/hcpg/ - Health Care Professionals General

Continuation of the Male Nurses thread that had some really interesting discussion in it. Hit the bump limit. New thread for those still around. Apparently there are a lot of male nurses on this board (?).

>tfw making $20/hour practically killing myself in this long-term SNF

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Are SNF exclusively for old people or are there like... specialties? I don't know much about them.

>SNF
>jargon
>no explanation

damn healthcare autists reeeeeeeeeeeeee

skilled-nursing facility
i am ur google now

Well I know from UT medical center we send all of our traumas to SNFs which is just code word for rehab of all kinds. Orthopedic or drug rehab. Whichever one.

Which UT?

I know five male nurses. Most are recovering from shitty liberal arts degrees

It's a good escape plan for now. But do your research. You will prick yourself with an HIV needle at some point

Intermountain? If so I hear good things from their Trauma dept.

>Apparently there are a lot of male nurses on this board (?).

And a few of us doctors.

tennessee

Same here. Go Vols. You work at UT Med?

HIV transmission rates from needle sticks are exceedingly low and even lower with post-exposure prophylactic treatment.

I am thinking about going into Occupational Therapy. Same deal almost no men in the field. About to send in apps to schools. Should I reconsider?

Yep 10 east.

How's the puss as a doctor/med student? Is it p. good?

Sup Forums is the best place to meet neighboors

it's mostly long-term but with sub-acute.

imagine homeless """"former""""" drug addicts with hepatitis or HIV, demented elderly, angry post-surgical patients all rolled into one.

What pisses me off the most is when they show up drunk and then when they sober up they lie right to your face about it being a wake-up call and they won't do it again.

yeah man it's great you get all of pic related that you want

Bro you don't leave the hospital as a med student. Grey's anatomy is a shitty show and doesn't represent life as a resident at all.

Imagine working 7 straight days having 2 off and then working 7 again with 13-16hr shifts depending on how much back charting you have to do and being scared shitless to do anything because your attending could come and rip you a new asshole any second.

I've seen first year residents literally crying in a corner as their patient gets coded because they think it's their fault. What kind of sex do you think they get to have? Next to none senpai.

Question for everyone. Are dietitians pointless? Half the time I think we are just in the way.

in good facilities you get those syringes where you don't have to recap and you have push and lock ones or the really good push and twist ones. In ghetto facilities like mine, we have the ones where the only option is to recap. I have actually poked my finger with one of those but I was the only one in contact with it.

What annoys me is not the needles but the HIV positive residents sleeping shirtless and having all these fucking random bruises and open areas, scratches and cuts all over their bodies. How the fuck should I know if their fingers don't have cuts on them? I don't even give a fuck if they accuse me of discrimination. I wear gloves when I am forced to deal with their shit.

No. They are underrated. Electrolyte balance is a real deal.

$20 an hour is good money for SNF. In TN you're lucky to make 16.50/hr in SNFs

I work Home Health. $26.50/hr to be bored out of my mind. I'd prefer the fast paced SNF, but unfortunately it isn't financially realistic.

Hi Fellow Tennessean!!!

anybody whom works in healthcare. and talks about his job without his co workers and outside of work is a pile of ass-nose whom needs to work in the field of hamburger waitressing instead

I've seen attendings literally screaming at residents in surgery. Did OR observations for nursing. Is that normal? Like full on screaming and berating and cursing. It seems like it sucks becoming a surgeon.

Is Respiratory Therapy a good field to go into? It seems pretty interesting.

Hello fellow Tennessean #2

youre a fucking retard. truvada. you retard! are you drinking a pint of his blood you retard? it's not hepatitis you cant catch it from spit or blood. youre shit

>health and health care repulse the mentally ill faggot
color me surprised. i suppose you prefer places that give you aids rather than treat it

Do we all work here or what? Hello my homies. I hope your holiday schedule isn't bad.

you are not providing healthcare. you are gossipping nurse ratcheds. you are what is wrong with healthcare. lazy philippino fat ass

My understanding of those types of jobs is that the pay is decent and the education required isn't extreme, but there's not a lot of room for growth. Could be wrong about that last part though.

Breaking News: HIV is not transmitted via blood.

Wew, what a relief. Thanks, fag.

>tfw studying med

How CAN any man do the profession of a woman, as in be a nurse? I thought this was supposed to be the board of tradition masculinity.

yeah eh? fucken talk like you know better next time. im gone. come and rape me. been working in jobs since i was six doing chores. then at jobs at 12 and 13. bartending underage. been doing hospital work for going on 13 years now dense shit face

? dude, I'm a med tech and I get paid 20$/hr. I thought nurses made alot more

So you can reap the benefits of diversity hiring instead of being crucified everywhere else in the world for being a white male. I can't speak for others but I'm not especially worried about being perceived as feminine but that's because I'm a really attractive guy and it's abundantly clear that I can pull whatever tail I fucking feel like.

charting isn't too bad if you have scribing experience. Probably wrote close to 2k by now

You're either a severely mentally ill faggot or a shitposting Australian. Show your flag. My money is on the latter.

actually, nurses are more suited for males since there is alot of heavy lifting involved

No, I don't work at UT. I am in Knox tonight though, picked up a night shift. Home Health, 12 hours of staring at the clock wondering why I chose to use my nursing license to become a glorified babysitter lol.

