cshelly12

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1. Hospice Physicians

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Hospice

   Can anyone tell me how you feel as far as how helpful the medical directors are at your hospice? I was previously a hospice nurse at a company where we had medical directors who were full time hospice physicians, and did nothing else. I have been i...

2. utilization review/case management recommendations

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Case Management

   Does anyone currently work remotely in utilization review or case management for a company they enjoy working for, feel you have a manageable workload, and are not super micromanaged? I currently work in utilization review for a large company in pri...

3. Insurance Case Manager Question

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Case Management

   Is anyone willing to share what a typical day in the life of a case manager working for an insurance company looks like? I know it can vary greatly according to the company, but just looking for some ideas. I currently work for a large insurance com...

4. Scheduling Hospice Visits

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Hospice

   How do you typically structure your day, as far as setting up visits? I find it difficult to leave less than a 2 hour gap between appointment times, because I never know how long the visits will take. For example, I typically schedule my patients a...

5. Arrival Time for Death Pronouncement

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Hospice

   I'm wondering what is the average/longest time it takes you to get to a death pronouncement? I am a fairly new hospice nurse, and work for a large company that is currently pretty well staffed, and feel like I have good support. I was stuck in a cr...

6. Medical Decision Making

   cshelly12 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a hospice admissions nurse, and frequently run in to the problem of patients unable to make decisions for themselves, and either don't have an MPOA, the MPOA is not present for the visit, and/or those who would be considered first in line to mak...

7. Home Health RN Question

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Home Health

   I am fairly new to home health and was wondering if anyone else has this problem I am about to mention, or if there is something I am missing. Sometimes, when I need to call a physician about one of my patients, I am not sure who is the actual physi...

8. Home health RN supervisory visits

   cshelly12 posted a topic in Home Health

   Hello, I work for a small home health care agency in Texas. I have been doing a lot of research on the frequency of requirements for RN supervisory visits for medicaid patients. All of the information I find is only relevant to supervision of HHA's...

9. laser hair removal nurse

   cshelly12 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was just wondering if anyone knew if you need to be an RN to be a laser hair removal nurse and if anyone knows what the pay in California is for one.

10. BSN clinicals

    cshelly12 replied to cshelly12's topic in General Nursing

    So then if you are in a RN-BSN online program, do you have clinicals?

11. BSN clinicals

    cshelly12 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question about BSN nursing programs versus the ASN. in the ASN program I know you have classes and clinicals for four semesters. So if you do the BSN program instead how long do the clinicals and classes last for this? Do you have clinica...

12. clinicals

    cshelly12 replied to cshelly12's topic in General Students

    So the days when you are not in clinicals are you just in a classroom?

13. clinicals

    cshelly12 posted a topic in General Students

    I am at a community college right now getting all of my general ed. and prerequisits done and I was wondering a few things about clinicals. How many days a week are they and do you have clinicals the whole time you are in nursing school?

14. working as a CNA

    cshelly12 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was wondering if working as a CNA would count as any experience as far as an RN. Also I was wondering what an acute care setting is.

15. working as a CNA

    cshelly12 posted a topic in Educators

    I saw a post from someone saying that while you are waiting to get into nursing school to work as a CNA. while you are waiting to get in, all you will have completed as far as school is you general ed. and prerequisites. Don't you have the have speci...