What are some good jobs for nurses? I work at a busy hospital and am really stressed out and a friend told me to check out insurance jobs.
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well the gas prices and the nursing shortage are contributing to the ongoing short staffing at Home Health Care Agencies. You know those supposed "heroes" that would take of your loved one so they can be discharged after their days are denied by Anthem. The people who take care of home infusions, dressing changes, vent dependent children.
so to recap, are patients now on the hook for unapproved days when there is no where to safely discharge them due to lack of available staff. Home Health doesn't pay by the hour nor do they pay for mileage/gas - hard to make money when gas eats up your salary
The negative comments about the worth of nurses made on this post mimic the opinion and treatment of nurses by leadership (lower case on purpose) at Anthem. These people are also nurses but consider themselves smarter and superior to essentially every nurse who reports to them - even though they have significantly less clinical experience than their direct reports. No one values them at this company -
Nurses at the bedside are treated poorly by patients regularly especially worsened during Covid - they don't get raises and work short staffed.
All these negative comments just contribute to an increasing nurse shortage when older nurses leave. Who wants that job.
@w9 Yes I hope I don’t have to get life saving treatment from the self important incompetent ones.
@wj Exactly! If a person has a negative opinion on nurses there was usually something that caused it. It’s because nurses a fu--ing full of themselves and now dealing with nurses in the hospital is insufferable. It’s all about them now.
@w9 Bern hospitalized couple of times and was t overly impressed by nurse. In fact they bitched about their job a lot. I started to think. Hmmm who is the patient here. My husband was in ER and nurse seemed to think she knew more than the doctor and was openly questioning why doctor was admitting my husband. Dealt with rude a-s nurses when parents were hospitalized. I stand by nurses aren’t that great. A lot of sub par ones working.
It is American nurses Elevance doesn’t want. If you are a nurse in an offshore country Elevance will hire you.
@qz only vital until AI is trained. Again, Elevance is riffing nurses every round it seems.
@q1 in case you didn’t know, this is a healthcare business….. nurses are the link between services and payment of claims…. No more important than others, but they are vital to this company.
@pm Who cares. Nurses are annoying and think they are all “heroes”. You’re not. And obviously again if you were so important to the org they wouldn’t be riffing you. Save your outrage for people who care. You’re not more important than anyone else getting riffed but the fact that you think you are proves my point.
@p9 might want to look at the average age of nurses. Its pretty clear.
@kb it’s obviously not that much of a nursing shortage if Elevance is riffing them in droves.
@ft thanks for the rudeness - I am a nurse here - and you just proved what a chithole this place is and chased a nurse away in the middle of a nursing shortage - thanks for calling the poster a troll.
@eh That's what some of the AI projects are looking to automate.
Don’t feed the obvious troll.
Utilization Management and Case Management are allows hiring
@e7 an offshore nurse makes a third or a quarter of what they pay an onshore nurse at these insurance companies. They even help them obtain their US license so they can work for them. They will offshore anything and everything that they can for as long as they can. Part of Carelon is offshore and it has continued to grow. This is the business model.
@e7 a lot of nursing jobs at insurance companies are HEDIS related. They are going through medical records and documenting services.
@b3 How can nurses be offshored - don't you need a US nursing license
Sorry, but I cannot recommend health insurance companies as an alternative. They are actually offshoring the nurse positions too. Lots of nurses in the US were riffed over the past three years in the health insurance field.