Pros: great benefits, pto, patients, geographic area, supplemental material
Cons: the paperwork, the lack of staff retention, changing management, lack of support
Drive around to various patients houses everyday, case manage 20-30 patients, admit/discharge, provide extensive communication between office staff/managers, other disciplines involved like PT and OT and family to ensure efficient/appropriate/continuous levels of care provided. As an RN case manager it involved the most responsibility, the point person
– more... on every case involved and extensive amounts of paperwork, this required home life to have a make shift office and so the separation between work and personal life lacked substantially. There seemed to be a constant array of changing staff members in all disciplines as well as management/secretarial, the people were great, the idea behind how they wanted to execute the care and meet all the guidelines made sense but the implementation was lacking and often the staff were just given more and more to do. Quality of life lacked and therefore I chose to resign my post there.
Jodey, RN – less