cosmicmama BSN, RN

Hi, I have an MBA and a BSN, I work for a Fortune 50 health insurance company as a manager in case management. I have more education than all of my leadership team members, some of whom only have associate degrees but have been around forever. ...

What kind of case management will you be doing? Inpatient?

I can't believe no one has answered you. Try the big insurance companies, like United Healthcare, Anthem, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana. With your critical care experience, you should be an attractive candidate for a telephonic case manager or UM positio...

I've been a nurse for nearly 30 years. I've done my share of night shift, around 15 years total. About five years ago I left the bedside to do case management for an insurance company, and while working from home has been nice, the work doesn't feed...

I agree about the abnormal thing, hence the quotations. :) Thanks for your input!

Hi all, I'm a telephonic CM for a large insurance company, and I'd like to branch out and get some more diverse CM experience so I can do travel nursing in a few years (I travelled in the past as an L&D nurse, and always said I would do it again ...

And meanwhile, the number of nurses I have encountered in my career who are functional alcoholics is astounding. It is definitely BS that a nurse can be burned at the stake for smoking a joint while on vacation...but what can you do? Got to play by t...

Screw him, honey. You have a wonderful career ahead of you. Throw yourself into your future. One day you're going to be a successful nurse and he's going to realize how he screwed up, and then you will want to laugh in his face. I went through a div...

Try Anthem.com, United Healthcare, Aetna. I work for one of the big three listed above, and have worked in government business (Medicaid and Medicare) and in the commercial division. "For those who work from home are you able to travel while doing t...

I just had a 35 minute phone interview for a Nurse Case Manager with Wellpoint. Boy, was it tedious!! Lots of those questions that I hate, ie. What are your strengths/weaknesses, tell me about a time when you had a conflict at work and what did you...

Lakegirl, it is in the Work at Home agreement, only cable and DSL hard-wired internet allowed. It's a security and a reliability thing. Well, this is a really old thread. I've been in my case management job with Anthem for almost four years. There ha...

Hi all.....after 22 years of diverse nursing experience, I am thinking of taking a DON position at a gorgeous 146-bed SNF near my home. I recently graduated with my MBA in Healthcare Management, which is why they called me for an interview in spit...

Thanks all, I declined the offer. It seemed like a great facility with happy staff, but my gut was telling me not to do it. Appreciate the words.

Hi all...I've been a nurse for decades, I'm asking this for my daughter in law. We (the entire family) want to move to a beach town that is an hour from the nearest college with a nursing program. The problem is my DIL wants to go to nursing schoo...

After being a nurse for over 20 years, I completed my BSN at WGU in 2013. I'm now doing my MBA in Healthcare Management there as well. WGU is legit! Very affordable, non-profit, and you will get a good education. The BSN was easy for me, all thos...

Vabeacnurse, Yes, you should get a phone. Some of the people in orientation with me hadn't gotten their phones, then they had to scramble to get it and set it up when they got home from on-site training so they could take part in on-the-job-training ...

No, I didn't, but I had 20 years of diverse nursing experience including ER, OB, a little MDS in long term care, and a little home health.

My office in in Virginia, but I live in NC about two hours away. They require you to be within traveling distance to the office.

I LOVE it! Honestly though, I'm working under a new program and we still haven't got fully rolling yet, I'm expecting things to get much busier in the future. Right now my day is really flexible. (I have set hours, but I can throw in a load of laun...

You're familiar with Wellpoint, you just don't knowit. Wellpoint is the largest managed health care, for-profit company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield IS Wellpoint. I am currently working for Wellpoint. ...

I didn't get my background check info request until after my interview, and the same week as my offer. I think if Hire Right has already contacted you, that's a really good sign. They aren't going to spend the money to do a background check on you if...

A lot of people think that travel nurses are rolling in the dough. Not true. The money is maybe slightly better than staff pay. The monetary benefits come in tax benefits, and some people pocket a lot of their housing costs if they travel alone and...

No, I start orientation July 7th. Just a couple more weeks! It seems like it's taking forever to get here.

I had a screening call with an Aetna/AHH recruiter about six weeks ago for the same thing. She said she would pass my file on to the next step and someone would be calling me for an interview. Never heard back from them to set up an interview, altho...

ER_RN07, it's been a couple of weeks, how's it going on your new job?