psychnurse127

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1. Work from home nursing jobs

   psychnurse127 replied to Brighteyes67's topic in General Nursing

   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...

2. Long Term Care Nursing is Lame

   psychnurse127 replied to purplegal's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   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...

3. Best strategies to deal with verbal abuse from patients?

   psychnurse127 replied to mmjp77's topic in Psychiatric

   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...

4. Tips on getting a job in utilization review/utilization management

   psychnurse127 replied to Sbates20's topic in General Nursing

   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...

5. Utilization review nurse info?

   psychnurse127 replied to Gambatte17's topic in General Nursing

   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...

6. How to be a Utilization Review Nurse?

   psychnurse127 replied to Mccam's topic in Case Management

   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...

7. For New Grads -YES you can do psych.

   psychnurse127 replied to Psych_Nurse89's topic in Psychiatric

   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...