Should medication aides exist?

The concept of the medication aide is to invent a nurse that makes a CNA's wage. Administrators of LTC facilities drive $60000 cars and live in gated communities at the expense of the nurses and patients. Nursing skills belong to nurses only! As they are handed down to uneducated people one by one, the day will come we will all have a problem with it. It isnt necessary for administrators to get rich while compromising our careers and the welfare of the patients to get even richer. If we dont protect our skills, nobody else will either! Dont accept giving up even one!

OMG, I had no idea Texas only trains them for 10 hours. No wonder.

Sorry gotta disagree. Maybe not in hospitals but in ltc when I have had up to 36 pts I was glad to have a med aide.

I worked LTC for a few days. During that time on day 3 I was assigned a med-aide so that the RN and I could go over paperwork. Well, there was a sweet, quiet lady who just sat around in her wheelchair she did not talk much, always looked and acted lethargic. She was taking digoxin twice daily. So I watched the med aide take the apical pulse and give the med. I asked afterward what was her heart rate. Amazingly she calmly replies 50. The RN did not look worried either. The RN said, " Oh, she always runs low like that." I told the med-aide she was never ever to pass any cardiac meds for me. She then said " What does digoxin have to do with the heart?" So I said never mind I prefer to pass all my meds myself. OMG, I had no idea Texas only trains them for 10 hours. No wonder. The concept may have been ok but there is some serious need to look into their training.