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1. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   Hi Pam, MAP ceritification won't allow you to work in RI. I am a MAP instructor through the American Red Cross. It's a nice entry level step for direct support professionals but does "go against" a RI CNA license, as the CNA license states that yo...

2. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   Hi Pam, Yes, you do have to be a CNA first. My niece did it wile she was waiting to get into CCRI's nursing program. Sandy

3. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   Hi Pam, My niece went through the Med Tech course at CCRI in Warwick. Its possible that registration is through the Dept of Health but the classes are held somewhere else. My understanding is that, as a Med Tech, you still need to be supervised by ...

4. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   Actually Pam, you can go right through CCRI for the Med Tech training. You have to be a CNA first. I don't believe though, that Med Techs are used in home care. Do you plan to do per diem's at a long term care facility. That is where most Med Tec...

5. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   Thanksfr the info. We've closed all of our insititional type facilities and most of the MR/DD population live in the community in small group homes and their own aprtments and condos. A few are in regular nursing homes but there's a state move to g...

6. Medication Tech Training

   Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

   You are absolutely correct---assessment cannot be delegated. In states that don't have nurses overseeing the medication admiistration process that creates a real problem. In my state I am responsibe for training and ensuring that staff are competen...

7. Umass Amherst Nursing program

   Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts

   I'm sorry to offend you---you're right, it is pretty creepy but she disappeared from Amherst. I'm just trying to locate someone who may have known where her clinicals were pr why she would have been travelling to Norwood (over 2 hours away) for clin...

8. Umass Amherst Nursing program

   Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts

   Is it possible that she was doing clinicals in Norwood, MA? Would she really be sent over two hours away from campus for a day of clinicals? I think she would've been a sophomore also with you. Do you know anyone who may have known Maura?

9. Anybody applying to UMASS Amherst and getting their BSN

   Wawaloam replied to Kristina7101989's topic in Massachusetts

   Of those of you who go to or went to UMass, do you remember a young lady by the name of Maura Murray? She disappeard Feb 9, 2004 and I'm trying to figure out where she was doing clinicals. Is it possible that she would have been sent to Norwood MA ...

10. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

    we do g tubes, jtubes, etc., and as of march of this year, can delegate insulin injections if they are predosed. In Mass, only nurses can do insulin.

11. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

    Interesting....In Mass, the MAP trained staff are certified on their own and there's no delegation by the RN. In RI, where I work primarily, it's ALL delegation with no standardized training in the DD field. There are med techs in other areas, but...

12. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

    do the nurses in your state delegate to the staff or are the staff licensed/certified on their own after taking the 30 hour class and passing the test with 100%?

13. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts

    Do you keep in touch with anyone else that may have known her? Her disappearance is still unsolved and many people are actively looking for information/answers/anything

14. Umass Amherst Nursing program

    Wawaloam replied to HieuNgu1155's topic in Massachusetts

    Did any of you that went to UMass Amherst ever meet Maura Murray while you were there? She was a nursing student at UMass Amherst at the time she disappeared.

15. Medication Tech Training

    Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities

    I work in both RI and Mass---two very different systems. In RI, the providers fought a longer standardized training and we are left with nothing formal--yet our Nurse Practice Act directly reflects the use of the program that was "rescinded" (which ...