Direct Work With Patients.

[Grand]

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Hello, I am a 2nd Term Freshman.

I want to do some direct patient work in order to get to know, how does it feel to work with patients Tet-A-Tet.

How Can I do It?

I heard of EMT-B/Hospice/Nurse Assistance

Do you know how long does it take to get those certificates?

Which of them(or any others , the ones which will let me to work directly with patients ) relatively easier to obtain.

Which other Certificates Can I get?

By the Way I am resident at Houston, and Texas Medical Center is pretty accessible for me.

Bottom Line:

1) Do I Need a certain Certificate to work directly with patients?

2)What Kind On Certificates Will let me to do That?

Which Will you advice?

Which are more convenient?

Which Look better?

3) How Can I Get Them

How Long Will It Take?

4)Do I need to do any Shots in advance?(hepatitis, any other?)

I have Done Hepatitis 1st 2 of them 8 months ago, In Moscow)))

 

[adeline]

4 years
26 million dollars
genetic material to form a clone in case you are exposed to mutagens

 

[Grand]

4 years
26 million dollars
genetic material to form a clone in case you are exposed to mutagens

Bad Day?!

 

[Web MD]

You don't technically need a license to work with patients directly if you find a doc who has their own practice and you know sterile technique and prove you have the coordination and agility of those little organ grinding monkeys you're good. Also maybe look into being an ER tech?

 

[J ROD]

ER tech would be the fastest and easiest choice to me!

 

[TraumaMed]

I got my CNA when I was 16. Honestly, best clincal experience that I was able to get. I do EKGs, blood draws, CPR, splints all sorts of fun stuff that will be great to put on an app. Also, when shadowing docs I can throw out that I work in an ER so I have had previous contact with patients and they are much more willing to let me follow/help them. You don't need a certificate to work with patients but CNA/EMT only will take a semester and you can do ALOT more than someone without a certificate plus you get paid to do stuff.

 

[loveoforganic]

I got tons of patient contact volunteering in a psychiatric hospital 🙂

 

[BBender716]

Did my EMT-B in a two month intensive summer course. Now I'm working during my gap year as an ER-Tech/ambulance EMT. Easy peasy. Awesome experiences.

 

[mvenus929]

While you don't technically need a certificate to work with patients, it makes it a whole lot easier to find a job in the hospital if you already know what you're doing.

EMT-B, CNA, Phlebotomy, etc usually are semester long (or less) courses done typically through a community college. All are pretty good certificates to get in terms of getting patient contact, but the jobs themselves are pretty different, so check to see what you really want to do before you get the certification. CNAs probably work the hardest with the most grunt work. Phlebotomy is probably the easiest to do on a part-time or as-needed basis.

My hospital requires the hepatitis vaccine series, and I think the MMR vaccine or something. Can't remember. They also required that you have a recent tB test, in addition to the one you get in paper processing. But Hep B is the big one, especially if you do IVs or blood draws.

 

[Frogmanmike14]

Hospice is pretty easy to get started, I worked whenever I had time and training only took 2 or 3 four-hour days. I definitely recommend it, you just read to them and talk to them.

I did my EMT-B course in 10 weeks over summer. I haven't gotten a real job with it yet, but...

Try getting involved with your school's Sports Medicine/Athletic Training program. I was an intern for 3 years. I highly recommend this as well because I learned lots of practical skills and got good doctor recommendation letters. They always want people to work for free.

In my opinion all of these are more enjoyable than research, which I also did, but hated myself while doing it lol.

 

[FirefighterDoc]

Bbender716,
where in illinois are you if you dont mind me asking? Im in chicago. Im also an ER tech and i am a firefighter/emt( mainly on the ambulance) in the suburbs. I just found that to be very interesting lol

But to the OP, yeah i also did my emt over last summer. Its just so nice now to actually be getting all this clinical experience and be getting paid as well. I've seen sumemr CNA courses all around as well. The main thing is you want at least some sort of heath-related training/experience before you can actually do things with patients (or at least to get paid for it).