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  1. Managing Patients on the Outside of Hospitals

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  2. Anyone have experience with Travelers insurance as a CM?

    Have worked with travelers adjusters and MCMs a lot. They all pretty nice. You shouldn't have a difficult time fitting in. They're a big company and use a lot of case management vendors for their...
  3. Transition into insurance case management from the floor

    You will usually be responsible for working with a lot of adjusters. You need to think outside the box. Go further than what you just see but look into the future for possibilities of what could...
  4. Work from home jobs? RN, BSN, CCM, CHPN

    With the CCM you will have more choices. If you want to be totally at home you might look at telephonic positions with insurance companies. If you want to get out dome then opt for field case...
  5. WC CM Resources

    There really aren't any specific books for WC. This is a "hands on" learning and no amount of books will prepare you. Just don't wear your "feelings on your sleeve". It can be really tough. But don't...
  6. Genex Services

    Yep I have. Personal reasons for leaving. But get prepared to really work....all the time. They expect
  7. Work-Life Balance of Nurses in Case Management

    I agree. Any new job is like that. It gets easier the longer you do it. And I never quit learning. Every day. Never quit seeking new information or ways to interpret it. I can look at things now and...
  8. New WC CM Nurse

    I have learned throughout the years of doing this that I have one motto. "I do what is right". We can be put between the IW and the insurer. And I have learned to do the right thing. It always works....
  9. Work-Life Balance of Nurses in Case Management

    If you look at how many people work for Genex, this is a small amount. Look at reviews for other companies. It's the same. Don't let a few disgruntled former employees get in the way of an...
  10. New WC CM Nurse

    Go GrnTea! You are exactly
  11. It's hard to juggle all of the patients needs,the adjusters questions, the doctors orders, physical therapy progress and the employers determination they have a modified job for that employee within...
  12. How does this case management job sound?

  13. Help with choosing school for CCMC

  14. Everyone wants experience.

    If you get CM experience in home health or hospice that would work for most companies wanting CM experience. What they are looking for is your ability to be self motivated and get the job done without...
  15. Is a 3-day case management course worth it?

    i agree. You can study the study guides and buy the CDs with 1200 questions and learn a lot. I also did online CM courses that helped. But they were not that e
  16. CCMC vs ANCC

  17. Pay rate for RN case managers?

  18. I work in workers comp and had previous experience in hospice. They are so very different. Work comp is more demanding and you provide coordination of care and services for the injured worker. You...
  19. transfering to ut tyler

    UT Tyler looks at many things when considering you for the program. Having all your prerequisites are a must, but having other classes required really helps. From what I have heard and seen, the...
  20. Privatized Prisons

    I work at MTC in East Texas. It is a private prison, but is a treatment center as well. We have DWI, SAFPF, and ISF offenders. The company I work for is PNA, and we have about 26 facilities in...
  21. ANY other PRISON Director of Nursing?

    I'm a DON in an Intermediate Correctional Facility, so maybe my problems are quite the same as yours, but they sure seem to be. I am have been in this position for a short time, and before I came, it...
  22. How safe is it, really?

    I have met nicer nurses working in corrections than anywhere else. After being in the ER, some of the ER nurses think they are so good, and they are, but the attitudes are really bad sometimes. I've...
  23. How safe is it, really?

    I also was an ER nurse at a Level One Trauma Center, and am now DON in the medical unit of an intermediate sanction facility. The offenders at this facility are parole violators or waiting for SAFPF....