RNsub

You will definitely not be stuck! This position will give you great experience to move to a Kaiser clinic or other clinic. You would be doing triage which is an important skill in any nursing job. I have friends doing this job who love it.

I am an RN care manager, working for an insurance company. Our care managers are based in a hospital and do utizilation review and discharge planning for the admitted patients who carry our insurance plan. I do not like this job. My biggest pet peeve lately is the high amount of social admits. It is gross how many families basically abandon their loved one in the hospital. They can't take care of mom, so they bring her to the hospital for vague symptoms and then say they can no longer have mom in their home. Then they expect the hospital to find a facility or AFH. They continue on with their lives, not looking for a place, not caring at all, even though we explain it is their responsibility and pt may be billed for the hospital stay. Many don't care about being billed and blatantly admit they are not going to pay it anyway. The worst part of all this is how the hospital does nothing to back us up and expects us to find a "safe discharge plan." ***** When did we decide to take on the role of these people's life coaches and personal problem solvers? Why do people expect their insurance company to take care of finding their relative a home? Or pay for a nurse to come in and watch their relative 24/7? Rant over, time for a change.

hherrn, the OP is most likely taking Suboxone, a harm reduction medication with a very different mechanism of action than Methadone. To the OP, I wish you wouldn't refer to yourself as a loser. You are an addict with a disease, not a bad person. Congrats on all your hard work!