Healthcare Professionals Appreciation Thread

[daboywonder2002]

You cant do lab work online...... you need the practical aspect of it. Non-lab sciences, 99% of the time don't count or transfer. You cant do nursing entirely online either. If your plan is to get into PA school with an online degree, you're going to have a bad time.

thats why i was thinking about taking the required chemistry courses somewhere else. I cant quit my job and go to school fulltime. If i decide to go to UMUC, im only 55 credits away from a health services management degree. Like i said, i either wanna get in PA SCHOOL OR get my masters in nutrition. IF i didnt have kids, i would quit, go fulltime and knock these 55 credits out.

 

[richaveli83]

I'm a respiratory therapist. Been doing it for four years and I like it but I don't love it. Possibly leaning towards going back to school to be a physician assistant.

 

[Truefan31]

I'm a respiratory therapist. Been doing it for four years and I like it but I don't love it. Possibly leaning towards going back to school to be a physician assistant.

can you tell me a lil about your job? hours? pay seems good for this job.

 

[richaveli83]

can you tell me a lil about your job? hours? pay seems good for this job.

I work 7P-7A 3 days a week but I usually work an extra shift every other week. I work every other weekend. Pay is good. I've made $70,000 every year since I started but on average you're looking at between $50,000- $65,000 a year depending on where you live.

I'm actually kind of bored with it because i mainly work the floors which is kinda of boring. Giving a lot of treatments to people who honestly don't really need them. Working in the ICU and critical care floors is so much better. Plus not really much room for advancement in the field.

It's a great field but I don't see myself doing this for the rest of my life.

 

[Killah Ray]

When I finish up my BSN I'm going to USCe to become a PA....

Ready to get school over with honestly...

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Next year, when we add revenue cycle to my duties, I'm supposed to be able to drop the assistant part. I don't know why I'm an assistant controller anyways, I report to the cfo and everyone below reports to me. She's #1 and I'm #2 in finance there.

An update, I'm likely to move from the duties of a controller and into something more analytical in nature such as forecasting, same company for like medical supplies and how much we spend. I work for a non-for-profit so I'm going to pick up grant accounting as well. Its all about rounding out my skills until I leave. I am back in school, this time next year, I should be ready to leave since I'll have my accounting degree. I'm just getting it for the prestige of having it. Director level for a job is the next stop. If I can get a Chief on my title next time, it'd be a home run. I have the skills, education and experience for it but its all about opportunity.

Also, this may be of help. I work downtown Chicago and I make inroads with recruiters. I got this from one of them.

I have one of these for accounting too since I'm in accounting now.

 

[Truefan31]

I work 7P-7A 3 days a week but I usually work an extra shift every other week. I work every other weekend. Pay is good. I've made $70,000 every year since I started but on average you're looking at between $50,000- $65,000 a year depending on where you live.

I'm actually kind of bored with it because i mainly work the floors which is kinda of boring. Giving a lot of treatments to people who honestly don't really need them. Working in the ICU and critical care floors is so much better. Plus not really much room for advancement in the field.

It's a great field but I don't see myself doing this for the rest of my life.

ah thanks. Looks like a pretty good, well paying job. Guess the issue is levels of advancement. I'd imagine the field of being a radiation therapist may be similar as well.

 

[Truefan31]

I work 7P-7A 3 days a week but I usually work an extra shift every other week. I work every other weekend. Pay is good. I've made $70,000 every year since I started but on average you're looking at between $50,000- $65,000 a year depending on where you live.

I'm actually kind of bored with it because i mainly work the floors which is kinda of boring. Giving a lot of treatments to people who honestly don't really need them. Working in the ICU and critical care floors is so much better. Plus not really much room for advancement in the field.

It's a great field but I don't see myself doing this for the rest of my life.

ah thanks. Looks like a pretty good, well paying job. Guess the issue is levels of advancement. I'd imagine the field of being a radiation therapist may be similar as well.

 

[Iamnoone]

When I finish up my BSN I'm going to USCe to become a PA....

Ready to get school over with honestly...

Why with a nursing degree would you go the PA route vs NP or CRNA route?

 

[Killah Ray]

Why with a nursing degree would you go the PA route vs NP or CRNA route?

NP was what I was originally planning on but I keep flip flopping honestly...

My head is telling me to go the np route, but for some reason I started thinking about PA which honestly makes little sense in the grand scheme of things...

I've given myself until September to make my mind up and start getting my application ready...

 

[heart]

Anybody here aspiring to be a physician/dentist/optometrist/pharmacist/physical therapist etc........

Come here and drop some knowledge on anything relating to this subject.

I could not find anything on this site about it so I thought I would start it up

Drop some gems please.

Been working as a pharmacist for over 4 years, passed the boards over 5 years ago but I had to a residency first. I'm the clinical coordinating pharmacist now. I just recently switched 7 on 7 off overnights.

My job is cool but I hate some of the nurses here because they're so incompetent, it's sad but I wouldn't let my family members come here because the nurses and PA's are shtty. I don't like the quality of patient care here, on the medicine side, pharmacy is on point because we can't afford not to.

If anyone has any questions about my field, let me know, I have done retail, nuclear, mail order and hospital..

 

[CarbonBraddock]

I'm about to graduate in december with a bachelors in business/accounting. Gonna do the medical prereqs after that. Hope to be a surgeon or work in emergency medicine.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I'm about to graduate in december with a bachelors in business/accounting. Gonna do the medical prereqs after that. Hope to be a surgeon or work in emergency medicine.

Interesting undergrad to your plans. How do you plan on leveraging that in your career?

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Interesting undergrad to your plans. How do you plan on leveraging that in your career?

it will have nothing to do with my medical career besides for filling the requirement for having a bachelors. i wanted to do medicine years before but was not in the correct place mentally, so accounting at the time seemed like a good fit. I wanted something that would let me get a paycheck. But now, I can handle the rigors of med school and residency so now is the time. Will begin the prereqs right after i graduate. May work part time as an accountant if i can find a job. If not, I will keep my current job.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

it will have nothing to do with my medical career besides for filling the requirement for having a bachelors. i wanted to do medicine years before but was not in the correct place mentally, so accounting at the time seemed like a good fit. I wanted something that would let me get a paycheck. But now, I can handle the rigors of med school and residency so now is the time. Will begin the prereqs right after i graduate. May work part time as an accountant if i can find a job. If not, I will keep my current job.

I was curious because I've gone back just to the accounting bachelors. I don't think I'll need it going forward but no one will ever been able to front on me and say that I don't know money after obtaining the degree. I'm non-clinical whereas you are going to be clinical. You never know though, healthcare is so wide and varied that this may come in handy in the future.