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I am a med aide, and the facility that I work has us med aides do everything. meds, narcotics, insulin, treatments, dressings, charting, support plans.....you name it. they want us to take off doctor orders, which i refuse because according to the state we arent allowed, but they try!!!!!!!! we had aq 5 day class, now its down to 4 days and about a half an hour of actual hands on trainging on the floor before they stick you out there yourself terrible isnt it???

over here in Pa.....we only have a 4 day class, and we do everything. pass meds, narcotics, insulin, you name it...we do all the paperwork too.....what do you think of that??? isnt it terrible.....and I am one

oh yeah by the way, I had 4 days of training, and probably do more than you do, in the 6 months that it took you to learn this. Our med aides give out meds, give insulin, narcotics, paperwork, admissions, discharges, deaths,......support plans.......we are cheap nurses......just admit it!

I am probably the only Med Aide that agrees with all you nurses. But I started nursing school, although never finished. But i know how hard and demanding it is. And I feel like a hypocrite right now working as a med aide. It is terrible that the whole health care field is only concerning themselves with making and saving themselves a buck, and not the life of a human being.........:thankya:

i totally agree with you. I feel like a terrible person still working in that position. and i only do it, cause now i dont have to go to the chiropracter once a week. and it pays a little bit more. i also went to nursing school but never finished. so i do have a little more trust in myself than others that they just pull off the street and have them become med aides. what is it gonna take??? something really really bad to happen to a patient before they look into this more??????

Its a shame that you are a medication aide and dont see the reality of it all. I also work in the same sort of setting as you do. Yes the nurses have a ton of work, but it should never be allowed to have someone do the same type of work, and have barely an education. 6 months is nothing compared to going to nursing school. sorry if i sound rude. the only thing we med aides are, are a cheap nurse....and its not right.

i just posted an anwer to someone else ( i am new to this site, not sure how it works)but anyhow...i am a med aide....and i absolutely agree. I definately think it undermines a nurse. I did go to nursing school, but didnt finish. So fortunately I do have some medical background, and had pharm, and a&p. But, where i work, we had about 32 hours if that of classroom training. Basically, it teaches you to pop pills out of a card, and how to initial a MAR. Thats it. And because of staffing issues, you are lucky if they train you on the floor for more that one day (if that) We do give out all narcotics, and insulin. I absolutey think it is terrible. So much that it bothers me that i am one. I only did it because it is saving my back. Trust me, i have all the faith in the world of myself, but if i dont know something.....i wont do it. It is terrible the little amount of money i get paid to do exactly what the nurse went to school for....and it is most undermining of the nurse i am working with, that they allow me to do what she had work hard to get

i have to tell you,, i am a med aide. and where i work, no you dont have to be a cna...i am. but i refused to become a med aide for about 5 years...and only did to save my back. I think it is terrible, to trust people (anyone off the street) to sit throug 32 hours of class (if that) and then let them pass out meds...even give INSULIN!!!! believe me, i have all the faith in the world in myself....but so what. Its a sin to pay med aides practically nothing to do pretty much what the nurse is also doing.....and its a sin and a cut to nurses to trust us med aides to do a nurses job. the goverment really needs to put more thought into this whole thing....and it is a state by state program

I just want to say that I agree with all of you about this whole medication aide thing. How can you pay someone 8-10 dolllars an hour to do the same thing as what people go to school for, for 2-4 years....its nonsense. I am that someone. But i do agree, it is terrible. I kept refusing to do it for 5 years at my job, cause i didnt agree with it. But, for a little more money (and trust me, not much more than being just an aide) It has saved my back from so much pain.....and that is the only reason why i have done this.