I'm in the Surgical tech program at my school and I can't say I'm really happy. I didn't realize it would be so much attention to detail. Everything has to remain sterile. Even if you drop your hands, you're contaminated. Instructor makes everyone regown and close glove over the simplest of errors. Besides, the instructor is a very arrogant and have a proud spirit. Listening to him speak, he sounds as if he's a neurosurgeon or something. He always tells stories about how he was working in the OR and some surgeon or first asst. messed something up and wah lah, he to the rescue.
I kind of wish now that I would have gone into either the ultrasound or radiation therapy because it would've been so much easier. We have to sit in class all day long, instead of them having the schedule broken up in sections a little more especially for those of us who work. Instead of keeping students in class 8 hours straight, why not do 3 hours today, 3 tomorrow and 2 the next day. I looked at the schedule in the soft cover catalogue the schools gives out, but the teacher changed the schedule.
Then there is so much to learn in such a short period of time. I feel like I'm in medical school. Not only do you have the lab component, but you have to learn more than 100 different instruments, 100 different types of surgical procedures and the foundations of surgical technology for a total of 4 components. You stand on your feet all day when you start working, and worse yet all the jobs available where I live are part time and must have 5+ years of exp. which I have no experience.
Then I had to go thru all this rigamarole to get in. I had to have all my vaccines done again as I had no immunity to them despite having hundreds of shots as a kid. I have to have a $150 background check done, $200 for books, $$ for profession membership, $$ for student malpractice insurance etc all for a total of around $1500.
Plus I have to drive so far to the campus, which wouldn't be so bad if construction was not going on all the time that I have to get there. I was stuck in traffic really bad one day and got yelled at in class for being 2 minutes late. I have myself 1.5 hours to get there where it normally takes 40 minutes if traffic is not that busy. Then he says, I must give myself more time, when I had. Others come in late to class and he says nothing to them. Geez. I don't know what i'm going to do other than stick it out and get my $1500 worth. btw, surgical tech at this school does not even have it's own lab or room, we have to share with other health departments. I figure, this school has had this program in existence for ages and yet have no room for them. They treat it like an after thought program whereas nursing, ultrasound, resp. therapy and such get treated better with better equipment and facilities.
I know I'm venting, but maybe this will help someone out there contemplating going into surgical tech. I wouldn't do it again. I have to wake up early to get there, and I'm not getting any sleep. The pay only starts at $16-$19 an hour for all the sacrifice and hard work. I wish I had made other plans.
Johnny, I don't think the medical field is for you. According to your interests, you "watch tv, crack jokes, play pranks, prank calls, sleeping and being lazy." Not hardly someone who would be successful being responsible for other people's lives.
You want to work in the medical field because you are a "white male, looking to get into nursing so i can get out of parents house. parents tired of me eating up all of their food and running up their telephone bill. nursing will provide me the money and skills i need to make it on my own."
You might want to keep looking for another career. Good luck to you.
joking. obviously the things you mentioned in your comments that i put in my profile was me having a sense of humor. is the healthcare field that stressed and manic that people fail to see humor in anything? i am actually a very good worker, but kind of private.
How is it intrusive? You supplied the information. You were warned in the disclosures for this site that any information you do supply is available to the viewing public. It's natural for people to wish to get a frame of reference on certain matters or details if something in a post doesn't add up. Unfortunately, there are trolls everywhere online, and details from someone's profile can sometimes alert readers to the presence of such an individual. If you don't want people to have the information, either don't supply it or make it unviewable to other site users. That's an option many members use, and it's perfectly reasonable. I respect your wish for privacy, but supplying false data on a professional forum seems a little rude in my book. Just change your profile if you're worried about people identifying you in some way!
And certainly there is no correlation between looking at a poster's publicly available data on a site any joe or jill schmoe may legally visit at any time and sneaking into a patient's medical file to peruse personal data that is explicitly protected from such violations by law. My goodness, to make that sort of comparison is more than a touch histrionic!
ok, then i will take the info. out and leave it blank then. it seemed to me that you couldn't go further with the registration unless certain fields were filled in. yes, you are correct about the comparison i made, but i'm talking about the propensity of a person to do this sort of thing; prying.
Specializes in ICU, PICU, School Nursing, Case Mgt.
....and yet you state that you are now 25...so therefore, if you started taking prerequisites in 1996--that would still have made you 11????? What's up with that?
Based on what I have read in this thread, I think maybe you may want to take some time and reevalute your choice of careers. At least take a little time to mature.
The healthcare field is not without humor--but it IS INTENSE and can be very manic and uptight
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And please, if you learn one thing, it's HIPAA.....
....and yet you state that you are now 25...so therefore, if you started taking prerequisites in 1996--that would still have made you 11????? What's up with that?
Based on what I have read in this thread, I think maybe you may want to take some time and reevalute your choice of careers. At least take a little time to mature.
The healthcare field is not without humor--but it IS INTENSE and can be very manic and uptight
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And please, if you learn one thing, it's HIPAA.....
i have already addressed the age issue that you mention. go back up and read the threads before yours and you will find the answer to your question, thanks.
Specializes in PACU, CARDIAC ICU, TRAUMA, SICU, LTC.
first, i never put any of my real personal information like bday, social security, mothers maiden name, telephone number, current/previous residences, bank account numbers etc... so someone like yourself can do research on me, find me in the white pages and then show up at my home unannounced. i can't have that. i have to protect myself and personal information. if it askes for a birthday, then i have to put something, but if i feel uncomfortable putting my pertinent information, i am entitled not to. i cannot be pressured into giving out personal information just because someone asks for it.
i never understood why certain people did this (look into your profile) like what you have just done. it's rude and intrusive to me. it kind of reminds me how people violate hippa laws and peek into patients files when they are not supposed to.
HIPPA>>wrong; it's HIPAA. By the way, you are not obligated to give sensitive info, such as b.d. Why bother making it up. It makes one wonder about the validity of your posts.
HIPPA>>wrong; it's HIPAA. By the way, you are not obligated to give sensitive info, such as b.d. Why bother making it up. It makes one wonder about the validity of your posts.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
i never understood why certain people did this (look into your profile) like what you have just done. it's rude and intrusive to me. it kind of reminds me how people violate hippa laws and peek into patients files when they are not supposed to.
Nobody has to look at your profile - it says right on the top of all your posts that you're 25 (which I realize you said you made up a date, but I'm just making the point that it's right there for everyone to see, every time you post).
johnnyDoGood
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joking. obviously the things you mentioned in your comments that i put in my profile was me having a sense of humor. is the healthcare field that stressed and manic that people fail to see humor in anything? i am actually a very good worker, but kind of private.