Okay, so I've been a little behind on posting our advent activities but I just came off big stretch of working. And, I worked my last scheduled weekend this past weekend and only have 1 more holiday (Christmas) to work! That's right, starting in January I will be like most normal adults working 5 days a week as the clinical informaticist/case manager at the hospital. I still will be helping out as needed as a nurse working in all the areas at the hospital.
If you're wondering what a clinical informaticist is I am the liaison between the electronic health record and the end users (nurses, doctors, etc.) So I work closely with the doctors especially and helping them with using the electronic medical record, sit in a lot of meetings, and update our staff on changes and any issues. We are part of Unity Point Health systems so I work closely with corporate as well.
As the case manager, I work closely with the social worker and physician's again in determining what qualifies the patient to be at a certain level of care at the hospital. As most people know, insurance companies play a huge part in health care so I help and make sure we are compliant with insurances (mostly medicare/medicaid) and that the patient can stay with certain diagnoses and the plan of care.
It is definitely a big change working 5 days a week! It will be nice to have weekends and holidays off but I miss my 4 days off a week and time with Oliver on our days off. I do like though that we get to eat breakfast and supper together as a family every day!
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