psychnurse127

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  1. Work from home nursing jobs

    I used to work from home as a utilization review nurse. I worked for an insurance company that dealt with workers compensation cases. In my experience, I sometimes felt like I was literally chained to my desk. I was being monitored on every phone cal...
  2. Long Term Care Nursing is Lame

    I currently work in geri-psych and I always tell my coworkers who have second jobs in LTC that I have so much respect for anyone who works in LTC. Since I work in an acute setting, my patient ratio is 6 to 1. And some days I feel so overwhelmed. I ca...
  3. Best strategies to deal with verbal abuse from patients?

    I work on a geri-psych unit and my patients are mainly diagnosed with dementia. And sometimes I am shocked at the words that come out of my patients mouths. The only thing that I feel like I can do is not take anything personal. Because one minute my...
  4. I worked for an insurance company as a UR nurse and I felt very overwhelmed and overworked. Everything was about productivity and was all about quantity vs quality. Makes sense because the more cases we completed, the more money the insurance company...
  5. Utilization review nurse info?

    I know your post is over a year old but I figured my post could maybe help someone searching for the same question. I was in a similar situation and felt burnt out by floor nursing. I wanted a change and applied to any position available. Lo and beho...
  6. How to be a Utilization Review Nurse?

    It really just depends on the setting that you apply to. Inpatient settings usually prefer experience/require years of UR experience. Insurance companies prefer the UR experience but do not require. I can only speak for insurance company UR. I worked...
  7. For New Grads -YES you can do psych.

    How have you adjusted working at the VA? I too was a new grad that started my first RN job in psych (more in particular geri-psych) in the private sector for 4 years. However my unit admitted patients with IV fluids, foleys, GT feedings, etc. We are ...