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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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 ...
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...
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%?
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
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.
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 ...
Wawaloam replied to gertiemae91's topic in Disabilities
I believe that your scope of practice in any given state depends on the scope of practice outlined in your nurse practice act/nursing regulations specific to your state. A speciality field cannot override your licensure. Certification is completley ...
Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities
OK--so get this! For several years we fought to get our Nurse Practice Act ammended to allow delegation to Direct Support Professional for medication admnistration etc. in group homes for the deelopmentaly disabled. Effective, 1/1/2007 we are suppo...
Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities
Hi Charlie, I have the training material that RI uses and what we are supposed to start using in January as well. It owuld be advisable to actually look at the ammendment that was passed to see if it specifically states what training material should...
Wawaloam replied to CharlieTN's topic in Disabilities
Charlie, I can't imagine that the state would have passed this without actually having guidelines for what kind of training needed to be provided. Most states that have passed waivers to their Nurse Practice Acts have had to submit how they will tra...