thelittleRNwhocould

thelittleRNwhocould

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About thelittleRNwhocould

thelittleRNwhocould specializes in Community Health.


Graduated with my ASN in May 2017 and passed NCLEX in June 2017. Employed as a staff RN at a community health clinic in Illinois.

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  1. I'm a clinic nurse in GI. The vast majority of my time is spent fighting insurance companies to obtain coverage of biologic medications for our Crohn's and UC patients. Patient care seems to often come second to submitting prior authorizations/pre-...
  2. What is it like to be a nurse in Public Health?

    I am not directly in public health nursing, but I do work as a community health nurse (staff nurse at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC). We serve uninsured, underinsured, and medicaid/medicare. We have a large hispanic patient populati...
  3. I'm loving Community Health nursing

    I am actually the second new grad hired this year at our location - the other one was hired this spring right after graduation, and she is already in school pursuing her doctorate to become an NP! I think it mainly depends upon what the clinic in par...
  4. I'm loving Community Health nursing

    Al Kalosis, it's always worth giving them a call and seeing if they're interested in hiring an RN - the place that I'm now employed at didn't have any job openings listed; I just emailed them and asked about the potential of applying for employment. ...
  5. I'm loving Community Health nursing

    Surprisingly, my school cut the Community Health course/clinical for the RNs (they kept it for the LPNs, though). I never had the ability to see community health nurses work, so this is all new to me! I just figured that it sounded like something I w...
  6. I'm loving Community Health nursing

    Lil Nel - thank you! I'm already learning so much in the short time that I've been working here. :) Everline - I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person out of my graduating class (approximately 30 students) who went on to become a community health nu...
  7. If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    If I were going purely on my heart's desire, no concerns for finance/sustainability, I would have gone with photographer, as I have a natural eye for photography and tend to compose/capture lovely photographs.
  8. University of Southern Indiana

    I have many friends who are currently attending USI to get their BSN (they graduated from Ivy Tech with their ASN). USI is a respectable school for nursing, and from what I've seen the education quality seems to be better than Ivy Tech's. Even though...
  9. I can empathize with what you're going through. While in nursing school, I struggled with severe anxiety, panic attacks (complete with wheezing/stridor, curled up in the fetal position crying), and bouts of depression. In my estimation, approximately...
  10. I'm loving Community Health nursing

    Throughout the entirety of nursing school, I found myself feeling frustration at the heavy focus on hospital/bedside nursing. From the first day of clinicals to the last and during my time as a patient care tech in the hospital, I genuinely found no ...
  11. Shoes, uniforms, shower after clinical?

    Depends on the day. If it's a clinical day where I'm doing more observation, I generally don't shower. If I've been elbow deep in an incontinent patient's stool and urine all day.... Different story. I will shower when I get home from my tech job bec...
  12. Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    I'm currently a tech at a decent sized hospital (until I graduate in May... Yay!). Just last week, I was busy doing morning care, everything was a little chaotic, requests flying like bullets... You know the drill. As I was helping a patient use the...
  13. Questions About Carle Hospital (Urbana/Champaign)

    Catlady257, thank you so much for your response! I plan on applying once I get home from clinical this afternoon.
  14. Hello! I will be graduating with my ASN this summer and plan on moving to Urbana/Champaign, IL. I have been looking into Carle hospital as a place of employment, and I have a couple of questions... Thank you in advance! :) Note: I do know that I will...
  15. Do you study over the summer?

    Break? What's that? Joking aside.... I'm working on my ASN/ADN right now (last semester.... whew!) and last summer I had to take microbiology and I worked. This summer I plan on doing some NCLEX style questions, reviewing common diseases/illnesses, ...