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Patient Care Technician Reviews
What is it like working as a Patient Care Technician?
February 2017
Patient Care Technician in Salem:
Pros: My patients.
Cons: The pay is not good.
January 2017
Terrible Communication, Wonderful Patients.
Patient Care Technician in Butte:
Pros: My experience at Fresenius is ending with mixed emotions. The patients I have encountered have all been amazing. Many of the people I have had as co-workers have also been wonderful and true assets to our little community.
Coming to work and facing new challenges every day is something I have come to love. Watching patients smile makes my day.
Cons: The management team in our facility has made our jobs near impossible to achieve our mission statement. Also, they have made the atmosphere very bleak.
This is the hardest environment I have ever worked in.
I believe in working "smarter, not harder." Everytime I try to bring new ideas to the table they get shot down. This is a very discouraging place to work.
October 2016
Working as a Pct..
Patient Care Technician:
Pros: I like the exposure and hospital experience, considering I am in nursing school. Being exposed to basic tasks allows me to function as a nursing student, more efficiently. Also, seeing illnesses of all kinds is good exposure for medsurg.
Cons: Pcts are underpaid, and even worse in some places, over others. And some places really overwork their pcts with maxed patients and overflow. It can be quite stressful at times.
May 2016
Patient Care Technician:
Pros: There are quite a few things to like about the position like getting to help out patients when they especially need to have you around. You can learn alot about medicine from the nurses and doctors around the hospital its a great position to begin a medical career. Many people have done so.
Cons: There is quite a heavy load of work required for patient care technians. The work is very aerobic, lots of running around and a good amount of endurance is required for all that one does. There is a lot of lifting like lifting thats not really like regular weight lifting with barbells. But this is not the most physical job I have ever had, I worked in a warehouse loading boxes and I worked harder. I worked more physically as an overnight cook at McDonalds.
The very worst aspect is that there is no ability to progress in this job without traditional education. If you don't intend to work as a nurse you may find yourself doing this job a long time because there is nothing else you can do in your area that pays as well that isn't back breaking labour, which will find a person who wants to achieve something better being very disappointed.
April 2016
Patient Care Technician:
Pros: I am self motivated person and cool.
Cons: I am an angry person.
September 2015
Tough work but rewarded in love.
Patient Care Technician:
Pros: Interacting with patients.
Making a difference.
Cons: Overworked.
Understaffed.
Commute.
Hours.
June 2015
Patient Care Technician:
Pros: The variety of patients and teams of care providers we work with. Also I am able to assist with surgical procedures.
Cons: I do not like the number of patients that are scheduled for burn clinic. Between 30 and 70 patients. Typically they have 3 or 4 rooms to use for seeing the patients. It is very, very stressful for all involved.
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