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Anyone from Arkansas doing distance training with Excelsior College?

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 do...

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 h...

That may be true in some cases. I have an associates degree as a Medical Assistant. Our local college offers it. Its two years long. Our clinic does not hire a medical assistant unless they have gone to school for it. I am sure it varies from sta...

She (the "DON") only has a high school education. They can't keep help. She is so mean to the nurses. Her best friend at the clinic is one of the "Johnny off the street" people who call themselves nurses (the ones that I do have a problem with). Anyw...

Now meaning I have always had a problem with it. My sister works at a clinic as a nurse and guess who the DON is? The office manager! She is not a nurse and has only a high school education. Now that is just wrong! So I see all points. Thanks for you...

It may just be in our state. Our clinic only hires associate degree cma's. Except in the lab they can be a RMA.

:nuke: I have a problem with those people now. If you will reread the posts you will see that. Its wrong for them to call themselves nurses. I don't know of any that do that. But is is also wrong to call themselves an MA if they have no formal e...

Thank you. Well said.

Like I said, a nurse can be just as goofy. These two sound like they are fresh off the street. I think a good CMA could have saved ya.

We all wear name badges with our titles. I bet he is glad you hugged him. I guess Medical Assistants around the globe are supposed to feel gratitude because you approve.

I agree about the fact that she was misleading. I do not think it is professional. But some nurses think they are above everyone. That is sad. They act like it is rocket science to give a shot. That Cma's are stupid. You may not feel that way b...