MysticstarD

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1. Patient Care Tech duties..replacing Nursing duties?

   MysticstarD replied to c5150b's topic in General Nursing

   I don't have a problem doing it. I just did not want that to be all I did all day. I wanted to learn other things. I like to learn as much as I can and work in different areas and PCT gave me that vs CNA. At a nursing home I worked assisting a Physic...

2. Patient Care Tech duties..replacing Nursing duties?

   MysticstarD replied to c5150b's topic in General Nursing

   About the changing thing. I enrolled in PCT because aside from being a good foot into nursing I wanted to do more than wipe behinds and wash patients (I thought that was what CNAs were for). At school we were told over and over again that we were not...

3. Patient Care Tech duties..replacing Nursing duties?

   MysticstarD replied to c5150b's topic in General Nursing

   I started out as a Patient Care Tech on my way to RN. I went to school for 9 months and did 2 months of internship. 1 month at a nursing home and 1 month at a hospital. We are trained to do IVs and Catheters in school also phlebotomy, Physical Therap...