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We NEVER use dirty instruments patients. I always inspect them before putting them into the autoclave. The thing is is that the boss's wife is albino, so she has poor vision and I tell her nicely but she gets VERY offended. I'm going to feel really sorry for that office when I leave. My supervisor has been working there as long as I have, so lucky for her I've been able to clean up her mess. She used to be a travel agent now she's the owner of a medical practice and what angers me the most is that she refuses to use HIPAA forms and things like that. She has no clue of what she's doing!!!!!!

I lasted that long to gain experience. My supervisor is totally clueless! She's so dumb that when the W-2 forms arrived, she filed them away. She had no idea what they were!!!

I'm also wondering...are all doctors like my boss? So rude? and always judging patients. I hope not. Because listening to my boss talk about pt. and judge them is really disturbing. I'm the type that just wants to go in and get the job done --not sit there and talk bad about others.

I'm leaving my employer soon because I can't stand being there anymore. My job title is administrative assistant for an OB/GYN. I love my job duties and I love what I do but most of my work load involves correcting EVERY mistake my supervisor makes. My supervisor is the Dr.'s wife and not only is she inexperienced and incomptenent but she also has poor vision. So I have to fix every error she makes. And these errors are not your typical honest mistakes --she makes the DUMBEST mistakes...not once in a while but all the time! She doesn't know how to fill out lab requisition forms, she'll send specimen to the wrong lab, she thinks that HIPAA forms are not necessary to have at our office, and she leaves the speculums with lady partsl discharge and blood on them after she "washed" them -- I could go on and on about everything she does wrong. I've been working there for two years and not once have a said anything untill now. I told her nicely that she had to be careful with this or that and she was VERY offended and denied it and when I showed her proof of her error, she just said "ok, ok" and that was it. I am leaving because I need to have supervisor that knows what they are doing. And what bothers me the most is that my supervisor keeps telling me, "it's really tough out there, there are NO jobs out there and I know you need the money...i know your situation" lol, so yeah she's specualting on my "situation" and trying to manipulate me to stay and she thinks i'm still there because i can't get a job. What she doesn't know is that ive been working there for two yrs to gain experience and that there are a lot of people waiting to hire me right away. Honestly, I have suddenly lost respect for my current employer. I've worked my butt off for two years doing everything and getting really crappy pay. And the doctor is such a A-hole. He's always talking bad about the patients we see and i really hate that about him. I love my patients and i'm compassionate towards them but I really hate that the dr. tell me they are "whores" and that "they shouldn't be opening their legs"...stuff like that really bothers me. I'm really uncompfrtable being there now. Plus, they wont let me take a vacation, not even a 5 day break. Ive been there for 2 yrs and haven't had a break they just like to complain but i'm so ready to leave...they dont appreciate my work AT ALL!:o:o:o

I'm a pre-nursing student, and I work for a gynecologist as a medical receptionist and sometimes I assist the doctor with patients. I'm usually in charge of sterilizing the medical tools. After we're finished with a patient, I immidiately wash/scrub any blood or body fluids off the medical tools and then sterilize them in the autoclave. However, my office manager does something different. She puts all the used speculums in a bucket of hot water and lets it sit for a few hourse, she scrubs them and then place them in the autoclave. Is this safe? She's not a nurse, never attended nursing school,and only handles the accounting and sometimes I don't think she knows what she's doing. There have been times when she "sterilizes" the medical tools, and I've noticed that they have dry blood stuck on them and I struggle to scrub them off (she doesn't wash them well either) I really think she should just stick to the administrative work, and let me handle all that but I'm nervous to tell her. But I wanna know is she really doing the right thing by putting these speculums and other medical tools in a bucket of hot water for hours? Please tell me theres something wrong. Patient safety has always been my priority.

Edited to add: You will probably learn more if you act interested. I am an atypical "receptionist" as I like to help the mri techs out and ask questions and look at the images when I have time. If you just sit at your computer, you may not learn much. The experience is what you make of it. PM me if you have more questions! You know, that's going to be very easy for me. My last job was working at Title and Escrow company and because I'm always eager to learn, I ended up learning alot about real estate. I was always asking questions, and always offered to help other co-workers. All they had to do is train me for 2 min. and I learned quickly and made it part of my duties at work. I was always being nosy and asked them if I could help out. I felt bad seeing everyone stressed out so I offerd to help with their work. So not onlywas I doing my work but other people's work as well, but it didn't bother me at all -as long as I was learning =)

I'm currently a pre-nursing student working on my pre-reqs. I applied for a position as a Medical receptionist at an internist office and I got the job!! I have no experience working as a medical receptionist, and was wondering if this was actually going to help me during nursing school. Like, will I be learning alot of things while working there that could help me out in school? Or will I be just taking calls the whole time? If any one has gone through this, working at a Dr.'s office and doing nursing school...I wanna read your comments. I start next week, really excited but don't know what to expect. Thanks in advance!!!

ooooookay, It's 4am. Maybe you need to go to bed. And don't go to sleep watching t.v.

I'm a pre- nursing student and one of my classmates really scared me yesterday. She told me that when we finish the ADN program, noone would hire us. Is this true??? And someone else tells me it's not true that hospitals love to hire new grads. I don't know who to believe, and i don't want to go through all that hard work if I wont get hired. I already spent almost a year in Medical Assisting school, and never got hired, so i don't want the same thing to happen. And if this is true, why do hospitals "love" to hire new nurses? thanks in advance!

Your writing is terrible! If I were you, I would worry about grammar skills. Or should I say "skillz" No, seriously... you should take CNA classes. Some schools have 6 week programs for about $800. I would suggest checking with your local community college to see what short courses they offer.