I cannot find anything anywhere. I am talking about people who are treated like nurses by their bosses/owners, but have no medical education or training outside of what they have learned on the job.
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In a private physician's office, it is legal. This person is practicing under the physician's license. In a nuring home or hospital setting, it's not legal. Not that the person has to have a license to do these things, but they need special certification. In some facilities nursing assistants are allowed to draw blood, etc provided they have special certification on top of their aide certification. IN other facilities it's not legal. It depends from institution to institution what people are allowed to do. You should either check with IL Nurse Practice act or call the state dept of nursing to ask these specific questions about your state.
I dont know if its illegal, but someone will be responsible for malpractice. Hope this company has good malpractice insurance.
yes,,,,, anyone using anything that comes in contact with blood/spore/pathogens. bio-hazard material.will need a license.contact il. health department for statutes
Probably. It doesn't surprise me that is happening. Facilities are hiring less qualified staff to do things like that in certain places because it costs them less money. I have heard worse than that were I live at in CA. I myself when I only had a CNA (nurse assistant) license was doing acts like passing meds and dressings in a nursing home like facility. These places get certain qualifications from the state and so are able to get away with it. The scary part is not only are they less qualified but many are also resorting to hiring illegals doing nursing tasks! I am serious, I've seen it. LVN and LPN licensing are becoming sort of extinct in an effort for these greedy facilities to pay staff less. It's a scary thing for all of us. It's illegal in many instances no doubt but they find a way to get around it.To elaborate a little more on the subject (since it is my field of work), on how many of these places of employment get away with it is by how they classify their business. Say for instance I am a millionaire and decide to open a mansion and have it set up as a nursing home for the elderly. I may be running the operation as a nursing facility but technically it is my business therefore I can get away with more stuff. I can hire illegals and untrained proffessionals for about 8/hour and charge your grandma about 3,000 a month to live there. I see this all the time out here and when I say untrained I might as well say really stupid. When I worked in one I saw a fillipino nurse? put butt ointment on this older gentlemen's face everyday. I explained to her what she was doing and she pretty much ignored me. The guy looked like he had permanent rosacea and I doubt it will ever get better as long as that idiot is working there. It all comes down to the greedy getting greedier and America's lovely "melting pot" of foreigners ready to work for peanuts.Welcome to the new wonderful times.try your damndest to not get sick and end up in a place like these.
they are under the medical professionals license, such as a medical assistant or for that matter a cna who draws blood in a MDs office would be working under that MDs license
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