AddisonLawrence03

thanx. may I ask why you decided to leave the RT field and go into nursing?

what was the level of difficulty?

It's a twelve hour shift and he requires a lot of work just getting him in and out of the car. He has cerebral palsy

Argumentative would be a better word lol

Usually, another family member takes him to church but this person is in rehabiliatation, so now I take him on my shift. I've had a few homehealth jobs assignments here and there, and I've never had to take a patient to church and sit through service with them. So this is new to me. I don't enjoy this at all. I thought my duties as a homehealth aide were to help around the house, and maybe run a few errands like pick up some groceries. I didn't know I had to do all of this. The agency didn't even make me aware of this

Right now I am doing part time homehealth aide work. One of the duties that I have been doing for my patient is taking him to church, and I sit through the 2 hour service with him until its done. Just curious, do you think that I should talk to the company about this? I really don't think I should have to do this at all. And if I refuse to take him, he gets really combative.

I got into the Rad Tech program. I see that there is a bit of physics involved and I've never taken a physics class before. Will this be a disadvantage for me?

Yes, I know that feeling too well. The OCD patients can sometimes be mean, and so unreasonable, which makes it very hard for me to like them and my job. I recently got accepted into Radiology Tech school, and I am debating if maybe I should just pursue this instead of nursing. I know the job market isnt' quite as plentiful as nursing but if I cannot stand what I am doing now, I dont think its going to get better if I become an RN. Or maybe I will like it I dont know.

It's the OCD patients that I have a very difficult time working with. You have to do things a particular way or else they go off. I can't please them at all. Don't know why, it seems other home health aides or CNAs deal with them a lot better than me. I never seem to do anything right with them, and they make me hate my job

I've never worked in a hospital. Just in a LTC facility and as a homehealth aide. What do you like about working in a hospital?

Well what area of nursing can I avoid this?

I like helping patients as long as things go quickly and smoothly. But those type of patients are far and few in between. Some of them purposely make your job more difficult. For instance, I had a patient who is disabled, and needs to be transferred with a hoyer lift. I got him completely dressed in his clothes only for him to tell me he has on the wrong pair of underwear--he instructed me to go into his dresser to get him a longer pair of underwear because he's cold. My face just dropped. He could have told me this before.

I don't know. That's why I am asking. RNs can go into many different fields. A CNA cannot. I thought maybe I can find something in the RN field that I enjoyed more than dressing, bathing, and feeding all day

Rude, and ungrateful patients. Patients that take forever to get them dressed. Every 5 minutes they need something. Constant critiques over every little thing.

Well??