Interview(Please help)

Hi there - thought this looked familiar - one of your classmates is doing this too. Here are my answers for her:

1. I currently work for a large nephrology practice (17 MDs and 5 mid-levels). I do dialysis rounding in four dialysis units. I have an MSN in management and leadership and two post-MSN certificates: adult and peds CNS.

2. I work in a predominantly outpt environment and interact with dieticians/social works and bio-med techs on a daily basis. I actually work off the medical model so though my background is nursing, my role is that of the provider who assesses, orders tests, re-evals and re-assesses the treatment plan.

3. For many of my pts, I'm the only provider they see, so my role with them is mult-factorial: I provide the specialty care (nephrology) but also to some extent their primary care too.

4. I don't really get into nursing research as part of my job although ANNA has some research on the use of mid-level providers in the dialysis population.

5. The patients are the total focus of my care: making sure they have good outcomes. I also do a lot of end of life counselling.

6. Well lets see - none of the computers worked at one of the units I went to today so that sure was cost containment! Lol - however, Medicare rules the dollars in my job so cost containment is sometimes brutal.

7. The two main reasons patients are on dialysis are diabetes (Caucasions) and HTN (African-Americans) and the main issue is noncompliance for both populations.

8. Everything is computer generated - all charting is on electronic medical records - yeah!

Hope this helps.