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  1. Applying for UR or Case Management Position... Need help!!!

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

    I recommend you elaborate on your admission and discharge experience, emphasize transitions to next level of care, pt ed etc. If you have a NY License and are willing to work in NYC, there are...

  2. HIPAA

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

    I like HIPPA. It is so much more descriptive of this big overweight scary law with one

  3. Scary scary nurse

    d'cm replied to JavaMama98's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I couldn't disagree with you

  4. Scary scary nurse

    d'cm replied to JavaMama98's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Remember this? "Charles Cullen, 43 and a male nurse, is among those healthcare professionals who apparently decided over the years that certain patients should die. When he was charged in two cases...

  5. Case management or homecare

    d'cm replied to amagg22's topic in Case Management

    Home care will give you invaluable experience for being a case manager. The demand for case managers is holding in this market so will most likely only

  6. Scary scary nurse

    d'cm replied to JavaMama98's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Report her to the

  7. How high is a blood pressure (tycally) when it causes someone to have a stroke?

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

    Highly doubt there is a "typical' but it's an interesting question. The American Heart Association collects this data on just about every CVA in the country, so I sent them an email with this...

  8. What if you do not think a pt is ready for discharge?

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

    Talk to the case

  9. Time to call a duck a duck?

    d'cm replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Hence, in one of my other posts, that, like plumbers, one of the main principles of nursing is that s__t runs

  10. Time to call a duck a duck?

    d'cm replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Great post and agree with every word. The important point here is how counterproductive the "nurse as professional" theory has proven to be. It's like an adult version of Santa Clause where we are...

  11. Psych Utilization Management

    d'cm replied to arg928's topic in Case Management

    I did psych UM as a temp and the day went pretty much the way you describe. I found it quite tedious work but the only really bad part was the total wack job who ran the

  12. medical records

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

    Neleh, I have to assume you are not a nurse or even work in healthcare or you would not be asking this question in this forum, and your allegation appears to be heresay. DonsterRN, the only way...

  13. Hello case managers

    d'cm replied to Destiny12's topic in Case Management

    I felt from very early in my nursing care that the most important role a nurse has is to be an advocate for the patient and that there were multiple forces pressing against the patient's best...

  14. Seriously...

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

    I really think the only way to do patient teaching right is to have a nurse dedicated to just that task. I worked in one hospital that had a "Discharge nurse" - not a case manager, on every unit. That...

  15. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    d'cm replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd like to be on one of them death panels that Sarah made up so I could tell families, " We aren't going to pay to keep your comatose vent / dialysis dependent Mom alive anymore. Now, would y'all...

  16. Help with 1st case management interview

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

    Start by anwering this question for us: Why do you want to go into case

  17. Average cost of LTAC?

    d'cm replied to corky1272RN's topic in Case Management

    There is no set per diem. If you mean the rate paid for short stays: Short stay outliers are defined as those patients with a length of stay between 8 days and two thirds of the arithmetic average...

  18. What did you do before you were a nurse?

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

    NYC cab driver, among other

  19. Studying nursing theory, came across Jean Watson

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

    Jean's work is just further proof of th first law of nursing...." s_ _ _ t runs downhill.

  20. If you can say one thing to your boss, what would it be?

    d'cm replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

    I wanted to say to my last boss, " You were the most intelligent, hardworking, caring director I have ever worked for. Not." But I just said,

  21. Whats it like being a guy in a female dominated career?

    d'cm replied to Josh_H's topic in Men in Nursing

    Working with women has been for the most part great, working for them has been a nightmare. I have had s few supervisors who were just bonkers with full blown narcissitic personality

  22. Can any one help with salary range?

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

    I expect you will not have much room to negotiate - if

  23. 60 hospitals cancelled due to health care reform

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

    this found in recent post by maggi mahar: http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2010/05/myths-facts-about-health-care-reform-the-impact-on-hospitals-community-clinics-nurses-physicianowned.html myth #3 new...

  24. Male Nurse considering the switch from M/S to Psych

    d'cm replied to Ace587RN's topic in Men in Nursing

    "a month of med surg ... since I have med surg under my belt"

  25. How many inpatient case managers work 7 day schedules as exempt employees?

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

    No, it's not the norm. It does not even sound