North Carolina Professionals Against Medication Aides

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

The person giving your medication may have been trained in only 24 hours. Your next "nurse" may not really be a nurse! :stone

http://www.ncpama.org/index.htm

For more information, please visit the thread in the North Carolina Forum:

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1261291#post1261291

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

I think they have a valid concern. Will not give my opinion as I am neither a nurse or cna or in the healthcare field. Very interesting post, and thanks :)

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Specializes in Nursing assistant.
The person giving your medication may have been trained in only 24 hours. Your next "nurse" may not really be a nurse! :stone

http://www.ncpama.org/index.htm

For more information, please visit the thread in the North Carolina Forum:

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1261291#post1261291

Wow! thanks for this...I am a CNA who has worked in facilities where they used medication techs instead of nurses. I was approached by management to get my training as a med tech. They said, "it is real easy, just study the book and take the test.'

I REFUSED!

My gosh, I would never feel prepared to give medication to persons with so little training. Correct me if I am wrong, but I wouldn't have knowledge of the many side affect, adverse reactions, drug interactions, signs and symptoms to look for, let alone even have an understanding of why the drug was given and what out come to expect....

I work in home health now, and medication questions come up alot, and my mantra is always: Let's talk to the RN...

I can do calculations: that is not the only issue in administering meds.

I just don't want to dumb down healthcare....

If it were my mom, I would want a licensed person to give her medication.

Sorry for the rant!

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Specializes in Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health.

I would be very concerned if my loved one was admitted to a hospital in NC.

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Wow! thanks for this...I am a CNA who has worked in facilities where they used medication techs instead of nurses. I was approached by management to get my training as a med tech. They said, "it is real easy, just study the book and take the test.'

I REFUSED!

My gosh, I would never feel prepared to give medication to persons with so little training. Correct me if I am wrong, but I wouldn't have knowledge of the many side affect, adverse reactions, drug interactions, signs and symptoms to look for, let alone even have an understanding of why the drug was given and what out come to expect....

I work in home health now, and medication questions come up alot, and my mantra is always: Let's talk to the RN...

I can do calculations: that is not the only issue in administering meds.

I just don't want to dumb down healthcare....

If it were my mom, I would want a licensed person to give her medication.

Sorry for the rant!

Please don't be sorry. You are right!

When i was a certified nursing assistant i refused to give two Tylenol to a patient. The nurse who asked my was wrong. I once refused to irrigate a Foley because i didn't know how.

Now I would not work where an unlicensed person gave medications under my clinical supervision.

You are correct, it is unsafe.

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Please don't be sorry. You are right!

When i was a certified nursing assistant i refused to give two Tylenol to a patient. The nurse who asked my was wrong. I once refused to irrigate a Foley because i didn't know how.

Now I would not work where an unlicensed person gave medications under my clinical supervision.

You are correct, it is unsafe.

i'm licensed and still have to carry my Rx Book with me to make sure i knowwhat to watch for and that it's not contraindicated with other meds i'm giving. No one unlicensed should be giving meds...just because you can read a MAR doesn't make you knowledgeable to administer very potent and dangerous medications. I'm not saying MA's are not smart by no means, before anyone goes there...lol there's just not enough training involved.

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
i'm licensed and still have to carry my Rx Book with me to make sure i knowwhat to watch for and that it's not contraindicated with other meds i'm giving. No one unlicensed should be giving meds...just because you can read a MAR doesn't make you knowledgeable to administer very potent and dangerous medications. I'm not saying MA's are not smart by no means, before anyone goes there...lol there's just not enough training involved.

ITA... and when something terrible happens to a patient as a result of the unlicensed person administering medications (it is not a question of if, but when), it will all fall back on the nurse's license who was "overseeing" the medication aide :o

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I am 150% against UAP of any sort administering medications. For all the reasons discussed her at length before.

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I am 150% against UAP of any sort administering medications. For all the reasons discussed her at length before.

Time for my dumb question of the day.....What is UAP? I'm really not an idiot.. I SWEAR :chuckle I'm just trying to learn all these initials. It's like alphabet soup.. :rotfl:

thanks

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
Time for my dumb question of the day.....What is UAP? I'm really not an idiot.. I SWEAR :chuckle I'm just trying to learn all these initials. It's like alphabet soup.. :rotfl:

thanks

UAP = Unlicensed assistive personnel

Hope this helps :)

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Specializes in Nursing assistant.
UAP = Unlicensed assistive personnel

Hope this helps :)

I thought it was an uninformed aggravating pest :rolleyes:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
I thought it was an uninformed aggravating pest :rolleyes:

:chuckle No, but we all know a few of those.

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