SavingGrace007

Amen! You are one of those Nurses that this PCT LOVES to work with and I will work my tail off for you! Blessings!

That was such a good reply and as a PCT I see it all the time. Nurses putting off duties that they could do when I'm really busy and overwhelmed already. Making patients wait because they don't want to help. I have felt like saying many times "Why are you a Nurse or why did you become one if you don't like taking care of the patient"? It is frustrating for me and makes my job miserable when I work with RN's that act like that...like it is beneath them to do a blood sugar or change a patients gown, etc? Perhaps that is why the OP doesn't like working as a PCT and if so I hope she is learning what not to do when she graduates and becomes a Nurse!

Do you have to be an RN to do this job? I'm a PCT/MA who has worked for 10+ years in the medical field plus 6 years in a hospital. I'm trying to get out of the hospital! It's literally killing me. ☹️

What a GREAT answer! I'm glad you found a job that brings you peace! Money means nothing when your miserable and dreading a job.

That's the best answer here! Happiness and peace are waaay more important then "things". Amen!

Hello Everyone, As I read the message along with the suggestion my heart broke for the nurse who wrote saying she hated her job. The reason why it broke was because she poured out her heart regarding her hatred towards the job and didn't get any answers but instead was told to think differently about her job that she said she dislikes! I know how that feels because as a Patient Care Tech/ Medical Assistant in a hospital who works around nurses and patients I have come to hate my job as well and I as well as the OP dread going to work. I have even quit nursing school because I dont think I want to spend any more time and money on a field that I dont believe I would enjoy. I am so thankful that I found this out BEFORE spending a fortune on nursing school! I work along side many nurses who hate their work. Feeling stuck is a horrible place to be and I believe that if you don't like your life... your job... then you shouldn't be told to disregard or stuff that feeling and just "feel better" by thinking another way! Isn't that called denial? The nurse has obviously tried various avenues in her nursing career all with the same result... dread about going to work... and again that is a terrible place to be. Your suggestion was like telling someone to like eating meat when their a vegetarian and they don't like meat. You wouldn't tell them to find something good about meat and just eat it! Or would you? Clearly the OP doesn't like nursing and she needs something else or another option which you didn't provide. Is there another field that she can perhaps get into that uses her degree with minimum training, etc? Please could someone give her some hope... some encouragement? Thank you!

I worked at an assistant living for one year and then started applying at hospitals. I've worked in every department in the hospital for the past five years. I have talked to many new techs over those years who came straight in with no experience and only a CNA cert! Be professional, get a great looking resume, look professional and start going on the hospital websites. Don't let that one-year experience issue keep you from applying. After you apply online and download your resume wait a few days and take your resume in HR as a hard copy. Introduce yourself to HR and say that you are a PCT and would love to be a team player at their hospital. Shake their hand and tell them you can start immediately. If you believe in yourself, look sharp and do this....I can just about promise you that you will get the job. Tenacity and self confidence work! ❤️❤️❤️

Hi... I am wondering if anybody knows if there's a company that hires agency or travel PCT's and what is the pay and perks if there is such a job.

$18.50 plus anywhere from $1.75 to $5.75 shift diffs for working nights and weekends. I have worked hospitals for five plus years, worked at an assisted living facility one year and was a certified medical assistant for five years so about eleven years medical experience under my belt. Good money working nights and weekends but hard on the body. I'm looking to get out. I'm stressed to the max on Med Surg. I live in the Dallas Texas area.

Don't you give that person a smiley face. That person has no clue what they are talking about and as far as clarifying anything...they have no right because they don't even have a clue as to your job or the importance of it. The high and mighty nurse who thinks that a piece of paper or passing the nursing exam makes them a nurse. I have news for them IT DOESN'T!!! Nursing is a gift...a calling...and since I can see no compassion or respect in their replies I don't consider them nurses! Who asked their opinion anyway...this is a PCT section so they can go back to the corner they crawled out of!!!

