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the physician I work for is considering hiring an MA What is the pay rate for Medical assistants? What do you like about working in an office as a medical assistant? Joy and Smiles * Darla

I have a couple of patients with diabetes who are indigent. I am able to get free glucometers but unable to find anyone willing to provide test strips. We are trying to gain tight control and without the BS readings it is very difficult. Does anyone ...

I am an office nurse and these are "daily doses of a patients reality"!!! A familiar scene in the office!! A new patient arrives and the "Med List" needs to be created. One day I asked a new patient about her medications. The patient listed Accupril...

I could use some help!! what programs does your office most frequently refer patients to for medication assistance? I live in TN and we are in a medication and medical care crunch with the demise of some portions of TN care .( it is kind of like m...

Two cute jokes I read at an online joke site. They made me smile!!! An elderly gentleman went to the local drug store and asked the pharmacist for Viagra. The pharmacist said "That's no problem. How many do you want?" The man replied, "Just a few, ma...

What is your experience with these meds? The doc I work for said the side effect profile for most of our patient population is not worth the risk of the med ( we have alot of pts with heart disease, COPD and Diabetes) what has been your experience? ...

You are not alone I am the only nurse in a BUSY Internal medicine practice fortunately I am very healthy and in the last six years have taken my vacation and only two sick days But I admit to some frustration that there is no back up My doc takes o...

Do you send sympathy cards to family members of patients who die? I work Internal medicine and this question has come up more than once in the last few months If both the person who passes away and the family member are patients of the practice I thi...

There is a web site called Needymeds.com that has a variety of PAP ( patient assistance programs) The other difficulty I am having is helping the patients understand the myriad of forms and finding the time to explain it all to them. With the current...

My sister teaches refresher course for RNs Depending on the hospital you choose to work for you may be pleasantly surprised at the courses available to you. IN the meantime .. think of all the skills you are gaining at the clinc ..you are learning ...

nanaRN I am sorry you are having such a difficult experience.. I felt sad for you as I finished reading your post .. advice to the nursing student I agree with all the others .. One to three years in the hospital setting is what solidifies many if ...

There are several determinig factors in choosing a clinic job and the skills you will need the size of the practice, the specialty, the availabilty of computers Electonic medical record etc Working in a specialist office Ie: neuro, endo, ENT...

Subcu injections I work in an Internal med practice and often give injections subcu IM etc However, we have Rheum pt ( rheumatologist is one hour drive for her ) and she is going to start Humira She broke her arm and wants to know if I will teach ...

First of all I am a proponent of Hospice and a firm believer in all that you do I believe you are all angels I am a nurse in an Internal medcine office and we often refer to hospice for palliative end of life care My current dilemna.. we have a...

I am in TN We are starting to see several cases of the flu in our offfice it is mostly people in thier 40-60 age range What about in your office? ' Darla

How do you handle samples? Does the pt have to sign when picking up samples? Do you print out written instructions to give th pts with thier samples? Do you log out and chart samples in pt record? Thanks for you input Darla :)

what type opf practice is it? Have you wroked in an office previously? Do you like it? I helped my doc start his practice six years ago ,.. we have really grown and I usually Love it.. however I am still the only nurse and we need more help But th...

Interesting when I worked in the hospital nurses could get written up for med errors ..the pts go home and polypharmacy becomes russian roulette ************************* My office is on a campaign to prevent medication errors Patients are told to ...

we have two problems you just identified many of our patients have two or more pharmacies.. do your pts do that? they have their "mail in pharmacy" their local pharmacy, things they send ot the Canadian pharmacy and then we have some that use the V...

sounds like it was difficult but good for you hanging in and holding on to principles .... we have to look out for our patients and ourselves Carry on the flame and light the way!! Darla

Thank you, I started the process yesterday and hospice is going to evaluate her today. We had a pt once who rallied and was discharged from hospice and lived another year. People are absolutley amazing.. the nurses and the ones we take care of H...

Thank you, I started the process yesterday and hospice is going to evaluate her today. We had a pt once who rallied and was discharged from hospice and lived another year. People are absolutley amazing.. the nurses and the ones we take care of H...

how did it go laura?? hold fast to your strengths ... Docs like this can be so glib ..they sometimes fluster us out of our issues.. Darla

Ahhh how about that weekend.. they certainly make me feel better Has a little distance from Friday helped you to clarify what you want to say? of course it needs said and I wish you the best Does he have a habitual anger problem? Sounds like some ...

Lori we have also seen two cases of fllu in two people who had the flu shot.. on the optimistic side .it is the younger basically healthy ones coming down with flu at least they are less likely to die from influenza although they may at times fee...