2007-02-04 10:44:07 · 18 answers · asked by laura n 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I think so because its a misrepresentation. It makes people put more trust in them than they should.
2007-02-04 10:46:57 · answer #1 · answered by G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It seems kind of harsh to take away someone's livelihood for that. Depends on the circumstances. Does this person have business cards identifying himself as a nurse? Or did he just happen to tell a foreign patient that he was a nurse because he didn't want the patient to think he was a doctor and the patient didn't understand the term "medical assistant"? Was the person trying to impress someone to get a date?
The supervisor should just explain to this person why identifying himself as a nurse is inappropriate and give him a warning. It's just not in the same category as, say, a nurse calling himself a doctor and performing open heart surgery on someone. Taking away the medical assistant's license would mean the person would not get a second chance. Unless the medical assistant was actually performing nursing duties and harming people, taking his license away is too harsh.
2007-02-04 10:58:56 · answer #2 · answered by ginger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the MAs I work with call themselves nurses on purpose. Patients really have only 2 titles they use: nurse and doctor (although that is changing!!). In the "olden days" "nurse" meant to many a caregiver (as in "I need some nursing") and did not specifically refer to a RN. As a physician assistant, I had to constantly correct on the doctor (and sometimes you give up); so I imagine its the same for the MA. I even admit, I may at times tell the patient their nurse will be in (when its a MA--so I plead guilty! Sometimes its just easier, but no disrespect to the LVNs & RNs out there). I try & say the MA or my assistant; but patients get confused. And many of the MAs are not wannabe nurses--they are great MAs and that's where they want to be.
2016-03-29 05:03:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats a medical assistant?
2007-02-04 10:47:46 · answer #4 · answered by Michael S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you a title nut? Assistants do a lot of your dirty work remember. And you want them to loose their license over a simple word? Shame on you! How would you like to loose your liscense if someone refered to you as a doctor? Someone else might think you led them to believe you were one.
2007-02-04 10:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by HeatherS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Nurse" is a broad spectrum word. It just means, one that is hired to care for sick people. I think that you are putting too much thought into the meaning. No they should not have their license taken away.
2007-02-04 10:51:38 · answer #6 · answered by chugyn 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No way. "Nurse" is a pretty general term. If they referred to themselves as an LPN or RN, specifically, then they should be reminded that that's a misrepresentation of themselves and their scope of practice.
2007-02-04 10:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by tms 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, should be the same as architects. Unlicensed architects in CA can get a fine and/or get in jail for calling themselves architects--- other fields should get the same treatments
2007-02-04 10:49:54 · answer #8 · answered by Ting Err 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmm
i dont think they should lose their liscense but they should be punished
thatd be like a nurse saying shes a doctor
2007-02-04 10:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by ChicaInquisitiva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take away a liscence for wishful thinking? That's just ridiculous. In answer to your question, No.
2007-02-04 10:47:05 · answer #10 · answered by littlemissy 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