dbowens02

Is the nurse with the overtime, friends with the owner or something? Sounds kinda funny to me. That is not fair. I am sorry that happened to you. I will say a prayer that something even better will come along. Good nurses deserve better then that. Good luck.

So true. You hit the nail on the head.

In Arkansas you can not sit in on the CMA exam, but you can sit for the RMA with is not the same thing. Rma is under the med tech board and CMA is AAMA. If you attend an RMA program it is more geared toward lab. Thus the reason it is under the med tech board. Our clinic does not hire RMA's.

Saying you are a MA does not make it so. They are not reconized in our state unless they have gone to school. I am done with this post. Off to better things. Have a good night.

You said people go around claiming to be a nurse when they are not. Is this not what this board is all about? Again, they can call themselves a medical asst. all they want to but that does not make them one if they did not go to school for it. If someone did not go to school to be a nurse, then they can call themselves one all they want to but that does not make them one. I will be a BSN in less then a year. Then I plan on becoming an APN. So I see both sides. CMA's do not like for someone, with no education, to call themselves an MA, no more then a nurse likes for them (MA's)to call themselves a nurse. Our clinic will not hire someone unless they have gone to school. We never have any conflicts at our clinic with our nurses or CMA's. We do what we were hired to do and get the job done. I have never heard of this bickering about titles until I got on these boards. Each job is important. From the Docs to the cleaning crew. We need everyone one of these people to be successful. Those that claim to be something that thay are not will be caught up with some day. I am so thankful for my co-workers, they are a great and professional group of men and women.

If they did not go to school to be a medical asst., then they are not a medical asst. Same, if they did not go to school to be a nurse, they are not a nurse.

There is a big difference between a CNA and a CMA.

Well said. We do have to go to school. So it is not fair for people who have not gone to school to call themselves MA's.

Quote: It's a shame the office wants to cuts costs at the expense of a patient's health because they are worried about the bottom line. I'd leave if I didn't like my pediatrician so much. Unfortunately I think this practice is becoming more and more common. The CMA's and LPN's are on the same pay scale in our clinic.

It does not take a rocket scientitist to do a strep test. In most cases they do the swab in the lab. Nurse do not work in the lab now do they? Sometimes the tests do come back neg. and can be positive a week later. It is the test not the person doing it. It can come back neg if the patient had something to drink before the test. It can come back neg if they have been sucking on candy or cough drops, etc. Did not matter who did it the first time. It can also came back neg if it is a certian kind of strep and will only show up on a culture. But what do I know I'm only a CMA.

Now you know how if feels to be a CMA who went to school two years and to see all those that did not go to school calling themselves MA's.

Amen. I am a student also. There is alot of nurse snobbery out there. But there are some great ones too.

There are so many other things in life to worry about then this. I wish that was all I had to worry about.

True, you should not claim to be something you are not. Acccording to the BON in our state, it is not fraudulent to call yourself a nurse as long as you don't say LPN or RN. That is fradulent. I don't like people calling themselves CMa's if they have not gone to school either.