I am in no way bashing MA's-I worked with several, but I have to just share some things with two of the ones I worked with. Our doctor had given a woman a pelvic/Pap exam. She had some bleeding-due...
In response to lpn2005-are you saying that the nurses are sitting at the desk doing nothing? I know that I have had aides get angry because I cannot help them sometimes, because I am sitting AT the...
robynrn2b replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency
I agree with the post about Medicaid patients but I also feel that others who abuse their insurance by going to the E.R. because it is "convenient" for them should also be made to pay a larger copay....
Weekends used to bother me--but I got used to them while in school, it was one of the only times I had to pick up hours. Its less busy then also--usually! Plus a little bit of a differential. Every...
robynrn2b replied to ManyQuestions's topic in General Nursing
I don't think the NICU would be a good place for manyquestions either. Many patients in there cannot open their mouths either, or talk to you. They certainly cant, "wipe their own butts." I am a...
I too had that question. I was informed by my board of nursing that basically the DON-RN is "covering" for you. We have a MDS and Medicare coordinator that sign off on assessments and that is...
Maybe you live in a fantasy nursing world--I personally don't. We have the "weekend call in procedure." We have to make it up. If we didn't, we would have piles of call-ins!--sad? YES. Fair? NO....