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University of Wisconsin

I do Medical Management for a state based insurance company.

My job includes Inpatient Review of our members admitted to a large University Hospital. I assist with discharge planning to Acute Inpatient Rehab Units, Long Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACH), Skilled Nursing Facilities and home with home care. We use Interqual criteria to determine the medical necessity of a service.

I do Utilization Review for prior authorization of procedures, out-of-network care and durable medical equipment.

I assist in review of medical policies, research and updating the policies. I am currently on a committee to write a orientation manual for our department. 

I work 10 hour days with one day off. I am located in a 4 story building with several different departments in the building. We work in the same location in "pods" so we have quick access to co-workers and supervisors.  we frequently need to collaberate or just share a case. Our Medical Director is easily accessable. 

It is sometimes difficult to deny a service because a member does not meet the medical policy criteria. It takes some time, compassion, listening and explaining to help those members understand and accept the decision. Re-direction can be helpful in these cases.

I enjoy using a different type of nursing skill set to do this job. I have worked in insurance for 11 years and my previous experience as a hospital nurse, elementary school nurse, medical director at a camp for the disabled and as a nurse in a family practice office have all contributed to my success in this current position.

I worked for University of Medical Foundation for over two years. This organization is devoted to improving the health of people in Wisconsin. During a typical day, I enjoyed the wide variety of tasks I completed including answering phone calls, greeting and directing visitors, ordering supplies, scheduling complex meetings, and taking minutes at meetings. 

The most enjoyable part of my job was working on new projects. New projects would entail setting up meetings, contacting and working with appropriate individuals of other departments, creating time lines, managing to-do lists, and entering all project information in our CRM database.  I enjoyed the opportunity to teach new admin assistants about our department and teach them about our policies and procedures.  The hardest part of my job was learning a new web based application called "WorkSpaces" as there was no training class for this. I had to teach myself (and others) how to upload new graphics, upload pdf's, and manage user access.

One of the best things about working here is that co-workers and management are all supportive of continuing education and training. I had the opportunity to take new training classes each year to build upon my current skills and learn new ones. This past year I attended Advanced PowerPoint Class, Time Management Class, and a webinar on taking meeting minutes. I was also taking classes in the evening at the local community college and my supervisors and co-workers were all extremely supportive of my learning goals.

I really love working at UWM as a student union custodian. I have been working there going on 4 years now. I know just about anything when it comes to be a working custodian and also a hard worker as well. I pretty much just clean floors, table tops, sweep and mop, clean kitchen and bathrooms, and pull trash. I know all the cleaning materials that we use and I gained some experience of project work, for example stripping and waxing floors and auto-scrubbing and polishing floors too. There are only 2 reasons why I do not like working there, 1) the payment, when I first started working there in 2010 my wage was $7.50 and now 2014 and my wage now is $8.53. 2) There are two kinds of employment at UWM and that's a full-time employee and a student part-time employee which is the one I am. Since I am a student worker I can only have my job if I am enrolled in school which I currently am but if I'm not I would not be employed there. I tried to go for full-time employment but they are booked. Overall I really love working at UWM because its very diverse environment and you will meet new people and see different events there all the time and there isn't really a dull moment there. I am a very hard working man who is looking for a new job for new experiences and also a new wage because I know after being employed for 5 hard years I deserve a better wage thank you Indeed.com.

During a typical day at the communications center, I provided a varied array of customer service over the telephone.  Calls came in from patients, physicians, staffs of other health care organizations, organ procurement organizations, and family members of patients. I helped each caller the best that I could and became very proficient in the wide variety of requests that came in. 

I confirmed and cancelled appointments, gave directions to our clinics, gave directions for procedure preparation, recorded new births, paged physicians for patient emergencies, paged physicians on the hospital overhead public announcement system, activated emergency code pages, and entered physician on-call schedules for various medical specialties.

The hardest part of my job was activating emergency code pages for heart attacks, strokes, respiratory failures, emergency medical responses, and behavioral distress. These codes must be done in a very timely and accurate manner and I became a pro at doing these.

The most enjoyable part of my position was that I know I made a difference each day by assisting patients over the phone in a kind, respectful, and courteous manner.

The management team was very responsive and provided excellent training on all aspects of the position.

A typical work day began with meeting with the lead professor to review the teaching syllabus and what would be covered for the week. Any challenges or breakthroughs with the students were discussed as well.

I learned how to maintain order and attentiveness in the classroom through games, bridgework, improvisation and discussion, I learned how to be an attentive listener, how to facilitate discussion and how to incite students to become active critical thinkers.

My co-workers were amazing in their support. We shared experiences with our groups, on occasion we would join groups together for discussions and improvisations, and we were there for each other when the classes were challenging. 

The plus side of the job: The class itself was the reason for going to work. Since I taught an Applied Theatre class that dealt with social justice issues, there were always current events that tied into the syllabus.

