Hi class my name is Hailey, I am 23 and live in a small town in Ohio. I am currently a Business Office Manger at a nursing home and have been with this company for the last 8 years, starting off in the kitchen and working my way to Business Office Manager. I have my associates degree in medical office administration, and I am also a certified billing and coding specialist. I one day plan to be an
I never thought I would take the actual jump and go back but, In October 2019 I decided it was the best idea and now I graduate in Aug '22! My hopes for this class include pointing out the right and the wrong when maybe it isn't so clear and learning how to handle fraud situations.
With all things COVID-19 going on and getting the vaccine being a high topic recently I was at a doctor's appointment and overheard a slight argument between what seemed to be a patient and a nurse/medical assistant. The medical assistant/nurse ask the patent if he was interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The patient stated they were not interested and left it at that, The medical assistant/nurse on the other hand was not letting it go, she then proceeded to ask why the patient was not interested and when on about how many lives it will save and all the facts she could rattle off about it. The patient looked at her smile and say, "I said no thank you, can we please move on to the next question?" The medical assistant/nurse went on to say how "selfish" this patent was for not evening thinking about receiving the vaccine. She then decided that she was not going to treat an unvaccinated person and had another co-worker treat this patient.
This whole situation was incredibly rude and unnecessary! We all have a choice in if we want the vaccine or not. Someone could be denying it due to medical reasons, religious reasons, or just simply personal reasons. I know working in healthcare currently this is always a touchy subject. At the nursing home I work at we must screen everyone that comes into the building in. Screening by asking if they have any signs or symptoms, if they have been exposed to COVID-19 in the last 2 weeks, been advised to quarantine, traveled out of state in the last 2 weeks, what county they live in, and then ask if they are vaccinated. The last question does not go over easily sometimes, please get very offended by that question, and the answer is simply yes, or no. If they say "I do not feel comfortable answering that" I just mark it as a no. I don't know if some people are mad that they didn't get or mad that they did get it. Either way everyone has a right to if they want it or not