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What I find strange is that a MA is training you?! And giving you orders and duties? Isn't there someone who is above him/her that should be training you? Being blunt here, but I wonder if the MA is just angry because they aren't a nurse and they have to train someone who is being paid more than they are. Just a thought. I would talk to your supervisor.
zombieghoast
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I am a new nurse and I started working for a specialty Dr's office for almost two months and I feel stressed about my job. I have worked as a school nurse for 2 years prior and I just feel like I can't do anything right. I'm working for a small office with a lot of patients. It's two doctors, two MAs, and a RN who's me. The main MA has 8 years of experience and I always feel dumb or feel like I am doing something wrong. I don't know if it is me but I don't feel like I am being trained effectively to take on the role as the RN. I have been rooming patients along with helping the doctor with procedures but my main duty should be triage, phone calls, scheduling surgeries, and then just being the leader. I have spoken to the supervisor and the MA about this and telling them I want one on one training because I can't be effective if my training is "you just gotta pay attention to me when I do this but you gotta room patients when the doctor is here". I like to ask a lot of questions just to make sure I am doing something right because I don't want to make a mistake but I will get, "I already told you how to do this." This MA knows that she is impatient and is not a good teacher. Just the other day i was on the phones when the doctor wasn't in the office and the MA told me I needed to be doing pre-certification. I have never done one before and so my first one took me 30 minutes and i only got a few done in that day because I was busy with phone calls. The MA at the end of the day in a way put me down and made me feel bad by telling me, "well you got only one done today and can't you move faster?" I wasn't messing around by not doing anything and I tried to explain to her that I am new and haven't done this before and for her this is nothing. She went on lecturing me for about 20 minutes about what I should be doing as a nurse and I am really trying to do my best. Then today i come into work stating i want to do phones when doctor is in office and shes like, "oh well i gotta ask him if he is comfortable with that". She's a great worker and all but I am just at a lost right now. She also states that she doesn't like repeating things because then she said that if I know I can ask them a lot then I will never do it on my own because she said that's how she is. I'm an independent person and if I can take care of something on my own then I will. she also casts a lot of doubt on me because my very first day she said, "this job is a lot are you sure you will like this?" And just keep asking me this question. I just feel stressed because of the pressure and I want to know what I should do or what.