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  1. Are We Change Agents?

    d'cm replied to TheInclusiveNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Could nurses be change agents? Theoretically yes, practically.. NO. In my 30yrs experience I have found nurses to be highly risk adverse and almost universally corporate compliant. The most jarring...

  2. Health Insurance in America

    d'cm replied to Emergent's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    One of things people don't realize is that private health insurance is one of the primary reasons healthcare in the US to be so expensive. In a market economy, price is a function of supply and...

  3. Is Ai the answer to our problems?

    d'cm posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Hospital Medical Management and Utilization Review** In recent years, the healthcare industry has witnessed a transformative shift with the integration of...

  4. The case for Ai Utilization

    d'cm posted a topic in Case Management

    Streamlining Utilization Review Utilization review is a critical process in healthcare that ensures medical services are used appropriately and efficiently. Traditionally, this process has been...

  5. United Healthcare: RN Case Management Salary

    d'cm replied to May_2020's topic in Case Management

    started at 77k and after 11 yrs 88k. then they fired

  6. EKG order

    d'cm replied to cepr4's topic in General Nursing

    It's just this sort of BS that makes nursing a uniquely crappy

  7. Wisconsin Hospital Sues To Keep Employees

    d'cm posted a topic in General Nursing

    So a bunch of employees at Thedacare in Wisconsin got a better offer at another hospital - Ascension. The employees asked Thedacare if they would match the offer and were told no, so they went to...

  8. Wisconsin Hospital Sues To Keep Employees

    d'cm replied to d'cm's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for posting that. It was indeed a fair bit of

  9. Susceptible to Misinformation: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

    d'cm replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The best answers I have ever seen to this question can be found at : Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

  10. Is Case Management the right move?

    d'cm replied to RNdogmom's topic in Case Management

    Insurance company CM would definitely reduce your exposure to Covid - but not to regulatory

  11. New Nurse Case Manager

    d'cm replied to syronrs14's topic in Case Management

    It really depends on what population you will be working with. Insurance CM can be any number of different things e.g. Disease mgmt, inpatient your/DC planning, or LTC (MLTSS

  12. Unexplained Diarrhea and Weight Loss: What's going on? | Case Study

    d'cm replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    to build on Curious1997: The medical history appears to be entirely "per the patient", do we have any actual medical records to verify her

  13. How many jobs have you had in your career?

    d'cm replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    I've had at least 20 jobs in 25 yrs mostly because I would get fired. I think that should be some kinda record.

  14. Unexplained Diarrhea and Weight Loss: What's going on? | Case Study

    d'cm replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    Has the thyroid been fully evaluated by imaging and blood

  15. New Case Manager

    d'cm replied to nurseontheway's topic in Case Management

    Doubting yourself is a good thing, it keeps you vigilant. Making a big mistake at this point would be far worse than just not getting everything done. Doubt others also, discharge planning is all...

  16. Bombed my interview

    d'cm replied to RN1485's topic in Case Management

    for some reason I thought of

  17. How do you deal with workplace discrimination?

    d'cm replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    I doubt it was discrimination, just bad managerial skills. You'll find a lot of that in

  18. Case Study: Joint Pain, Rash, Hair Loss - What's Going On?

    d'cm replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    let's do an ELISA

  19. ANY Case Managers at United Health?

    d'cm replied to jk82's topic in Case Management

    United sees nurses purely as an expense. If regulations didn't require us they would not hire them. Evidence of this is that they have been profiting BILLIONS every month but nurses see literal...

  20. Hospital CM vs Insurance CM

    d'cm replied to nurseyNJNYC's topic in Case Management

    I loved hospital cm - it was fast paced, fully focused work and hours flew by, but was terrible at the politics and thus was unsuccessful at it. I do long term care CM for MCO now, work from home,...

  21. Hospital CM vs Insurance CM

    d'cm replied to nurseyNJNYC's topic in Case Management

    I've done both and there are a lot of differences. The core similarity is they both involve discharge planning and utilization review. The big difference is the professional/social/political...

  22. Hospital CMs - What's the most difficult part of your job?

    d'cm replied to yessica1831's topic in Case Management

    The most difficult? Knowing which of these duties is most important to someone over you and any given time. 2. Application of process improvement methodologies in evaluating outcomes of care 3....

  23. advice for new case manager insurance company

    d'cm replied to nurse_jer's topic in Case Management

    The actual work of an insurance company case manager is tightly defined by the company. Going in with preconceptions could be counterproductive. The only thing I would suggest is making sure you know...

  24. Do Hospitals Get Prestigious National Awards for Poor Nursing?

    d'cm posted a topic in General Nursing

    Read complete Article: Do Hospitals Get Prestigious National Awards for Poor Nursing? | Medpage

  25. how to land a case management job?

    d'cm replied to sunshine539's topic in Case Management

    Apply at United Healthcare. They are always hiring field case