Allied health professions Puns

Hey everybody! Long time lurker, first time poster.

Maybe this is a little off topic, but, I was wondering what allied health roles you would direct people to instead of PA/NP?

I'm a lab technologist who originally felt that PA would be a good next step for me... but... after doing some research and shadowing, It doesn't seem like a good fit for me. I think the best way to sum it up is that I don't like the idea of filling roles that could, ideally, be better filled by another profession. Not to disparage good PAs, but, it's just not for me.

So, I'd love to hear what allied health professions you guys have had a positive experience with. I think it would really help me figure out the next step in my career. Thanks guys!

Are there any other allied health professions where licensure and certification are optional in almost every state? Or is it just the lab?

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for my situation, but I'm looking for opinions on what I should do next/if my line of thinking is incorrect. Mods please remove if it is not appropriate.

I am a second-semester student physical therapist, pursuing my doctorate in physical therapy. Since I started grad school, I've always had an inkling that I may not be as happy with PT as I once thought, and that medicine may be more for me, but I never voiced those concerns to anyone and had been ignoring the idea that it might not be for me, largely since I had already invested so much time in to getting in to PT school.

During my first semester I had the opportunity to work for a very well respected MD at a local hospital, working as an assistant to his son, who has a physical disability. I've had the chance to get to know him over the past 6 months or so, and I've been at his house with his son anywhere from 12-15 hours a week during that time span. Yesterday, while I was working, he approached me with concern that he did not think PT school was right for me. His basic argument is that he sees qualities in me that are more suited to be an MD (in his words: hard working, curious, passionate about medicine, leadership ability, and personable); and the PT profession would not challenge me, or give me opportunities, the way being an MD would. He voiced that if I do decided to change, he would help me however possible through the process and write a recommendation letter for me.

So basically, him saying this sort of made my intial doubts 'real', to the point that I can't ignore it any more. I still have tons of conversations to have with friends/my advisor/parents, and I need to shadow different physicians and research more in to what I'd need to do to be able to apply. Am I insane for thinking about giving my spot up in a PT program? Is there anything you did in figuring out medicine was for you that you found particularly helpful?

I would like to go off on long term trips (6 months to a year or more, use WHV before I age out). I’m currently in grad school. Do I have to schedule them like a gap year before writing licensing exams after graduation or do I have to rewrite licensing exams each time I come back after a long stint abroad?

So, my wife and I are both allied health professionals wanting to start a private practice in the profession. She'll be working part-time (so lower income overall), me full-time, in our salaried positions. For tax benefits, would it be more beneficial to register the small business in her name, and have me as employee, or have both as equal partners? Or would it be better if we operate as separate entities? Please let me know if this is something that would be better answered by a tax professional/financial planner. Just looking for ideas at the moment. Cheers.

Edit: Addit - the private practice will be in addition to our salaried jobs.

I'm a medical student. My school's hospital has always treated nurses like crap - several nurses have told me it severely underpays its nurses which has led to many nurses quitting.

The Omicron spike has exacerbated these issues in our school's hospital. Now they are asking us medical students to volunteer. Some students asked if we would be paid for this. Someone else snarkily posted a link to the definition for altruism in response.

To me, it seems like we're backstabbing nurses by essentially operating as scabs. I get that Omicron is hitting us hard, but maybe I would feel more comfortable with this kind of thing if it was accompanied with a commiserate pay raise for nurses (to be honest, it may have been, I really have no idea).

What's your take on this?

I am honestly curious, because I work in the OR we already have a pretty distinct and delineated set of responsibilities in the room when working on a patient. With training nurses can do both Sterile and nonsterile roles although for the most part Allied Health can't due to licensing requirements.

When I got my CNA I remember that I could do moving, assist with ADLs and just about everything except for getting and giving meds. Now tho with the amount of patients in hospitals and the already abysmal pay of RNs let alone Allied Health it seems may be an issue of whom is actually left to do the work rather than an issue of formal delegation and redesigning responsibilities.

Any thoughts or inputs?

Hi all,

So, I'm really interested in going into healthcare, most likely allied healthcare (I'm thinking maybe nuclear medicine or something genetics or neuroscience related). I also really love art, and learning languages (current one is French). I would really love to double major or minor in French or art, and I definitely want to take French and art classes.

The thing is, there's only one college in my state that has allied healthcare majors (including a nuclear medicine one!!). But, it doesn't have any art classes, language classes, etc, since it's specifically a STEM school.

I could to to a college that I know has good art and French programs (as well as a other really cool minors available that the STEM college doesn't have), but the only degree that's close to what I want is neuroscience, forensic science, human physiology, but none of those would set me up for as specific of a career path.

What are y'all's thoughts on this? I've got a good long while until I need to decide, but I'd love to know if there are any factors I should consider.

So I am burnt out. There's no doubt about it. I'm a traveler, so I suffer through work because I make $1,600 per shift, so I feel like I can tolerate it a little bit better. However I am realizing I need to distance myself from nursing.

For me, this means staying off the nursing subreddit on my off days. Not discussing anything to do with healthcare or hospitals on my off days. Not talking about work, not talking about covid, ignoring anything I see on social media that has anything to do with the healthcare field. Nothing.

