One RN

Also in CDI; in my own way, I can relate to providers not wanting to take advice from an RN or that they want to do it the way they'll do it without adapting to 'best practice' or even more efficient use of the application. For those of you in CDI and to 'Not Sure of Career Path', it's your life and you deserve to be happy. Go get it. Stay where you are patiently, use the good mind you have to find the next step, and do what you are good at doing. The right things will fall in place for that to happen. I encourage you to leave for that better opportunity. Nothing will be perfectly perfect, yet you'll know it when it arrives so you can use your talents and skills. Your patients and those whom you'll serve are eagerly waiting for you.

Keep an eye out for clinics which may be hiring Specialty MDs/DOs or Primary Care Providers. Those Providers will all need a Triage Nurse or Rooming Nurse (typically LPNs)- if you can sell your skills from inpatient nursing which rounds out your clinic experiences, you may be able to show them it's worth hiring you. Make friends with Pharmacists hired as Medicine Therapy Management personnel (teach patients about new meds prescribed or overall medication management and teaching); they could teach you a lot. Take extra classes on diabetes, see about getting certified as a Diabetic Educator so you could teach patients about managing various stages of pre-diabetic and actual diabetic diagnoses. Take heart; nursing schools have to get 'with it' and start including ambulatory concepts and having ambulatory clinical time. Way back when I was a new grad 30+ years ago, 'they' were saying then that clinics of the future would be as big as hospitals were then and hospitals would be a small as clinics were then. I am seeing clinics adding floors building UP and no more hospital additions/expansions because the focus has been outpatient treatment and NOW there are governmental financial rewards for keeping patients OUT of the hospital. Pretty soon, there will be much FEWER opportunities for inpatient care. Go get, 'em, Lemon Bars!

I have seen many attorneys and their paralegals being laid off right and left over the last 6-7 years; I interviewed attorneys for non-legal industry temp jobs equivalent to $30K annual salary, so they were serious about getting work until their next attorney opportunity. Many moved across the country to get work. If you want to be an attorney, find your niche; it should be well-defined and unique. Many lay-offs are intended to cull the dead wood (read: non-productive). Skip extra education to work in the legal world as a nurse; just get started doing it. Follow the attorneys, RN attorneys and legal nurses and ask questions. Then decide which educational route to take

Glad it's done- I bet you did well. Sorry- don't know why I didn't get that other message. Bye for now.

What's the best way to reach you, Shannonrose13? I don't have enough topics to qualify for Private Messaging yet.

It's never easy for persons who truly wish to be gracious or kind but just end up blurting things out as a matter of course. Sometimes it takes time to overcome these quirks or bad habits especially remembering that the conversation can ALWAYS be within earshot of the one who is the subject of the conversation. The charge nurse's lack of charity in speech may come from a long history: maybe s/he was brought up in a ‘world' where persons were that blunt so it became a habit for that person, maybe the circumstances were rushed at that time and the charge nurse didn't have a clearer ‘head'. Many persons have a habit of speaking too fast or, rather, being thoughtless and rushing through a situation like a bull in a china cabinet while reacting and then speaking wrongly. I have certainly known nurses who created trouble for themselves because no one recognized this in them and/or never offered constructive criticism privately to help them be better. This gets to be a bad habit and not meant to be hurtful. We're all human and it's frustrating for some of us to be patient with this but we are all trying to be better. So perhaps one could take that charge nurse aside to acknowledge a difficult situation, mention something good that came of it so as to not hurt his/her own feelings and offer better, more tactful descriptions of the student nurse which would give that Charge RN something to consider that'd be helpful for the next time.

I hope you are doing well, Kusini, on ou project. I am new here to this site and JUST now found the Informatics section. If you need another one to interview, I am happy to assist. Will PM you...

If you and your pals, Genista, ever check back here & for all the newbies: the link below will take you to a very good place to obtain certification in Coding, ICD-10 and AUDITING! You can do this online and the trainer offers live classroom instruction which is the BEST! RN-Coder | Diamond Bar, CA