US Nurse - Jobs for Enrolled Nurses?

[Mitzy Bastida]

Hi all,
I'm moving to AU soon to be with my husband. Background - I am an LVN (equivalent to Enrolled Nurse) Case Manager for a healthcare insurance company. I work directly with Dr.'s, hospitals, patient's and assist in things like care plans, discharge planning, processing discharge orders, setting up home health, transfers, outpatient procedures, nursing home placement, you name it..I do it.

All my work is office-based..documenting, telephonic. I know AU has a different healthcare system. I am just at a loss as I have been searching for similar job posts and I cannot find any. It's even harder because 1) Don't see many opportunities for Enrolled nurses and 2) I'm making almost six figures a year and I fear I may have to take a giant paycut, especially since I'm not an RN and I also have not done any direct patient care since nursing school (7 yrs ago)!

Can someone point me to the right direction as to what jobs I should be looking for - perhaps it's a different job title I should be searching for? Or am I just wasting my time if there is no such thing as case management? Is there anything else I might qualify for?

Thank you in advance

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

10 hours ago, sparticus2008 said:

That's a software package developed by Telstra to help hospitals with their patient flow.

Yep and Telstra are not happy more and more hospitals are transitioning to EMRs!

[Mitzy Bastida]

Wow! Thanks for letting me know. I had no idea.. It's overwhelming when our healthcare systems are so different and I have so much to learn about the AU one. We only use EMR's here, didn't occur to me that AU didn't. I was told by my fiancee's friend that a Patient Flow Manager did what I did - didn't think he meant it was a program - but they are in Computer Science, so that makes sense now.

Our system is just so complex because we're so over populated and we have many different insurances. We have Fortune 500 companies with thousands of employees just to manage one health plan.

AU only has 1 and a few private ones - but they're accepted at whatever Dr and hospital, I'm assuming?

It'd be easier if I did direct clinical care - that's the same pretty much anywhere. I have so much non direct clinical experience. I'm using that term loosely because AHPRA states non-clinical means
"(working) in a direct nonclinical relationship with clients, working in management, administration, education, research, advisory, regulatory or policy development roles, and any other roles that impact on the safe, effective delivery of services in the profession"

It would be a shame to have to start from the very bottom, it's very disheartening when I know my worth here. I don't think there's anything else to do but to look for an hiring agency to help me find a suitable position because I really don't understand or know about the non-direct clinical roles.

[Mitzy Bastida]

Just a quick update..apparently Patient Flow Manager is a new position at some hospitals. I was also advised to search for discharge planner positions or care coordinator.

Thanks everyone for your help.