I went back to the ENT today. I had a chance to talk to the former medic who had given me the injection last week. First I apologized to her for what I had said last week. She said she had not taken it personally, knew I was feeling very bad and thanked me for being concerned about her feelings.
She said she had gone home that night and discussed it with her dh (in medical field also) and she said they talked about how the office personnel does refer to all the MA's as nurses and that it really was not a good thing, it misleads patients and besides it's just wrong to claim a title that you don't have. She did not realize that it was illegal and said she was going to talk to the staff and the MA's about using their proper title. She said, however, that things may not change because those particular MA's think they are nurses in every sense.
I asked her why she had not been able to get her LPN? She kinda rolled her eye's and said "it's a sore subject with me" She has actually done all of her BSN minus clinicals and she will go next year to a local university to do clinicals and plans to get her MSN so she can teach nursing.
She told me how it was being a medic for 10 years in the middle east, mostly Iraq. The injuries were horrendous, they were constantly in code status, the things the Iraqi people did to their own people were unbelievable. She said she would never forget the things she had seen. She said she had learned a lot and felt as qualified if not more so than some of the nurses she worked side by side with but even though she knows she's not a nurse until she has her license in hand. She said I'm not even an MA, how about that?