The down side of the job: Some days I barely had time between my classes and my TA schedule. Very little time to debrief, have lunch, or time to review material before rehearsals. Rehearsals were always immediately or 30 minutes after class ended, which again, left no time to fully prepare for rehearsals. Days like those usually required preparations that went well into the early morning, leaving little time for rest.

Working for UW-Whitewater as a resident assistant has been a life changing experience. In a typical day at work I got to meet with coworkers and discuss strategies for doing our job better, meet with residents and help them solve problems, listen to their issues, settle disputes and enforce residence hall policies. Through this job I learned how to lead teams and to help build others up into leaders, I learned how to effectively manage my time, and I learned an effective way to be social and friendly with all personality types which helped in keeping good relations even if I needed to document residents for breaking policies. My coworkers were all very professional and very helpful, we knew how to work together and support each other when needed. The hardest part of the job, for me, would be balancing between student and employee. I overcame this though by creating daily schedules where I could see what needed to be done so that I could finish my schoolwork and still make time for events I was helping put on or planning. The most enjoyable part of the job was getting to socialize and interact with a wide range of personality types. I believe that I can thrive in many situations where others might falter, one of them being in social interaction. This job helped me to become even better at effectively working with people of all types.

UW is a FANTASTIC environment for nearly anyone, and I can't recommend it highly enough! Not only are all employees paid a living wadge and fairly treated, but there are so many different possible job descriptions that many kinds of people can find work there. I left because I wanted to work with patients, not just in the building with them. My manager had issues fully staffing her department and spent a year denying my requests to transfer to a patient care job. Ultimately, I quit, in search of that patient care position of my dreams, but I miss my hospital terribly and hope to return some day in a different position. Management in my department was sometimes borderline hostile, but ultimately I understand their position and love UW, flaws and all. The campus is comfortable--the cafeteria is affordable and healthy, the outdoor seating areas great for breaks. UW offers great benefits, and the feeling you get, knowing you work for one of the greatest hospitals in the Midwest, working as one of 5000 employees of UW health, there is nothing like it. I wish my department issue could have been resolved another way, but I fully intend to return.

I love teaching at UW-Stout. I work with amazing people. I have a horrible commute (I drive 3 hours/day to teach) but it's such a great environment -- and they attract such quality students -- that it's a small price to pay for what I get out of it.

I am not a tenure track professor, so my experience as an adjunct instructor is very different. There are only two adjunct pay tiers and you need to teach five years to even be considered for the 2nd tier -- but with the overall UW system slashes and cutbacks, I've seen virtually zero salary increase in my time there.

I'm given a lot of flexibility to run the classes the best way I see fit using the methods I feel are most effective to teach the content. I get regular student feedback, but less frequent feedback from peers and supervisors on job performance. 

My feedback and input is taken very seriously, even though I am not tenure track. My involvement has helped to improve and reshape the degree program and I have also created a new class based on my area of expertise.

A typical day at work includes taking vital signs, recording inputs and outputs of patients, assisting with transfers and ambulation, recognizing changes in patients and reporting them to the nurse, aiding the nurse, feeding patients and assisting with activities of daily living, and charting using EPIC.  I have learned a lot while working at UW hospital.  When I worked on a surgical unit I learned a lot about urology, gynecology, plastic surgery and ENT surgeries.  I learned about signs and symptoms of concern.  I learned transfers and so many other things.  Now I work on a general medicine unit and I am learning a lot more about mental illness.  I also work with Dementia patients a lot more now than I did on the surgical unit.  Management at UW is extremely helpful and reliable.  The culture is varied, which makes for a comfortable workplace for everyone.  The hardest part of the job is time management when you have a lot of busy patients as well as trying not to get too attached to patients.  The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing improvements in patients day by day and watching them be able to go home.

As a Medical Records Float, I did more than just sit with one set of records for a particular department.  I handled many different department's charts, respectively.  Although, there were many departments, the procedures for them hailed out of one main medical records staffing, namely out of the Health Information Manager's Desk.  Also, procedures were written down, for everyone to follow on the same page. This job exemplified procedures the most, out of all the jobs I have held.  I thrived best in this environment.  I am by nature, organized and details.  This job brought out the best of me in this regard.  The most difficult part of this job was the cutting in line by others vying for the same spot in filling a employment spot that was vacating.  Really, a dog-eat-dog situation.  My job was going paperless.  There were more people wanting to fill the new position this wielded.  I liked this job the best, good benefits and insurance, yet I did not want to go through those dog-eat-dog loops to try and maintain a position in the company.  I sought to go back to school instead, combining my first two degrees to do so.

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Assistant professor 4 salaries reported	$80,149 per year
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Police officer 8 salaries reported	$33.97 per hour
Groundskeeper 3 salaries reported	$17.67 per hour

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