JMed18

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1. Unhappy CNA on night shift. Help?

   JMed18 replied to michigan94's topic in CNA/MA

   Absolutely, thank you. That must be the default setting.

2. Alternative ways to get into a provider role?

   JMed18 replied to Lemon Bars's topic in NP Students

   I think that it is terrifying when some people don't know what they don't know. If that's what you think goes through the mind of a PCP, you are dead wrong.

3. Unhappy CNA on night shift. Help?

   JMed18 replied to michigan94's topic in CNA/MA

   I'm pre-nursing? I come onto these forums occasionally just to see how I can better relate to nurses from the medical side and to understand how things I do on the floors may be misinterpreted.

4. Unhappy CNA on night shift. Help?

   JMed18 replied to michigan94's topic in CNA/MA

   Haha what? I worked as a CNA after having a bachelor's in engineering, arguably many-fold more difficult than an RN or BSN. Should I have had the same sense of entitlement? With an MD, should one expect more downtime than an RN? That is absolutely cr...

5. BSN to PA?

   JMed18 replied to allisonkhall's topic in General Nursing

   I know many nurses who went to medical school. There isn't a bias against RNs (with a bachelor's) or BSNs in admissions.

6. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

   JMed18 replied to murseforever's topic in Relations

   I'm sure it's the same reason why some nurses like wearing white coats

7. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

   JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think my hospital's IRB committee would approve of doing "research" (?) on what is essentially an anonymous discussion board with no consenting procedures. I did not come in here looking to offend anyone, and if choice wording led to that I a...

8. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

   JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

   From the medical side (as opposed to the nursing model, I guess) I don't really observe this much any more. A few of my colleagues were discussing whether or not it is appropriate for all members of the team to disclose this type of health informatio...

9. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

   JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

   I can definitely count more than 5 times that I have cleaned up blood from a confused patient when I worked as a PCA.

10. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    Well, look at a majority of the other posts here. The point I am trying to make is that if universal precautions were taken, there is no need to disclose the PHI... Least of all to PCAs/CNAs. There is no way around the bias and it introduces a very r...

11. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    CNAs at your location don't do 1:1 protocol sits with violet/suicidal/confused patients? What about cleaning up blood on the floor from a patient who just yanked their IV out?

12. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    JMed18 replied to JMed18's topic in General Nursing

    You don't think that there is an inherent bias created when disclosing PHI that isn't relevant? Given universal precautions, why should it matter?

13. Ethics: Does knowledge of a patient's blood borne pathogen change your care?

    JMed18 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure we have all had patients with various blood borne pathogens... HIV, AIDS, Hep B, etc. If the patient is under your care for an unrelated issue, do you find that they may generally be treated any differently? Do you aware the CNA/PCA who also...

14. WDYT? Sticking up for myself or...

    JMed18 replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

    What happens if, while shadowing, you get hurt because you are asked to help lift a patient?

15. Can scientific types go into nursing?

    JMed18 replied to Young Tangerine's topic in General Nursing

    I think the only ones who perceive healthcare in that manner are ones who are in no way involved in healthcare. The professions are completely different, and I'm so tired of reading posts by people who try to say "doctors are better than nurses" or "...