I did a whole day of RT Work
So I was with this one RT and i had to admit she was really cool and was very knowledgeable. I had 8 patients to do and every RT would know that mornings are a drag. All your Q6s + Q4s are all in the same time. I did all the patients and treatments in about 3 hours. That is probably long but hey students lag so much. I didn’t mind doing all this work because I learned so much. I actually felt as if I was really working in the hospital. She was always next to be observing and helped a few times. But about 80% of the time I did all the work. I’m not complaining because this helped me realize one thing
Can I really do this for my career?
I simply answered myself with . YES.
The work is time consuming but time flyes by so fast. The 8 hour shift felt like only 2 hours. They said don’t let the RT give you all the work load but for the first time I accepted it to see if I can really do it. I loved it! But I know ill get sick and tired of it when I realize I’m working for free. LOL. I gave a Tx to this one patient. For the first time I gave a SVN for TOBI
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Anyways I was in the room for 30mins!!! I was like this takes soooo long just like Xopenex and Atrovent. Well I put the LPM to 7 and OMG it took so long. Well that was a day in clinical. There was also a Code but when I go their ( was in the middle of a SXN) I watched all the physicians for 30mins after I did my Tx because the Pt had a heart block. I didn’t know that people can still be conscious with a blood pressure of 30 ( i never learned about it ) . The physician injected him like 6+ times while I was there and they said they needed to put something but couldn’t find the artery. I didn’t get much detail because I didn’t want to ask a lot while they were rushing to get this patient back up. I had to leave with the RT because another RT told her to take her lunch and he can take over. She said the physician should have not tried putting the needle in that many times on that same area. Either call someone else or don’t attempt at all. Well whatever I dont deal with what doctors do because I have no idea what they do in codes.