Ryan Walker

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone hear knows anything about PTAs and there career. In regards to patients bodily fluids and clean up of that. How often do they do clean up in the hospital setting vs out patient facilities, or home health. I know a nurse that said she sees PTAs in the hospital changing some type of poop bag on the stomach.. But is that the extent of the clean up or is there more that I don't know about. I am hopefully going soon, to shadow a local PT and hopefully PTAs at the clinic down my street. Just wanted some insight before I start moving towards this program.

Yeah, that's a lot of stuff I didn't even know about... I am looking into other careers like PTA at this point. I think they should be dealing with less of that, if any for the most part.

Do you think because of the cleaning aspect?

Okay, thank you for that. I am definitely in the process of reconsidering professions. I know I do want job security (as much as possible), and a good pay, not that it is guiding my choice, but plays a role. I am on my 6th year of being out of my science courses, and a lot of schools require under 7 years of taking your BIO courses, some say 5 years. This is why I am in a rush. But, I understand where what you say here. Maybe I should look into shadowing nurses and RTs for a bit and come back to applying next year. I also looked at dental hygiene lol. like I said, I'm everywhere in mind. Just need more exposure with these fields before applying to programs.

Do you think that if I am already having an issue with the poop clean-up, that is really going to effect me to the point of changing careers after I finish (if I make it through) school? Any advice on this from an RN, like yourself, would be greatly appreciated.

I definitely want more of a varied option for future advancement in the career, so that's why nursing sound better. Are you a nurse or RRT? If so, do you see a certain type of personality in either of the fields?

Hi, my name is Ryan. I had some questions about mainly two professions. Respiratory therapy and Nursing. I have my associate degree (AGS) with a emphasis in nursing at a community college here in Oregon. I received this back in 2012 and I ended up moving to California for a bit to go to a bible college for 2 years. That experience was a blast! After finishing there, I decided to pursue my original career in nursing, but I am now having a few worries about this as my career. I am totally undecided, but I do know I want to work in the medical field. I know a lot of people dissect each sentence on these forums and answers little issues but if you could look at my overall questions without judgement, that would be appreciated. I would love to here the truth though without general statements about the careers! Okay, so basically my worries are... I don't know about nursing because of the c diff, BM, cleaning poop. I know everyone says to get over it, But I have been in multiple settings with family members in the hospital and I DO NOT like that smell, and I can not imagine cleaning. From you opinion do you think that because of that, nursing is not going to be the career for me? From my understanding most, jobs want 1-2years of acute care. It seems that you are going to get cleaning poop in most hospital jobs right? I seem to have a bit of anxiety at times when I have had job in the past and I hear nursing is stressful, for the most part. I know I didn't mention RRT much, but that is kind of the two careers I am looking into right now. Any advice or warnings would be appreciated! Oh and btw it's January 2016 and applications for programs are over the next few months from now till around may (the latest) here on the west coast (Texas, Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona)