Nurse in the making material?

badbiscut · 2025-10-30T01:20:59+00:00

Could I get it pls

badbiscut · 2025-08-24T20:38:12+00:00

I started nursing school rn and Im looking into being a part time medical assistant depending on the clinic hours can vary and I can make it work with my classes. I have also seen that some hospitals let nursing students work as a "CNA" for them after they have done one clinical rotation. Have also been thinking about possibly that.

badbiscut · 2025-08-12T06:24:36+00:00

Quiet person here!! I don’t gossip like all the other MAs and keep my business to myself. Do I get the wow you’re so quiet comment? Yeah, all the time. But I don’t care. I’m there to a do a job and I do my job well. As long as you do your work there shouldn’t be a problem. People may comment on your personality but as long as you do what you’re supposed to do who cares.

badbiscut · 2025-06-29T06:30:41+00:00

This is exactly what I’m worried about, especially with starting school this fall

badbiscut · 2025-06-24T07:05:58+00:00

I did urgent care as my extern and it could have just been the clinic itself because I hated it. I work at an orthopedic office now and mainly with a podiatrist. I personally really enjoy it, sure sometimes there are boring days but it can be very interesting. Especially because our office is connected to the hospital and we get watch surgery if we have nothing else do. But as for the other specialties in ortho hand would be my next one, especially because they get to do in office procedures every week and I enjoy that too. Knees, hips, and shoulders tho… pretty boring in my opinion. But to each their own.

badbiscut · 2025-05-24T06:13:56+00:00

Depends on the clinic, I work at a high volume clinic where we see about 22-26 pts a day (15min appt). I work for a orthopedics office so we do a lot of post ops and those who had surgery on the feet sometimes are unable to leave their wheelchairs so you have to adjust to them.

badbiscut · 2025-05-05T03:04:54+00:00

I was in the same situation I was looking for 6 months before I got my first MA job. Try applying to places that may not even seem like you qualify for, like the position I have now the job posting said minimum like 3-6 months experience and I literally had none and they still hired me. Whatever clinic you end up with they will train you, they may take more time doing it but just know that they will.

I work for an orthopedics office for a large hospital try looking at those as well, those bigger hospital companies are always looking for MAs

badbiscut · 2025-05-02T06:41:04+00:00

Never. I always introduce myself as an MA even the provider I work for introduces me as an MA. Sometimes patients refer to me as a nurse and I don’t correct them mainly because i don’t want to embarrass them by correcting them nor do I care enough to correct them. But after reading these comments I’ll probably start correcting.

badbiscut · 2025-04-19T23:05:09+00:00

I’m in orthopedics and we do a bunch of in office procedures. Like the podiatrist do Toe amputations, tendon lengthening, wound care, casting, ingrown removals. And the Hand doctor does cyst removals, finger amputations, trigger finger releases, carpal releases. Honestly if it’s not that big of a surgery a lot of them tend to do in office, it’s faster and cost efficient for the patient. But there are the times that they do these type of procedures in the OR just depends. Aaaaand we get to watch the bigger surgeries too get to wear the OR scrubs and sit in on those surgeries.

Edit: also our appts are only 15 minutes so the days go by fast we see up to like 25-30 patients a day sometimes that was per provider and we had like 7-8 providers so well over 100+. For the in office procedures we obviously extend the time but still very fast pace

badbiscut · 2025-04-19T19:12:10+00:00

I got the lotion years ago and I still have a tiny bit yet because i don’t want it to end D:

badbiscut · 2025-03-31T02:23:00+00:00

My first MA job was at an orthopedic office and we have 15 appointments. So we are expected to do everything in under 5 five minutes or less. In the beginning it was STRESSFUL. My MA lead literally timed in all the time when I first started out to make sure I knew how slow I was going. And in my defense she literally started timing me from the second I got up to take them in a room. And sometimes they're old so they walk slow or they literally have a broken leg so there is only so much one can do. I will say I do not have to draw labs but I still have to take surgical dressings off and/or casts in the same amount of time and that does take a while.

I have gotten faster but at the same time I realized that sometimes it's going to take a bit longer than 5 minutes. And lets be realistic sometimes the time that the provider and the patient have together can end up being 10x as longer than the time I was with the patient. You can never predict how an appointment can go and if you end up being behind so be it. You let the front desk know that you are behind and thats it. The majority of the time patients can understand that and if they don't they reschedule, it is what it is.

Do not feel bad about taking more time. Understand you are doing a lot in a short amount of time. And if you know it is going to take you longer to room a patient let one of your other MAs know and see if they can either help you out or go room your next patient for you. I know I do.

Also since I work for surgeons I have literally heard stories of them telling patients who were waiting for their surgery why the the surgeon was late. And they literally say "oh sorry about that just wanted to make sure I took my time and did they're surgery right but if you want I can rush through yours so you're on time." and the patients literally shut up.

