am27

am27

Member
  • Content

    66
  • Visitors

    1,329
  • Followers

    0
  • Likes

    0

About am27

Latest Activity

  1. When confidentiality isn't quite the same

    I acknowledged that. Just because there wasn't a law, doesn't mean the concept and implication of patient confidentiality didn't
  2. When confidentiality isn't quite the same

    So prior to HIPAA, there was no such thing as the concept of patient confidentiality? K. Pretty sure HIPAA is not HIPAA worldwide,
  3. I am a nurse, thank
  4. Just as other professions outside of nurses save lives. I never even implied that saving lives only happens in acute care hospitals. OrganizedChaos first said that medical assistants only work in...
  5. Question for medical assistants

    OP, I was a medical assistant for about ten years before I graduated nursing school and got my first RN job 😊 as an MA, I worked in primary care clinics and it was this experience that lit a...
  6. Why do you feel the need to put down other professions? I worked in a clinic that did not employ nurses on site so yeah, I was the one administering first aid. without another clinic at the very least...
  7. side rail use in private duty homecare

    You quoted me and asked when in nursing school it was taught that all siderails up is considered a restraint so I answered you. To be more specific, it was included in basic skills learned in the...
  8. side rail use in private duty homecare

    Maybe school for RN and LVN are different. Otherwise, I can't explain why you didn't learn this the first week of class like my fellow nurses and
  9. side rail use in private duty homecare

    Nursing School
  10. Interview for Transitional ICU Position

    ...No.
  11. I took that from my contract, so no I don't have a link. If it's not easily available to outsiders, I don't feel comfortable sharing more than I already have. Perhaps you can contact MNA
  12. 33.45 hourly for BSN with 1 yr experience for inpatient, 28.77 for ambulatory is what I came up
  13. Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    I did think that was a little odd too; my instructors were also the ones with access to the Pyxis and
  14. Why are the floor nurses so unwilling to teach?

    I apologize, we all know that it's hard to decipher tone over written word. I completely agree with everything in your post and this is how all of my clinicals went, in various hospitals even....
  15. OP, I actually have an answer for you. If it looks like a cheap, trashy, bleach blonde job (I'm picturing Christina Aguilera's hair 10 years ago that coordinated so well with her sketchy spandex...