exciting job. But then on the other hand, it could be 'corporate nursing'.

 

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4 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

They were the 'fancy-schmancy' CORPORATE NURSES. Started at 9, always had a long lunch and left on time.

They would come in wearing lab coats, fancy nice street dress clothes, coiffed hair & nails, dress shoes (some high heels), and JEWELLRY. It was always the jewelry that would blow me away!! And the clipboard!! (I still have a vivid image of one particular corp nurse burned in my memory!)

PUHLEEZE! NO RESPECT.

What I did see that seemed to work were retired civil service Health Care Facilities Surveyors that became independent consultants after retirement. They KNEW the rules of CMS and their own States. IN AND OUT! They  usually had decent previous clinical front line experience. And they knew the recommendations of CDC, OSHA, HIPAA rules. They had been surveyors for years and were well versed in their own discipline but also enough of pharmacy, social services and therapies. They were GOOD.

It could be a very enlightening and exciting job. But then on the other hand, it could be 'corporate nursing'.

 

NEVER disrespect the Sacred Power of...the Clipboard!!

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