My holiday schedule isn't too bad. Day shift Christmas Eve, night shift on Christmas. Came out pretty good, imho.

you have no morals. even euthanasia is spreading. i dont have private insurance world so i dont know what it's like to work in a casino. we MUST treat everybody who walks in door. period. end of discussion. there's LOTS about our work we could bitch about. but it's a battle field and one of most dangerous jobs there is. talking about patients in these contexts is cheap as fuck and low class

not really. you have machines for the heavy ones.

I'm a CMT. Charge an ALF Nights 27 census. It's pretty comfy. File a little bit and toss pills for an hour in the morning.

Only make $12.50 though.

But everything is cheap in the boonies.

Men are invaluable in Nursing. Have you ever tried turning a nearly 500 pound patient without a man? No? Then move along.

no not "not really" you lift everything on your own. sixteen beds' worth of linen? carry it. enjoy it

What the fuck are you talking about. Wait I kinda recognize you. The LGBT flag retard who posts schizo stuff and just spams whatever thread he finds his way into until people start to ignore him.

Yeah I know who you are now.

good. dont be a loose lipped whore. you know nothing about oaths or medicine. look how you treat and stereotype. this isnt political. it's barely even legal. so you cry. im better than you. in probably all ways

Sounds pretty cozy senpai. I thought about working for Smokey mountain home health and hospice. I wonder how their pay is. Home health seems pretty comfy.

you literally have never worked in healthcare you fat fuck

You don't have "machines" that turn the pt. You don't have "machines" for the combative pts that refuse to be put into a "machine".

I literally don't care what a homosexual has to say or think about anything, but seeing you pretend like you have morals is pretty funny. I just wanted you to know that the things you're saying mean nothing to me, and I perceive you as a thoroughly immoral, disgusting "thing" just because of what you are.

>tfw maintenance tech in charge of fixing and maintaining the electronics, washers, autoclaves, generators, helicopter, and everything else that could break thats vital as fuck.
god damn, be gentle with those ekg plugs, like fuck thats expensive to fix.
and would it kill you to sort the trash/sharps out of the linen? come on.

>criticises anybody and their superior morals while saying you dont care
nigger i have some. you have none. why would i care about your cancer ridden aids infested zika super gonorrhea ass? eating periods like nobody's business. i run circles around you. youre in the wrong profession. you are the cow who describes judgmental or embarrassing conditions to other patients and to complete strangers. you let anybody waltz in and do whatever they want. because youre weak. and a diabetic cuckold. just littered with original sin. you have more faith in the serpent than you do in God

We've used Sit-To-Stands and Hoyers for about 10 years now in Skilled. Before that it was a pretty sweet gig as a guy. The girls would follow you as you just picked people up for meals or laid them back down after. You'd plop them in bed and they'd come behind and peri and put the gown on.

Even after we got machines, as a guy, I mostly just rolled residents and held them while they put a tabbed brief on or did peri.

there's no machines to do fuck all

thanks for the (You)s. I thought the thread was dying. I'll try not to shitpost as much.

It usually is pretty comfy. It's more relaxed than a facility, and you don't have to put up with the mouthy bs some patients want to give you. You know the ones. I'd prefer day shift desu. It's always blown my mind the nurses that talk about sleeping on night shift. My luck the first time I did that my pt would kick the bucket and I'd have to explain why I charted that at 6am my pt was resting with eyes closed Resp even/unlabored when infact they'd been dead for 6 hours, lol.

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Seconded. Even interning at a small hospital is 14 hour days most of the time, and if you have any career ambitions then you need to use your free time on further study, professional developement courses or getting published.

The free medical care meme rests on the absolute abuse of junior doctors. Thats why it doesn't work.

your memes are shit and you claim to work in medicine and deny box pox and the death of aids preventing. meds inside only vaginas. kys. youre a larping jew. schizophrenic tranny dyke for real. buy a new bra your gyno disgusts me

I was worried it was dying too. We saved it. This is the portion of my shift where I have to find something to do to stay awake.

Uwotm8

words. fuck off heeb

Aren't you feeling sleepy?

Beyond being a pole-smoker, you are obviously very mentally ill and I hope you don't work with patients in any kind of medical facility. Like I said, I've seen you spam your schizo stuff in threads many times on this board. You really need help.

i would never use the computers for personal use. when i am at work, i am there to work. Also, it's not easy to hide your power level at work.

Rad tech here, I'm actually at work right now. Night shift doesn't see many patients. Shitpost for $30 an hour in my empty department. It's not too bad. Sage because this is pretty off topic.

