ConfusedAmanda1

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  1. New to ER, coworker makes me feel stupid.

    ConfusedAmanda1 posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I have been a PCT for about 13 years now, since I was 17. I am signing up for fall classes to become a licensed PTA, as most of my experience has been in Physical Therapy hospitals. I do have an...

  2. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I have choked my ass off many times. And I never ever tried to make any nurses feel like I don't think they are important. If you read my very first post, you would see,.that I said how much respect I...

  3. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I do not understand why this is being questioned. I said I am not a nurse. I am not trying to down play the knowledge of a nurse. I am telling you the scope of practice each team mate has in my...

  4. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Like I said one of you give me your email address. I will email you my place of employment and you are more than welcome to call and inquire about an ERPCT Corpsman scope of.practice. Give me your...

  5. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    What is so difficult to understand. I chart chart meds taken, official DX. Meds prescribed,.allergies, symptoms for which they presented to er, dx communicable diseases. Usage of illegal drugs,abuse...

  6. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Nurses informally read them as well. It is not legal or within in their scope of practice to chart on this or offically read them. That is the Drs scope of practice. Not even are the PAs are allowed...

  7. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Are you kidding? LPNS go to school for.6 months here. I never said I can chart an interpretation of an EKG but neither can a nurse. Only a Doctor can do this. I can read an EKG and know if my patient...

  8. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I work in an ER. I went to for almost a year for this as well on the job training.. If you want email me, I will tell you where I work and you may call and

  9. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Also, being there are things my.techs.are unable to do, should I.put off the.work, I am able to do,.just to find a tech and tell them to do it? Because I would never ever do that. If I was busy and it...

  10. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Just to make it clear. I have a new phone and I don't know why it keeps throwing in random

  11. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Yep ALOT of CNAs suck. No argument. Tell me this though, if you are in a facility with medicine aides and wound care nurses. What do you have.to do that couldn't possibly wait for a.few minutes to...

  12. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I work in ED. I triage (ED term for assessing a patient) When labs are brought up , I read what is in range or out of range for each particular patient. I draw labs. I do EKGs, I can read them as...

  13. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I might have a chip on my shoulder. It.is from past experience as a CNA. 75% or nurses in LTC, treat CNAs like garbage, like they are the personal slave to the nurse. Do you know how many.times I had...

  14. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    One last time. The word "delegate" is being misused. To delegate is to allow another person to represent you. You are using it, to describe authority over another person, in a sense of telling them...

  15. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Who will get "their feels hurt"? My title is not CNA, far from it. I do everything an RN does, aside from IV meds. I start IVs and can hang saline, but that is as far as I can go with IVs. Everything...

  16. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Please forgive me,as I am fairly new to this site. I do not know how to quote a comment,to respond to. Anyway, I am still confused. If their job.was to assist you, as a nurse, why weren't they called...

  17. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Some places I've worked have called nurses' aides "personal care technicians". And most of those people weren't even actually certified. So why are you calling them "nurses aides" if that is not their...

  18. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Well I don't know what to tell you about that. I went to school for almost a year for my title. I work in ER and make 18.75 an hour with awesome benefits. I am not a child and I am not subordinate to...

  19. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Techs are not, I repeat, are NOT a nurses assistant. Just saying,incase any power tripping nurse,.feels that

  20. "My Tech" or "My Aide"

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to dreamer30's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm a tech and I actually prefer,that they call me their tech. It's more respect than "the tech" It means they see you as their teammate. I say "my nurse" all the time. Don't be

  21. New to ER, coworker makes me feel stupid.

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to ConfusedAmanda1's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    No, unfortunately, we do not carry phones. Yesterday was my first day back, since that particular event. This girl pretty much ignored me. Yay! I think the threat of going to our boss to ask...

  22. What RN's & CNA's can do in TX

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to sami1978d's topic in General Nursing

    I'm, I don't see how this could be legal. When I first became a PCT, I was also a medication aide. We could pass out narcotic meds, but never wrote a script for anything! Not even RNs can do

  23. HELP!! Finding a job in hospital in Jacksonville, FL

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to nursy1's topic in Florida Nursing

    Emergency department..woo..never done that before I'm

  24. HELP!! Finding a job in hospital in Jacksonville, FL

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to nursy1's topic in Florida Nursing

    I start there on the 16th too! What

  25. HELP!! Finding a job in hospital in Jacksonville, FL

    ConfusedAmanda1 replied to nursy1's topic in Florida Nursing

    Have you found work, in a hospital yet? Brooks is great if you like rehabilitation. Their shift differencial for nurses is 5.00 extra an hour and more when you work weekends, plus you can ladder. I...