When I do work, I'll go to the nursing subreddit talk about covid and all that. But I realize on my days off I need to FULLY switch the nurse in me "off." I've found that this makes my job and, well, my life more tolerable. If I only have to be in "nurse mode" 3 days a week instead of 24/7, the burn out is manageable.

Coupled with therapy, my life is much better after instituting this then it was previously. I suggest y'all try it.

what do you want to do in the future? do you have a specific career in mind? should I just take all of my major requirements thug it out and see if I can find a job after college? I used to be premed but now I don’t know what I wanna do anymore

Come 2022 there will be around 60 doctors exiting the profession or otherwise leaving the public health sector. 1000+ Nurses and other allied health professionals as well.

Some of the doctors who are signalling their intent to exit the profession in light of the mandates are GPs in regions already stretched to breaking point for GP coverage. We already know how understaffed our hospitals are so nurses exiting the profession could spell unmitigated disaster across the country.

I think the government has dramatically underestimated the discipline and fundamental principles of NZs healthcare professionals. They believed threatening their careers and livelihood would force those who were resisting but as the deadlines loom and we've already seen one extension I think government is waking up to the realization the numbers are not in their favour.

So will the government back down on the healthcare provider mandates, your predictions?

Hi! I'm about to apply to my school's radiation sciences program and these are my two paths I'm deciding on. Would you recommend a career in these? Or healthcare in general? I know many people keep saying healthcare is horrible and to run away but I'm holding on to the words of those I know who enjoy their jobs in healthcare. It just seems everywhere online people hate working as any healthcare provider.

Guess I'm just looking for some guidance and encouragement that I'm not throwing myself into a volcano or something.

(Sorry for poor grammar I'm half asleep writing this with nerves after reading the nursing subreddit)

This question was removed by the moderators from the Ontario subreddit. Apparently the answers would be too....inflammatory? That's a guess. I was not given an explanation. Perhaps I could get some honest answers here. As a health care professional myself, who has come very close to leaving for a variety of reasons, I'd be really curious to hear any insights from others.

Hello! I am an incoming grade 11 student in USTSHS, Health Allied Strand. I need tips on how to survive SHS lolz.

1. What do you prefer? Laptop or iPad?
2. What application softwares should I have?

Thank you!

Anyone have Allied Health Insurance out Chicago Illinois. Do they have good coverage for gender dysphoria ?

Article: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/11/24/butyrate-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-long-covid-bacteria/

This is what I've been trying to fix myself, and this article is a FANTASTIC summary of what's going on and possible interventions. I've recently added Andrographis to my stack after its usage in a research paper on Gulf War Illness in mice.

I was driving back to Texas this weekend through Oklahoma and saw a billboard in a small town advertising "Christian couples counseling". I rolled my eyes so hard I gave myself a headache.

Even before I started a graduate program for psychology, I was skeptical of Christian "therapy". Any system within the counseling arena where someone doesn't actually have to have a degree in the field and a license strikes me as automatically sus. Compound religion on top of that and it's left me wondering: why pay someone to pray with you when praying at home is free. I don't want to call it a scam. It's honestly more sinister than that.

Because Christianity is a fucking cult that has a vaguely defined collective enemy they refer to as "the world", they then have to have their own version of everything. Oh, they'll still enjoy things that, in a vacuum, are quite worldly. But, they'll use a cheat code and filter it through their Jesus lens and it's totes cool to experience the world in that specific way.

I feel really bad for queer or non-binary/trans people who have no choice but to visit a "Christian therapist". I'm not saying that all Christians are anti-LGBTQ+ whatsoever. I am saying that I have a hard time thinking that a person who goes into Christian therapy would be a queer/trans-affirming individual. I hope I'm wrong. I don't agree with the idea of Christian therapy, but I would be pleasantly surprised if a Christian therapist was genuinely supportive.

Christianity has poisoned the well so severely that followers very frequently distrust psychologists. Or, they don't reveal they're in therapy cuz they know the Karens in their church will shame them for it.

I'm not trying to simp for the psychology industry either. In my current class, the required textbook I've been reading gives a fair, sufficient, and thorough take down of past mental health practices. Particularly how mental healthcare did not service non-white clients effectively due to a lack of cultural competence.

I will say, tho, the reason a therapist has a license and is answerable to a licensing board is to hold them to account so they are engaging in best practices.

I think this is what bothers me the most about Christian "therapy". If a Christian counselor mentally tortures a gay client and telling them they're "broken and sinful", they are answerable to no one because they're not licensed.

And don't even get me started on Christian rehab centers and Christian

I find this very odd. The second anyone intends to take their lives, they *must* be willing it purely as a result of mental distortion, and there is *no* possibility that the decision is assessed properly, and they *have* to be hospitalized without question. It almost comes across as close minded.

I am 15m and this started last year. Last year I wasn't allowed to go to the school nurse since she called cps because I showed signs of leukemia. My dad almost fought her and everything. 1 day after my birthday his wife divorced him (July, don't know if this might explain the mental one.) But now he's not letting me see the nurse or doctor and I've been having some real issues and again showing signs for leukemia.

We are well off on money so I'm not sure why he won't let me go

I don't know what to do and I really don't want to get him into any legal trouble.

Just thinking about signing up for basic gath insurance after two covid scares,a shit show of a cold and now a weird phlegm cough that's knocked me out. Can't go to a Dr so was wondering,they decent or nah?