"My Tech" or "My Aide"

ConfusedAmanda1 · Jun 4, 2015

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 name and.I will allow release of my job title.

ConfusedAmanda1 · Jun 4, 2015

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 hospital ( which btw just to brag, we are a level 1 trauma center) Lpns are slowly being phased out. They are turning to techs,with proper education to recieve on the job training to replace LPNs, unfortunately, without a pay raise. I have no urge to argue this and honestly I don't know why I did. Probably because of some of the snide comments.made towards CNAs..This type of medical employment will soon be.behind me. You guys can save.life.and once I am done with school, I will maintain quality of life. Both are very important .

RescueNinjaKy · Jun 4, 2015

I don't know, I've had icu nurse consults and I think they read those ekgs pretty formally.

SubSippi · Jun 4, 2015

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 else is within my scope of practice.

Non-nurses think that being a nurse is all about "doing" all these little tasks, but a chimpanzee could drop an NG or start a foley. Nurses learn how to make clinical judgement calls, it's a whole lot more than spiking a bag of saline.

funtimes · Jun 4, 2015

Non-nurses think that being a nurse is all about "doing" all these little tasks, but a chimpanzee could drop an NG or start a foley. Nurses learn how to make clinical judgement calls, it's a whole lot more than spiking a bag of saline.

I agree with this statement, but I have also seen some RNs(and techs) new to the ER choke badly in a high pressure situation in the resus room attempting some of these monkey skills, or working a code, only to have an experienced tech calmly step in to "assist" them(or pretty much just take over and do the job). I've noticed in situations like this some ER docs don't seem to care who has what on their license or who is gonna have hurt feelings later on, they just want someone who is gonna do the job right now.

Having said that I do think confusedamanda is kind of overstating the role of an ER tech in most settings.

ConfusedAmanda1 · Jun 4, 2015

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 have for nurses. Period. I have never ever said I have the knowledge that nurses are taught in school. ( I won't say that nurses posses, because like all careers, there are dumbasses)

I am defiantly not over stating my role in the ER. Perhaps other hospitals aren't the same. I don't know this is the only hospital, I have worked ER. My passion is PT.

This conversation has gotten way out of control. The original point I was trying to make is. When all medical staff work as a team and one title is not considered the boss of another, and the only boss is the Nurse Manager and each shift a Nurse supervisor(note how I said nurse, not tech, not can) then headbutting is very minimal. CNAs don't feel micromanaged and incompetent. Nurses don't feel pressure to correct someone else's behavior and are less likely to power trip.

That being said. I don't work under the nurses license, I work under my own. Legally I have to take responsibility for my own actions. If they change LTC facilities to this same standarded and the CNA also works under their own license and not the nurses, things would be much smoother.

I have no reason to embelish what I do, that would be stupid. If I wanted to make an empty point I would have gone more along the lines of ; "I am a nurse in the ER and my tech and ERPCT/corpsman are allowed to do this and this blah blah blah" In my hospital there is a difference between the tech and ERPCT roles.

icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

Registered nurses enter the Navy Nurse Corps as commissioned officers. They outrank corpsmen both professionally and in the Navy chain of command.

Lâ™¡vER · Jun 6, 2015

*My techs* know I love them and couldn't do this job without them. I bring them treats, buy them lunch, snacks, monsters lol.....hug and kiss them with sincere thanks for what they do at the end of a rough shift. I really don't think they care what pronouns I'm using to address them because they know they are an essential part of the team.

vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

I'm pretty sure my techs called me, "my nurse". It was a compliment and a term of endearment. We were a team!!!!

Maybe your nurses don't mean the "my" in that sense, though.

icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN · Jun 6, 2015

"Do you know a CNA can purposely set you up,cause you to lose your job and you would be none the wiser." - amandaconfused1

Do know that this threat could end your military career?

There's a problem here, judging from this great example of teamwork from a Navy ER PCT corpsman.

OneDayAtATime93 · Jun 6, 2015

When I was a tech, this happened a lot. I think they mean it in a team sense. I did have one RN introduce me to a patient as "This is my assistant. If you need anything let them know and they'll get it for you". That I had a problem with.

dreamer30 · Jun 7, 2015

When I was a tech, this happened a lot. I think they mean it in a team sense. I did have one RN introduce me to a patient as "This is my assistant. If you need anything let them know and they'll get it for you". That I had a problem with.

I feel like that's what they mean when they say "my tech"...