walla189

wow responses making me feel a wee bit incompent, just ta let ya know my thoughts I have decided to share my very rough draft, (just wrote between post) of my essay, tell me what ya think, The decision to delegate the task of passing meds to any unlicensed personal is in most cases an irresponsible action. The first and foremost problem is the liability issues of the patients' meds, as a nurse we are held accountable for any negative events from that medication regardless of our involvement. Examples of this are the obvious risk of theft whether it be the CTA directly or someone else that may have taken the meds off the patients table. Obvious harm could come to the person taking this medication whether it be a allergic reaction, complication due to health condition, or interaction with other drugs the individual may have also taken. There is also the patient to be considered, the meds taken by another may have been vital to the patients treatment causing severe repressions. The training a CTA receives is not at the level to make decisions to keep the medications safe. And as professionals we are given the responsibility to protect the patent and safeguard others from controlled substance, it is in fact our complete fault if another does harm with these substances. The patient may be curious about the side effects or maybe even the reason they are taking their prescribed drugs, the CTA's level of knowledge and experience with patients would not be able to at the very least answer these questions. Even more so the patient to health provider trust would be greatly dimished, patients correctly expect professional staff in professional situations, any less is..../

Wow great response, to save some face, I'm a student doing this for a essay so don't string me up just yet...

I fill the cups and check for all interactions and whatnot, but anyone have any negative experiences or can think of any possible neg exp with this? Thanks

There are 42 students? I was under the understanding that the class was 24. two unders in one sentence , i'm so crazy :trout:

Hey info on the program would be great, specially since they stopped returning my calls... Wonder if they care if we goto the orientation, cause I'm gunna be 300 miles away at a summer camp wooh!! P.S What the heck is this icon suppost to be? :trout: you got fished?

The whole MUO/Toledo thing has me worried, while UT is a good school it doesn't hold up to MUO's reputation. The word is that MUO degrees will say "University of Toledo". Now I'm shallow enough for that to be a small factor for me in deciding if I will or will not attend.