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I guess I didn't respond to your final question. I am not going to tell you my name, but if I were in a doctors office or hospital I really don't care if you call me by my first name my last name or if I am called miss or mrs. I am glad you are in...

I am in ambulatory internal medicine - I am not on a floor treating a patient for a 12 hour shift and potentially for several days - If I were then I would want to get more personal. I see 26-30 patients a day. I would rather spend more time asking...

So I am going to be "Frank" for me I am so annoyed with anyone who has a problem with what I call them. If it is part of your name it is your name, I do not know your preference, I do not know your marital status, I do not know if you are a doctor, ...

Hi everyone, I am an ambulatory LPN in a very fast paced Internal Medicine office. We are under our hospital standards. We are up for a mock survey this week for JACHO and are in the window for the real deal. For some reason I feel like our office...

I attended an LPN program at a community college. I have an associates degree in science with a specialization in licensed nursing. The program offered LPN or Advanced LPN (what I did to get associates in science) it required 1 extra semester to t...

This is old but hopefully my response will help future nurses. We have a LONG running LPN in our office 25 years+ in nursing if not more, you would think she would be a great educator or mentor to go to but she is the complete opposite. She calls 9...

That would be lovely. However insurance is the controller of who and where a patient can go. Typically it seems the harder they make it for the patient the more money they get. Sad but true.

I predominantly room patients and perform basic POC testing. I use to huddle with my provider with a printed schedule and write down testing or questions that needed to be addressed but now I know my doctor like the back of my hand so I just huddle ...

I am so thankful to no longer have to do referrals as my current employer has a dedicated person to do this and we also have a concierge service now as well. However I have done my fair share for sure. The biggest problem that I witnessed (and lear...

One of the bigger problems in privately owned practices are just this. The doctors can mold and train anyone to do anything if they are willing to do it. A lot of times the person does not know that they even have a scope of practice or that they m...

Why can't you call the translator and have them listen to the message?

I definitely think it is rather insulting to anyone to tell them to wait outside the lobby. If they are in the hall/elevator etc the people in the lobby will likely travel those same places within 2 hours anyway. Also if they have the rash in awkwa...

Id say NOPE and move on, they are looking for someone to fill a larger position and use them to do an underling position as well then blame you when your main job is not done correctly. RED FLAGS

I would stick it out until after delivery, upon return - do you like this job other than this one person? if so I would take it up with management again and demand something be done to correct the toxic environment.

We don't have any alert system in our office but as a whole we have different teams, I am not sure how each team operates however my team (2 LPN's, and 1 MD) have an established plan if needed. We currently will have one person preferably the MD sta...

We don't have any alert system in our office but as a whole we have different teams, I am not sure how each team operates however my team (2 LPN's, and 1 MD) have an established plan if needed. We currently will have one person preferably the MD sta...

At my office, I work with one provider under a large hospital organization. He and I have a standing order for most general disease processes. For Diabetes we do a1c q3-6 months, micro albumin q1 year unless contraindicated, referrals to ophthalmol...

What EMR do you guys use? He is trying to prevent losing a quality measure which will effect a bonus from the hospital. They keep reports on all of my doctors and the goal is to have something like