JeanthePHN

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1. Medical Assistants in the office

   JeanthePHN replied to SHELLYBELLYRN's topic in Ambulatory

   Thank you for the reply about the AAMA organization. That is a helpful reply. I was so upset about this I went to the local hospital and applied for a job so I could work with real nurses and real LPN and CMA. I was totally shocked when the nurse rec...

2. Medical Assistants in the office

   JeanthePHN replied to SHELLYBELLYRN's topic in Ambulatory

   I know the ANA isnt involved with laws but I have contacted the Mass BORN and it is allowed in Mass to have unlicensed and untrained people as medical assistants. On the job training under the physician is allthat is required. I still can not believe...

3. Medical Assistants in the office

   JeanthePHN replied to SHELLYBELLYRN's topic in Ambulatory

   I sat here reading these posts from the beginning (2001 or so) I am an ofice nurse, an RN, and have had this med. assistant versus nurse problem for several years now. I have been in a private, two doctor office for three years now. He just hired a ...

4. cant get job in office setting

   JeanthePHN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I moved to cape cod two years ago to work for the Phone company. I left my job within one year. It was a sales job. For a year and a half now I have been trying to get a job here and cannot get one. I am ignored by the hospital because of my 9 years ...

5. Could THIS Be the Cause of the Nursing Shortage?

   JeanthePHN replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

   well I dont agree. I am 40 and had 2nd generation immigrant parents who never graduated from high school and worked menial jobs all their lives and told me to "be a nurse cause nurses always have work" I was so shy and naive and ignorant when I was ...

6. are there any internships out there?

   JeanthePHN replied to Hope4's topic in General Nursing

   Try the web site for Northeastern University in Boston. Also, when I went there they did not have any co-ops (internships) 70 miles away and I made my own with my local hospital. why cant you do that?

7. MA's being used as "nurses"

   JeanthePHN replied to Jeanbean's topic in Ambulatory

   Now these posts are old but here is my 2 cents....I foolishly went in nursing in 1980 because, at 20 years old, I did not have much career choices. Girls who grew up in the 60's and 70's did not become rocket scientists. The hospital school of nursin...

8. Office Nurses' Salaries

   JeanthePHN replied to KarenS's topic in Ambulatory

   Well, I cant believe some of those good salaries! As a PHN, in 2000, I made 16 hr after 8 years. I worked at Pediatric Associates in 1994 and started at 14hr. I am going for office jobs now and the pay is 13, 14, 15 an hr. I recently was turned down ...

9. Aromatherepy

   JeanthePHN replied to Janet Blackstock's topic in Pediatric

   goodness some pedi nurse actually here!!! I give shots to a lot of kids and adults and I use the""" blow the pain away""'techinque and all the other nurses think I am nuts. But the patients love it, so i keep doing it. I dont use aroma therapy in ash...

10. Incompetent nurse

    JeanthePHN replied to JeanthePHN's topic in Safety

    Well, money is not involved. The Health dept does not get money, bill insurances,or anything like that. We have a tax supported budget and all of our services are totally free. And once a person is politically in a city job there is not much that can...

11. Incompetent nurse

    JeanthePHN replied to JeanthePHN's topic in Safety

    Thank you all for replying..but documenting wont help here. I work for the Health Dept and all we do is give immunizations once week and give people health information on dieseases. Documenting the fact that this nurse gives children the wrong vacci...

12. Incompetent nurse

    JeanthePHN replied to JeanthePHN's topic in Safety

    Well, Sophi, I work for the Department of Health!!Now what do I do?

13. Incompetent nurse

    JeanthePHN posted a topic in Safety

    I work with a nurse who is mentally slow because of some phychiatric illness she has or because of menopause or something. I only work in a clinic so no one is dying here.I know that Managment is protecting her. She is getting worse and as the years ...

14. Ambulatory Care Nursing

    JeanthePHN replied to KelleyAnn's topic in Ambulatory

    If you can get one of these sought after jobs in ambulatory care as a new grad I would be very surprised. Dont count on it. Those jobs go to the politically connected wives, sisters, girlfriends who dont HAVE to work. ------------------

15. Where do older nurses go?

    JeanthePHN replied to Tom brenner's topic in General Nursing

    Older nurses go into school nursing and public health nursing. Two reasons...they have a power base that gets them in politically, they have a husband who gets them in to these types of jobs, and because these jobs are easier, these nurses stay and t...