Kidaroo102

Kidaroo102 has 15 years experience and specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Med-Surg.

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1. Yes, another "MA calls self nurse" posting..sorry

   Kidaroo102 replied to nurseby07's topic in General Nursing

   I do have some experience on this subject. I was a 91C in the US Army during the 91W Conversion. You start out with "medic" emt training and you can go onto a specialty c, d, e and so on. "C" being...

2. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Well this website was written by a webdesigner and is not accurate for all 50 States. Before reponding, I did check the AK statutes and Administrative Code to verify....Under the direction of a...

3. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Currently Alaska has no laws about "unliscensed" personel administering narcotics. It does how ever have rules about who can deligate the order. A nurse can not deligate this to us, but a physician...

4. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   http://www.aama-ntl.org/resources/library/Role-delineation-2003.pdf This might help it is a study based on nation wide

5. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   There is a common misconception that MA's work under the nurses.....we do not......we work under the practioner....the actions of the CMA are those of the practioner written order so the legality is...

6. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   MA training is not what it used to be. How long did you spend on pharmacology. 10 weeks of 8-5 M-f of dosage calculation, drug composition and chemistry, drug interaction, drug classification. I...

7. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   It is interesting you should say that because if you look at the Dept. of Labor Occupational Statistics the training components are the same. Also HPSO- Health Professionals Service Organization that...

8. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   I am not trying to convince anyone, but MA's are working on the floors in clinical positions, not just tech positions. If you compare an LPN program to an MA program up here there are almost NO...

9. Medical assistants and LPNs

   Kidaroo102 replied to Angela Ma's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   "Actually, no. But I will let the LPNs cover that as they can explain it better than I." Not to be a devil's advocate but in reality MA's can do the same as an LPN and sometimes even more......Medical...