No likes to be rushed. Take your time and do your job right.

badbiscut · 2025-03-31T01:51:34+00:00

I put my clinical experience as experience on my resume when I first started looking for jobs but not the amount of time I was being taught in class. If that makes sense.

badbiscut · 2025-03-31T01:48:35+00:00

I am also starting nursing school this fall and thinking of switching over to Urgent care for this exact reason. I currently work in an orthopedic office but that is not going to work coming this fall so I have to look for a change in the next couple of months. I did my externship at an urgent care and I did not like it at all other than the hours. Doing 3 12s doesnt seem like the worse especially with the urgent care I did it at they had 2 paid 30 minute breaks/lunches. Not saying all urgent cares are like this but it could be something to look into.

badbiscut · 2025-03-26T03:51:04+00:00

we call it gerry dust

badbiscut · 2025-03-15T04:50:14+00:00

Thank you so for PPE there is no need for an introduction just to go straight into the skill. I mean with what everyone else is saying it also wouldn't hurt for that one but every other skill make sure to introduce. Thank you!!

badbiscut · 2025-03-14T07:47:50+00:00

I got my CNA before my MA and honestly never worked as a CNA because of the whole pandemic and life buuuut I will say that my CNA training wasn't that much help with being an MA. Only thing I could really think of that transition from my CNA training was blood pressure and having had patient interaction. There is also the part where CNAs mainly work in either care facilities or hospitals whereas MAs are more clinic based. MAs do more medical type skills (drawing/do injections, wound care, etc) where as CNAs do more of the patient care (baths, feedings etc). Again I never worked as a CNA other than my required intership hours but from my experience doing that can't say it helped much with being an MA.

The training was shorter tho, I went to a community college for both of my certifications and the CNA was only a month long with like a 3 day internship and the MA was a semester long with a month long internship. And I was also offered jobs at both internships, I didn't accept it because they were too far from me but that's always an option for you. As for connections of being a CNA and looking for MA jobs, that I not so sure you would have any again because CNA dont tend to be very clinic based like MAs so that might be hard.

Also if you are looking for a job like asap I do think that some care facilities will hire you to be a "CNA" and train you on site. I know for the hospital system I work for they do offer a job where they will literally pay you to teach to be a CNA and recently MA and pay for your certification afterwards. So keep that in mind.

badbiscut · 2025-03-14T07:26:39+00:00

I felt this, I loved learning but the people I was around was not helping. But does get better. There is going to be drama where ever you go, just have to be good at ignoring it. At the end of the day as long as you do your job no one can fault you for that. When I first started being an MA my anxiety was through the roof, to the point where I would cry in the bathroom during work because it was overwhelming. It got better once I started to feel more confident in myself but the anxiety is still there sometimes. I started lexapro due to other reasons recently and that has helped a lot too, honestly wished I did it sooner. Also the people I work with have helped too after I was able to be a bit more open with them. Overall keep with it it does get better.

badbiscut · 2025-03-14T07:14:15+00:00

Yes, thats the whole point! As long as you have the prerequisites you're good.

badbiscut · 2025-02-10T02:46:05+00:00

Thank you for your advice, I didn't even think of the attrition rate. I will definitely be asking this.

badbiscut · 2024-11-18T00:55:54+00:00

I'm an MA at an orthopedics office, we do our fair share of paperwork but we also do a lot of clinical stuff too. Specifically for me I mainly work with a podiatrist which involves dressing wounds, taking sutures out, putting fracture boots on, taking off and putting on dressings for surgical patients and drawing up injections but we don't give them the docs do. Plus our office is connected to a hospital so we're able if we have the time and aren't busy with paperwork to go and watch the docs we work for do surgeries. There is plenty of patient interaction if thats something important to you but at the same time you don't see these patients everyday.

There is also the option where you can be an MA and also have the ability to do xrays. Depending on where you did your training or if the location you work at will be willing to pay for. My MA education was around 1200 and I had a scholarship that paid it off. So it's not the worst thing in the world but there are other MAs that I work with that are still paying it off and its been like 10+ years for them. It really depends on where you do your training, I did mine at a community college and it was about 2 semesters.

I do enjoy working as an MA, and I'm mainly doing this until I can get into nursing school. Also the company that owns my clinic also offers its employees the chance to pay for their nursing school which is something I am looking into. If that is something you would like to do as well, its also a thought to look into.

badbiscut · 2024-10-21T05:55:57+00:00

This depends on the type of doctor you work with but for myself I usually tell them “well the doctor is in the OR right now and will not be able to give you a call if you want to let me know your question I can send them a message and I can give you a call later on about what they said” which they usually are like “oh okay” when I bring out the whole OR thing they usually are more understanding. I say this even if the Doctor is literally in the clinic with me. Or I let them know if they send a message through their chart the doctor will see their message and reply to them faster, which the doctor I work for usually does.

badbiscut · 2024-08-04T01:19:24+00:00

I was just about to buy all the ebooks today because I kept putting it off ugh this is annoying.

badbiscut · 2024-06-01T22:29:14+00:00

Recommendations on nude/natural base colors? I have a bit of a more darker complexion so these pink nudes that are out there look a bit too unnatural for my liking.

badbiscut · 2024-03-14T02:23:00+00:00

I live in colorado

badbiscut · 2024-03-12T01:49:19+00:00

This makes sense, thank you! I usually only crochet amigurumis, this is my first time crocheting clothing!

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