I'd say there isn't a chance he works with patients, but I've had some pretty low IQ coworkers in my time.

your memes are meaningless. projections of fantasies. nobody likes you. all you do is lie and act evil and tacky. i thought you didnt care about me bitch nigger. only you get candida infections and aids now. and much else. you deserve it. as to anything else. youve said nothing many times. post more garrison jew pics. jews and women go together like the androphobe pedos you are. youre a tranny fucken kike. you hate yourself so when you lose you throw kitchen sink at me and all you do is make threads that are THE ULTIMATE TABOO in the entire profession. you jews ruin everything. and everybody knows it. yourselves included. i dont need to explain myself to your stupid inbred antagonising neanderthal ass. get used to asking for french fries outside a synagogue your whole life. bye

I just finished 6 rotations in general surgery and haven't seen it once. Residents get shit on (I'm a med student), but nothing really that severe. The culture of medicine seems to be slowly changing, even if surgery is lagging behind some.

We don't have computers. Everything is still paper. Charting, POS, MARs and TARs.

I'm a phone poster.

you say nothing. youre a shit headed zombie. go cry somewhere else. you dont deserve the honor. you besmirch it and EVERYTHING AND FUCKING CONSTANTLY IT NEVER ENDS. and then you have the nerve to say what and whom is degenerate. faggot jew nazis. i just told you my level of experience and all you do is bottle your queefs

I'm phone posting. Yeah, it is especially hard to hide the power level at work.

what are the reqs to be a rad tech? how much of a step up is it from a med tech?

Why does it lag behind? Is it the high pressure/mistakes and statistics get attached to your name aspect?

damn chill out. you're arguing in the equivalent of a youtube comment section.

we have paper MARs and TARs but we can chart on computers. Jesus fucking christ i hate cursive so much. It takes so much time to decipher everything. I write as neat as possible because I want everyone to know what the fuck is going on.

All paper charting here too. This shift is a CNA shift though. Had my paperwork done in maybe 10 minutes. Nursing pay for CNA shift in Home health? Don't mind if I do!

In home health 9 times out of 10 if you have a CNA shift the pt is pretty well independent and usually only needs stand by assist

I'm considering becoming a nurse myself but I'm worried as fuck about working in a female-dominated industry. How do you lads get by? I imagine it's all about hiding your true self and being a quiet professional.

theyre terrible. theyre horrible. ativan helps

He isn't making sense. I suspect hardcore drug use.

because? i'd fucking smack your face so hard

Anybody in Missouri? I have to hide my powerlevel here at MU hospital.

See.

see nothing. see your lies and cowardice. i asked you "because". meaning referring to ANY of the prior posts. like you indicted. not "see". "see" is just squaring the circle again. listen asshole. deaths and sins were caused by adam and eve. you dont know what death is. you dont know what are sins. and you help kill people

Honestly like anything else it depends on how hot you are. The girls are all really nice to me and it's frankly like a dream. Just constantly being pampered and complimented and helped out without even asking.

But there are some weird/ugly guys that I see girls treat like shit in ways you wouldn't believe. Talking about them and mocking them in ear shot. Same girls that are great to me.

That's the truth. I have never had issues working with women in general, but that's because they cream their jeans around me.

lies

I guess just the culture of surgery is very unique. Surgeons tend to be very intense people who can react intensely to things not going their way. I think what's happened though is that residents' evaluations of staff actually carries more weight now, so surgeons tend to not explode as much. I have heard stories of attendings losing it, but I've never seen it myself.

And yeah a small incorrect deviation in procedure can be life threatening, which not only can cause the surgery to last hours longer (and you'd have to cancel all your other cases), but the attending surgeon is ultimately responsible. I guess that's why. In other fields like internal medicine there's always some buffer in, say, managing a patient's electrolytes or something, but in surgery, again, small mistakes can have huge consequences.

My fiance just went and job shadowed at Women's and Children's for BSN. In the NICU. I've been to University a few times.

you can't hide. you must ask for help eventually. others will need your help as well. it's not so bad fi you can figure out and deal with different personalities. i never get mad at other people, i only get mad at the situation that i have to sort out myself.

you talk like a slag and a drunken sailor. so also out of your pussy now. oh wow look at me i dont get mad but im throwing my used tampons at a fag for no reason. because im shit

You guys locals?

No, don't hide who you are. Unless what you are is a redpilled autist, then you probably need to hide a little bit.

Hahaha holy fuck, man.

But yeah I agree here. Especially being a med student girls don't automatically get a boner just by default. If you're a senior resident or staff though that seems to change.

Newly qualified doctor here. Loving it even with the long hours.

Why are admin staff so fucking precious about everything? All miserable old women.

i honestly don't give a shit about co-workers. if they fuck up and mess with the care of my residents then i will just write them up. i just do the best i can while learning how to improve at it.

Sorta. Hour away. She works at Fitzgibbon in Marshall. She wants to move to Columbia but I'm a little iffy. Columbia was awesome like 20 years ago, it's fucking horrible now. My brother-in-law was in the drive thru at McDees a few years back and there was a shooting. It shattered the seat belt holder next to his head.

I still miss Tony's Pizza.

you make me paranoid to become any kind of end user of our systems. that is not good. in my job description it says my job is known for having the mental (spiritual) health of nails. you must. but i see people like you. at work. for fuck all. on here. for fuck all. and in the streets. for fuck all. a good man and health worker will pay a leper to barf on him. you are the opposite. thats life. i dont care. my superiors love me. have a nice life ok