JeanthePHN

I work with a nurse who is mentally slow because of some phychiatric illness she has or because of menopause or something. I only work in a clinic so no one is dying here.I know that Managment is protecting her. She is getting worse and as the years ...

Thank you for the reply about the AAMA organization. That is a helpful reply. I was so upset about this I went to the local hospital and applied for a job so I could work with real nurses and real LPN and CMA. I was totally shocked when the nurse rec...

I know the ANA isnt involved with laws but I have contacted the Mass BORN and it is allowed in Mass to have unlicensed and untrained people as medical assistants. On the job training under the physician is allthat is required. I still can not believe...

I sat here reading these posts from the beginning (2001 or so) I am an ofice nurse, an RN, and have had this med. assistant versus nurse problem for several years now. I have been in a private, two doctor office for three years now. He just hired a ...

I moved to cape cod two years ago to work for the Phone company. I left my job within one year. It was a sales job. For a year and a half now I have been trying to get a job here and cannot get one. I am ignored by the hospital because of my 9 years ...

well I dont agree. I am 40 and had 2nd generation immigrant parents who never graduated from high school and worked menial jobs all their lives and told me to "be a nurse cause nurses always have work" I was so shy and naive and ignorant when I was ...

Try the web site for Northeastern University in Boston. Also, when I went there they did not have any co-ops (internships) 70 miles away and I made my own with my local hospital. why cant you do that?

Now these posts are old but here is my 2 cents....I foolishly went in nursing in 1980 because, at 20 years old, I did not have much career choices. Girls who grew up in the 60's and 70's did not become rocket scientists. The hospital school of nursin...

Well, I cant believe some of those good salaries! As a PHN, in 2000, I made 16 hr after 8 years. I worked at Pediatric Associates in 1994 and started at 14hr. I am going for office jobs now and the pay is 13, 14, 15 an hr. I recently was turned down ...

No one responded to my last post on PHNursing. How are other schools dealing with foreign shot records? What resources are you using? ------------------

goodness some pedi nurse actually here!!! I give shots to a lot of kids and adults and I use the""" blow the pain away""'techinque and all the other nurses think I am nuts. But the patients love it, so i keep doing it. I dont use aroma therapy in ash...

Well, money is not involved. The Health dept does not get money, bill insurances,or anything like that. We have a tax supported budget and all of our services are totally free. And once a person is politically in a city job there is not much that can...

Thank you all for replying..but documenting wont help here. I work for the Health Dept and all we do is give immunizations once week and give people health information on dieseases. Documenting the fact that this nurse gives children the wrong vacci...

Well, Sophi, I work for the Department of Health!!Now what do I do?

If you can get one of these sought after jobs in ambulatory care as a new grad I would be very surprised. Dont count on it. Those jobs go to the politically connected wives, sisters, girlfriends who dont HAVE to work. ------------------

Older nurses go into school nursing and public health nursing. Two reasons...they have a power base that gets them in politically, they have a husband who gets them in to these types of jobs, and because these jobs are easier, these nurses stay and t...

Funny but it seems that the people who like nursing are the ones who already have made their money!!! I went into nursing as a kid and hate it and would love to get out of it and go into computers. Any young person is nuts to go into medicine or nur...

I did. It depends where you live. Limiting my skills has led to very few job openings now but then again, we are all just ""packages of skills"' aren't we? There are not anyjobs for RN's in doctors offices or clinics anymore anyways. They hire medica...

Maybe you believe washing your hands is a good idea but BASED ON RESEARCH most people don't. I had a very clean cook contract hep a and if he was wearing gloves I probalbly could have stopped the public health panic attack people had.

Don't forget you will have to become an expert at immunizations!!and pre and post exposure prophylaxis. I wish I had your job. Got any openings for a RN? EMAIL ME ANYTIME WITH QUESTIONS ON VACCINES. JEAN THE NURSE AT [email protected] pu...

WOW some smart nurses out there finally. But come to Massachusetts and you will find there is no such thing as an office RN--except maybe for a large HMO. The last HMO I applied to said they had not hired a nurse in almost three years!! I am so glad...

YES, OLIVE OIL.CALL THE NPA.

Can you help me with my translation project? All I need is the nine vaccinations translated into your countries language. I need the words for mealses, mumps, rubella, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, hepatitis b, and menigitis.We get a lot of...

Can you help me with my translation project? All I need is the nine vaccinations translated into your countries language. I need the words for mealses, mumps, rubella, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, hepatitis b, and menigitis.We get a lot of...