Really tasks? You are ignorant! Go copy and paste your important charting! The job that keeps you from your patients and keeps you from knowing what the patient care tech actually does! How would you know her job? Do you work at her hospital? Sounds like you have a God Conplex or you are a phychic? Are you an administrator? A CEO? I didn't think so because you don't know what your talking about and if you are a nurse and I was your tech I would report you to HR!

Yah... I agree. God complex and if they only really knew what those with a higher grade pay think about them they wouldn't be on here acting like their all that! I wouldn't want that kind of nurse taking care of me or anyone I loved cause if they treat the techs who are their assistants like that how do they treat their patients! Never have I seen so much disrespect!

You are ill-informed and ignorant. We do everything a nurse does except for meds and the ridiculous "charting" if you can call copy and paste charting and we do a lot more! How pompous of you and rude to talk that disrespectful about the OP's job that you know nothing about! My nurses wouldn't be able to handle it if I wasn't caring for the patients the way I do! Tasks? Really? You call changing dressings, EKG's, blood sugars, vitals and placing heart monitors on patients tasks? Your in the wrong profession if you view those things as merely tasks! Vital signs and knowing how to take them correctly is what Dr's and nurses used to do BEFORE all the ridiculous brainless copy and paste charting was done that has NOTHING to do with patient care! Most of our nurses sit on their butts while I do patient care. The only thing I don't do (and I could because I'm also a medication aid but my hospital policy doesn't allow it) is give meds and I see the nurse in the room for 15-minutes if that to give meds! So who knows the patient? Who listens to the patient and who has a relationship with the patient? I DO...The lowly patient care tech! Wow... you need an attitude check dude!!!

Hello, I think this post is old so I'm not sure if you will even see this but my thoughts as a PCT/MA is that the responses here are very rude accept for maybe one. I feel for you OP and hope you got some peace about your frustrating situation. Being in a nursing support situation is not easy and it is sometimes a thankless job especially if your working with those that have a God Complex. And for those who commented. Yes... PCT's work in ER's, ICU's and anywhere in a hospital. I know because I am one and they need me and I do a lot and work my a-- off. No I don't do meds or the same duties as an RN or even an EMT but there's lots to do in a busy ER and I'm not talking about wiping butts. I am certified to do EKG's, wound dressing changes, send blood to the lab, do blood sugars, and help wherever I am needed and I am needed and treated with respect where I work. I've often been called a nurse even by my nurses but mostly by the patients because I am professional. Most importantly....EVERY role in a hospital is important because it's all about team work. A PCT....even a CNA, janitor, cook, transporter, phlebotomist, respiratory tech, etc, etc are all part of a tapestry that woven together creates a complete package that makes a hospital run correctly. I'm tired of viewing remarks on this forum that are derogatory because someone isn't an RN. I'm telling you this! A patients daughter was yelling FOR ME last week in MedSurg (I'm a float tech) not the nurse and the nurse was in the room. So before you start judging your nursing SUPPORT you better get some more information because it sounds like you have no clue as to what PCT's do in a hospital setting. Sounds like the OP had/has a pretty important job. And by the way...I make more as a PCT then an LVN as far as salary. So please don't disrespect the position just because the OP doesn't wear an RN on her uniform! Cause in the last six years of hospital work I've seen nurses that shouldn't be in the profession and I've seen techs that should be nurses. Would you like a DR. treating you the way you are treating the OP? Didn't think so.

Hello, I need some practical help and encouragement. I am currently a CNA/PCT in a hospital and I really want to go on to become a nurse. Problem is I am 57 years of age. When I was in my 20's I was a Medical Assistant and I was working on my pre-reqs in preparation to become an RN. Then I started having kids and put everything on hold. I didn't work for 15 years and didn't go to school. Now my kids are grown and I am divorced. I work really hard at the hospital and barely make ends meet financially. I have nobody to help me through school and am kind of alone all the time..no boyfriend, etc. I guess I am scared that I am too old, and I am not very good with math. I have wanted to do this for years and the desire is constantly there but for some reason I keep dragging my feet. I don't know where to begin as it has been years since I have been in school. Any suggestions, encouragement, etc.. would be great.. I have a natural compassion with the patients and I would be so thrilled to achieve the goal of becoming a nurse.