Nursemccaleb

Thank you! I'm glad some understand where I'm coming from. The whole part about how we know each other makes it seem as If i want to get her in trouble. I don't. I just don't want her calling herself a nurse when she ain't close.

As I was saying before. Initially I wanted to report this but after talking to supervisor and nurse practitioner if they all don't care she calls herself his nurse then I guess I shouldn't either. I just feel I put the time in to become nurse and she didn't so it's wrong to call herself one. Especially with as ignorant as she is. She hurt my step daughter by denying her a visit to the clinic for a minor issue that got really bad.

Thank you and sorry I'm new here. I joined to have a safe place to discuss important topics like this.

I see how it might look like that I messing with her bc I don't like her but the truth is I'm concerned for our patient's safety. She failed to recognize classic symptoms of a uti and identify that she clearly needed antibiotics for this infection of her own child. Why is someone that incompetent pretending to a nurse? And giving out telephone orders on a doctor's behalf? And the doctor is cool with it as is my supervisor. I'm pretty upset about it.

Oh andddd there's a big part of the story I initially left out. The way I know her personally is... she's my husband's ex and my step child's mother. She always wanted to be a nurse but was too stupid. She applied to nursing school 3 times and kept getting rejected so she gave up and has been working at this clinic for a couple years and I guess the dr likes her and gave her a "promotion" to "nurse" my 9 yo step daughter who is skinny as a stick, very athletic, no s/s of puberty was having pain & scant amount of bleeding during urination and she told her it was fine, normal and she had started her period. Poor thing had a uti but she wouldn't take her to get it checked out and it got so bad.

Mississippi. The most backwards place in the US.

This wasn't that big of a deal that I feel I have to report it. It's not like she wanted to start someone with a GI bleed on a high dose of Coumadin with no pt/inr. This was a topical itch cream. I am aware it's illegal but do I want her locked up like a criminal? No. It just rubbed me the wrong way bc I love nursing. I put my heart into it and I feel there's a chain of command between medical professionals. I don't get why she lied either when she knows I know the truth.

I did accepted the order after speaking to my supervisor. Her response was "I didn't know Jamie wasn't his nurse. She gives orders from him all the time." I spoke with our nurse practitioner also and she said it's ok to accept orders from medical assistants and other non licensed clinic workers but it was wrong of her to identify as a nurse.

I did speak to her about it later. I asked why she called herself a nurse and she told me "because I am." And from what I've been told this doctor is ok with the term as he allows her to administer meds and give orders through him regularly since his actual nurse of 20 years just retired. Now that I know this I really do want to report it to the board.

Hey there! I'm a nurse from Mississippi. I recently called a doctors office from the nursing home I work at and asked his receptionist to speak with the nurse to relay a message to the doctor in regards to the patient's care. Instead of letting me speak to the nurse she transferred me to the phlebotomist who answered "this is Doctor Bolder's nurse Jamie. Can I help you? I know her personally and am aware she is not the nurse and requested again to speak to the nurse. She replied "this is the nurse" i just ignored it and said ok well can you let the doctor know about this concern. She called me back a minute later a third time identifying herself as the nurse with a new medication order. She sounded confused as she was giving said order bc she said the medications name and gave no further details. I asked what dose? how often? How long? She sounded as if she was making it up as she went. This whole thing has made me uncomfortable. I was wondering your thoughts on this issue. I find it very disrespectful to claim you are a nurse when you have not underwent the amount of training, passed a licensure exam, and all the many other things it takes to be able to call oneself a nurse.