I've been a certified hospital case management RN for many years and at one point decided to get my Masters'-I was not interested in management (been there, done that) or academia at the time so I earned my MBA. I do think it gives me a unique perspe...
Hospital case management is a great specialty but it will take some time for you to feel proficient. I'm an experienced hospital case manager at a 700 bed level 1 trauma center and there are many, many days that I run into a situation I've never enco...
You could apply but without a solid clinical base in the area of case management desired (I.e. acute care, population health, primary care) it would be pretty difficult. School nursing might prepare you to do peds case management, particularly in a p...
Congratulations on your unexpected but beloved bonus baby! It seems like a bad idea to leave mid contract, but if the pace and demands are affecting your health (and by extension, the baby's-though those little passengers take everything they need fr...
IMHO you are in a good place for someone new to practice. ICUs in teaching hospitals are wonderful places to work (and I know, having worked at a Level 1 trauma center ICU) but can be an overwhelming place to work while you are getting your feet wet....
@rainmom....Preeclampsia and eclampsia can surface prior to delivery, during the peripartum period, or during the 6 week postpartum period!!!! What the heck is wrong with your obstetric unit???? If they can't manage postpartum onset hypertensive diso...
This would necessitate a social service consult to assist with either scouring the landscape for family, friends, faith community to come take supervision of the child (or even stay with the child at the bedside while arrangements are made) versus a ...
It is a tragedy and so terrible to think people are still being targeted for who they love. All thoughts and prayers still going out to all affected by this senseless act of cruel hatred. BTW...Straight but not narrow! Hatred cannot stop our seeking...
@Marilyn411...OP seems to be one of many newly entered into our great profession who are extremely dissatisfied right out of tbe gate. I am a case management nurse now but prior to going to CM i had varied acute nursing experience x years, been a nur...
Fyi, agree case management is less physically demanding but our liability is no less. The burden of ensuring a safe and effective discharge plan for patients is a heavy one. Our clinical assessment of the patient, knowledge of entitlement regulations...
Elkpark, your program sounds a lot like my ADN program. We were responsible to go to the clinical site a day before to research our patient and had to be prepared to address whatever disease process was affecting them. Pre and post conference were he...
Did you really apply for and accept a case management job not understanding what it entails? Can you envision a nurse landing next to you on the tele unit saying s/he didn't know anything about tele but thought s/he'd give it a whirl? Not trying to s...
Typical week for me: clinical twice weekly at different sites, one a good 45 minutes away from the college. Would compare it to a part time gig. ADN, so by 4th semester we were team leader with an assignment of 3-4 patients on 3-11, community hospita...
At the risk of sounding old school...students have changed a lot as a group. There is a sense of entitlement and an undeserved superiority complex that sometimes comes across. When we were students, we recognized and respected that the nurses teachin...
Please, please, please do yourself and your patients a favor and do NOT become a hospital nurse case manager (or perhaps, a case manager in any setting). We are out there on the front lines just as much as you are at the bedside, just in a different ...
