I recently interviewed with another company and the doctor that interviewed me is a specialist. I was somewhat surprised at what was said. I will try and keep this from being to long.
anywho, I was told that the nurse who works for him will need to know what he knows about his work and all that he knows, they need to be a really smart person. That the nurse will need to be doing alot of reading about his specialty and understand it. This docter stated that he would teach his nurse how to suture, give botox injections, remove lesions and what ever he decides to teach (0f course if the nurse is willing to learn). This doctor also said that it is within the law for him to delegate these tasks as long as he has trained the nurse to do them. He also stated that he could teach his nurse how to do brain surgery if he wanted too. Told me that he double books and works through lunch. He also told me to take some time and think about it because he did not want someone to start and quite in 2 months.
Well I do not mind doing alot of reading and I do believe that the nurse should have a firm understanding of the specialty they work in, my concern is the suturing, removing lesions and giving botox injections. I do believe this is not allowed in my scope of practice. I am an LPN and it concerns me that the doctor tells me I can do anything under his license if he trains me.
Well I personally do not feel right about this and I feel that I would be putting my hard earned license on the line.
I was just wondering what everyone else thought about this situation. Input is greatly appreciated.
