WannabeFlight

WannabeFlight has 4 years experience and specializes in Family Practice.

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1. MA's being used as "nurses"

   WannabeFlight replied to Jeanbean's topic in Ambulatory

   NOPE!!! When I have corrected them, of course, I am completely nice about it and explain it well enough where the next time they address us to a patient, they have caught themselves and stated Assistant instead of Nurse. They do try...of course might...

2. MA's being used as "nurses"

   WannabeFlight replied to Jeanbean's topic in Ambulatory

   Oh and under NO circumstances are we allowed to do Phone Triage because we have not been properly trained to do so. I honestly believe alot of these issues extend from personally bad run in's with medical facilities that dont really understand that ...

3. MA's being used as "nurses"

   WannabeFlight replied to Jeanbean's topic in Ambulatory

   I am an MA in a family practice setting. My license is as s CNA, but I operate under my Nurse manager and Medical Director. I do wound care, office procedures, sterile set up, stitch/staple removal, phlebotomy, injections, immunizations, EKG's, IV's ...

4. Meth users and abusers

   WannabeFlight replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   When I walk into patient rooms in the FP, you can instantly distinguish smells of alcohol, marijuana, meth and etc... Kinda lets me know what I may be dealing with. But I agree, its rapidly taking over and its VERY scary!

5. First Contaminated Needlestick

   WannabeFlight replied to Nurs0706's topic in General Nursing

   I was trained to never recap a needle by hand, you scoop the cap with the needle off of a surface to get cap back on, completely covering the needle. Then discarding the needle and syringe. Learned that after compliance training when a co-worker was ...

6. Please dont hate me for saying this...

   WannabeFlight replied to RN2BENAUSTIN's topic in General Nursing

   I have been a Medical Assistant in a Hosiptal Out-Patient Facility for several years while awaiting entrance to Nursing School. But I can sympathize with what you are feeling. I work among staff of CNA's, RMA's, LPN's and RN's. And those behaviors ar...