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  1. Did you leave bedside nursing?

    rearviewmirror replied to NurseMegIBCLC's topic in Nursing Career

    Still hate it, but would never go back to hospital. I am very jaded and very much hate nursing career (or the healthcare field in all spectrum including the hospital's business system and the crooks...

  2. Different fields desk jockey RN can go

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, unfortunately that appears to be the case. Lol, I can't imagine applying for most of these jobs with

  3. Different fields desk jockey RN can go

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in General Nursing

    When I started out nursing, it took me 6 months to find out that bedside was not where I belonged. Luckily after few years, I landed a UR job in insurance company, and since spending 2 years there, I...

  4. 2018 Nurse Salary

    rearviewmirror replied to #MakeItRain's topic in General Nursing

    I work currently at Insurance UR department, reviewing cases based on medical necessity. I barely paid any dues at the bed-side compared to other RNs in this area, but man oh man I am happy to made...

  5. Cleaning Comodes??

    rearviewmirror replied to Kristinalynn808's topic in General Nursing

    I am surprised they haven't made you guys lick the floor clean. When I used to work in the ER, we had to clean the rooms and wipe the bed and make new bed regularly because there was no way for house...

  6. Tired of jumping jobs, does anyone like her job?

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in General Nursing

    After hopping between 5-6 jobs in last few yrs, and finally saying good bye to patient care, I spent 1.5 yrs at utilization management job, stuck in a cubicle and having to worry about cases that come...

  7. Tired of jumping jobs, does anyone like her job?

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I meant to specify I hate acute care, you know, lifting + 250lb, changing pans or wiping, running amok, dealing with family, dealing with ER patients faking seizure, dealing with people demanding...

  8. Tired of jumping jobs, does anyone like her job?

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I read previous threads about this, and amb surgery, pre-op, pacu seems to be good options. Of course, difficulty between jobs will vary by the facility and available resources, but as long...

  9. Why are nurses disrespected so much?

    rearviewmirror replied to fitfabfunnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    Supply and demand... sad but true. Nurses are dime a dozen to management, so they are okay with putting the nurses through crap and abuse, but providers, not so much. Many other factors engage in it...

  10. The things we put up with as part of the job

    rearviewmirror replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Well I am glad I got out of bedside and been doing UR for some time. I don't regret leaving the patient care one bit. One of the best perks of UR is you don't talk to patients. I do miss not working...

  11. ER nurse here, so what do you do as PH nurse?

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in Public, Community Health

    Hi, I have been doing bedside nursing for awhile and after transitioning to ER, I finally realized that bedside care is just not me. I am looking into lots of venues and PH/community nursing is a...

  12. Which Nurses Are Unhappy & Why (all levels)

    rearviewmirror replied to Icooka4u's topic in General Nursing

    not endorsing attitude about complaining without offering solutions.. but it's a different matter when the disatisfaction is in nursing is mostly caused by things that are outside their/our control,...

  13. How to be more mild mannered like doctors in stressful circumstances?

    rearviewmirror replied to Plumrose15153's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not much way around it... exposure and repetition. It's better if you are in environment that has higher frequency of chaos and critical situations, like ER and ICU (i.e codes, trauma, stemi, stroke,...

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

    rearviewmirror replied to Sbates20's topic in General Nursing

    I work at TPA, in my limited opinion, CM and UM are vastly different at least in insurance, non-hospital setting (in hospital CM would do everything including UM part). Since you mentioned UM, I take...

  15. No-Lift Hospitals in Texas?

    rearviewmirror replied to Happylady123's topic in General Nursing

    So true about equipments... remember having fancy hoyer lift but not a single time in the ed was it ever used... seriously no one has time for that. I remember having backache all the time, now that I...

  16. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    rearviewmirror replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    Ex- ED nurse, can relate... but then you're ICU so you probably hate ED too

  17. UHC work from home

    rearviewmirror replied to michiganRN5's topic in Case Management

    I work at UM at TPA, not CM but nonetheless a happy desk jockey; UM has way less patient/member interaction, reason I chose the job. General input regarding UHC from other coworkers has been less...

  18. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    rearviewmirror replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    I think he meant 25 year experienced RN, that would clinically correlate the most in this situation... but it is possible that he enrolled 1 yr old, 2 yr old, and 3 yr old daughters to online program...

  19. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    rearviewmirror replied to workingot's topic in Nursing Career

    Floatpool (resource RN) + Night + Weekends + few OT here and there = easily exceed 100k. Easy. That's my friend's situation in DFW in TX, and you can live really well with 100k in TX in my opinion. I...

  20. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in General Nursing

    I didn't become a nurse because I had a calling or anything. I was one of those few idiots in high school who had no dreams or aspiration, so my dad said "hey nursing sounds good" and I said...

  21. Excited!

    rearviewmirror replied to TravelRNdreaming's topic in General Nursing

    if one is this excited for quitting a job, and a hospital job at that, it's probably something I should be congratulating since the work condition was, highly likely, unfortunate at best.......

  22. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! Thanks for all the comments, I read through all of them and learned good bit. Got lots of different perspectives that I didn't know or maybe knew but didn't think of. Thank you for all the cents...

  23. I want to quit

    rearviewmirror replied to R8T3D_RN's topic in Emergency

    I am not a veteran but I had share of ERs, and ER is a tough place. You deliberately leave other tasks that are pending to do the most important ones, I mean shoot if you are caring for level 1 or...

  24. Be honest: do you feel valued by your employer?

    rearviewmirror replied to sunnyskies9's topic in General Nursing

    As far as I am concerned, I used to hate the high-uppers (the "they"), and I still hate them, but I moved out of direct patient care and hotelpital environment that tell you have to take injustice...

  25. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Well I was actually joking sarcastically when I said I got a key chain... which would have been worse actually if I got a key chain. What I am seeing is not the "educational elites" who put in hard...