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  1. "I'm an uncertified medical assistant"

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Freedom42's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    "MA" is a catchall term for physician office staff trained in routine tasks from paperwork to phlebotomy, probably for much cheaper than an actual nurse would work for. As long as the physician is...

  2. "Ask me if my hands are clean"

    Xbox Live Addict replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    Ahhh, the plot thickens. Get the patients all riled up about how clean their nurses' hands are and maybe they won't notice all the other crap that's going wrong in their

  3. "Ask me if my hands are clean"

    Xbox Live Addict replied to bethin's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder what prompted this kind of "customer service" BS? That is bloody juvenile. Another product of the "customer service hotel" orientation of today's hospitals, all this does is give irate...

  4. Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Hehehe... I will grant you that being dogged down constantly in the way that you just described can kill your morale. On the other hand, over the years I grew weary of unkept promises made by...

  5. Quitting...are they all the same??

    Xbox Live Addict replied to nhelkhound's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Sadly, this is the nature of the beast with regards to LTC. Today's LTC patients generally require as much care as yesterday's acute-care patients, especially when you work at a Medicare facility, yet...

  6. IV pain meds in LTC

    Xbox Live Addict replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have never seen IV pain medications in LTC. The only things I've seen given IV in LTC were antibiotics and IV fluid replacements (NS, D5W, K+, etc). Certainly I've never seen anything given IV push,...

  7. Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    There is nothing wrong with wanting money, as long as it is honestly earned. Money is the share of our world's limited resources to which you are entitled - the necessities of life as well as the...

  8. Changing a patient's diaper while they are standing ?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to EmBeMap's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    If they are able to, stand them up, much easier. However, that should be done in the bathroom, with grab rails and the toilet to sit them on, not in the resident's room. ("Briefs" is the legally...

  9. NA's not professionals

    Xbox Live Addict replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    "Professional" has been so overused now that it is now a meaningless term. The workers at a local ice-cream/fast food restaurant are called "Hospitality Professionals." At the same time, I've seen...

  10. Why are nurses so angry?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to cmo421's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Being a helping profession does not preclude personal needs, including money. The way I see it, the rate at which you are paid gives you a good idea of how highly the organization for which you work...

  11. Doctor who?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to wooden nickel's topic in Men in Nursing

    Good for you. Lying to a patient like that is not only unhelpful, but it is unethical as well. Most patients, even in deep confusion, can see through a lie like that in any

  12. How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Zero. I'd invest some of that money in Nintendo - their Tokyo stock prices have soared over the past year - and I'd just travel the world and relax for the rest of my life. Maybe I'd adopt a kid. One...

  13. Office Nursing

    Xbox Live Addict replied to DreamyEyes's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I work in a plasma center, which is not exactly working in a clinic, but I do mostly work out of an office, and there are some similarities in work flow. I do physicals to assess donors for...

  14. Handling Physicians. Any suggestion?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to AlmostThere:)'s topic in General Nursing

    I've known a few temperamental doctors. I don't take crap from them, and one time I spent 25 minutes on the phone chewing one's orifice about pain medications for a patient - the doctor said this 80+...

  15. Help

    Xbox Live Addict replied to keaton90's topic in General Nursing

    I think that the certification one would get from this program would allow them to perform as nursing assistants in a Medicaid-certified long-term care facility, under the supervision of a licensed...

  16. How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    $100,000 would pay for me to finish law school. Until I got my present job, however, I was seriously thinking of walking out of nursing for good, for zilch. As it is, there isn't any amount of money...

  17. Help: hospital wants to run a Credit Check

    Xbox Live Addict replied to kendel's topic in General Nursing

    My current job did not do a credit check on me. I work in a plasma center, which is part of the pharmaceutical industry, and is not a health care facility. They went entirely off of my work history....

  18. Help: hospital wants to run a Credit Check

    Xbox Live Addict replied to kendel's topic in General Nursing

    This kind of behavior on the part of employers is sickening, and the increasing death of privacy is frightening. It used to be that this kind of thing was commonly only seen in authoritarian societies...

  19. Doctor who?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to wooden nickel's topic in Men in Nursing

    In LTC, the residents knew I was a nurse, and as far as "why don't you become a doctor," I only had one little old lady who always said about me, "Now there's a good doctor!" Now that I work in the...

  20. Showing up to work SICK

    Xbox Live Addict replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    For an industry that is supposedly devoted to the treatment and prevention of illness, health care has no mercy when one of its own gets sick - or in how that might impact the patients. Over the...

  21. Where do the Happy Nurses Work?

    Xbox Live Addict replied to RNBeachGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I work at ZLB Plasma. I assess donor suitability and work with donors who are having adverse reactions. It is the best nursing job I have ever had, and pays well. I don't want to work in an in-patient...

  22. If your job went from 8 hour to 12 hour shifts...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to TooterIA's topic in General Nursing

    Heh... I take it that you laugh because you got screwed over like this too. Yeah, it's funny now. It sure sucked at the time

  23. If your job went from 8 hour to 12 hour shifts...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to TooterIA's topic in General Nursing

    I hate 12's. They are too bloody long. When your day is going badly, there seems to be no end to the misery. Plus, when a facility I was working at went from 8's to 12's, I was a 3-11 nurse and you...

  24. The worst or strangest orders you have seen...

    Xbox Live Addict replied to MadisonsMomRN's topic in General Nursing

    The "this side toward enemy" I can understand. It's the disclaimer of "not a food product" on a LAND MINE that is rather

  25. please help! :)

    Xbox Live Addict replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I'm all for saline locks myself. NS is, after all, the safest substance to tissues and I imagine there's quite a few people out there who are allergic to heparin or have other issues causing...