It Went There

..and I didn't want to. I didn't want it to become that sort of issue. What kind of issue?

A MONEY issue. Don't you love those?

My career building interests are torn between 2 possibilities:
Health Information Technology (which is medical coding)-less money
Respiratory Therapy (which is like a nurse, but no poop clean-up)-more money

You can watch while I weigh this out.

Okay, so I want to stay in the medical field. Both of these choices enable me.

With Health Information, it sounds like something I've talked about before. Something interesting, but not a lot of contact with people/patients which is always a plus. Reading medical records? ....Sweet!

As for being an RT, I would be dealing with patients a lot and basically saving lives. And with all the important miracle working, there's a lot of mundane things as well, I get that. I've been reading RT blogs a lot. I read blogs of RTs who are burned out and frustrated.

I read blogs where the RTs love their job and wouldn't trade it.. at the same time maybe a little frustrated or whatever but who isn't with any job?

Would I be able to draw blood from someone's artery? I've read how to do it online. Would I be able to deal with beligerent patient's? I think about that a lot and I like to think that I would be able to, and then I think, "Well, if not, I guess I'll learn!"

I keep leaning towards RT mostly because of the MONEY.

I don't want to look back one day and say, "I chose this because of the money."

I want to look back and say, "You know, this was a good choice after all."

Which thing would I be doing when I think that?

I DON'T KNOW!!

Thank goodness the application date isn't until June 1st.

Right now, I think it's Health Info that I am leaning towards a bit more. As a Medical Assistant, I tired pretty quickly of neediness, lying, rudeness, and selfishness. And I didn't have that much nurse and doctor politics to deal with. I picture myself being pretty much left alone with that. And it could get boring, but I'm sure I'd have co-workers.

I already have a technical background. I have clinical experience. I think I'm pretty set up for either choice, but probably more so for Health Info.

Like I said yesterday, I HATE decisions!

I still have a soft spot for RT though. It was just a couple weeks ago when I happened upon the program's site and read into it, thinking almost immediately that it sounded pretty cool.

I don't know what else to do. I can talk to the director of the RT department here, but this hospital is pretty small so basing what I get from here I can't apply to any hospital.

I don't know who is a coder here. I'm sure I may see them every once in a while and not know who they are.

I just think being an RT would be interesting. It would keep me interested. I need more time to think on this. But the longer I think, the longer I have to see something else I might be interested in. Like yesterday, I was reading up on Dental Hygeine.

What scares me about RT is drawing ABGs. You have to draw from an artery. Sounds scary, it is! I can learn, just like I did in MA school with just drawing blood.

Like I said, I don't know what else to do. I don't know why I get so scared and skeptical at the last minute. I'm always afraid of jinxing myself. It's too late for that anyway; my husband, my parents, the lady I got my Hep B shot from, they all know and that's not counting the people they told.

But here's the thing. I am so prepared if I don't get accepted to (whichever) a program.

Not accepted? Okay, take A&P, Pharmacology, and that Chemistry class. That will probably take a while since I'm not going to school full-time and still working.

That's enough for now. Plus, it's almost time to go home. It's been hard to get a lot of work done when you have a lot on your mind....

....and a lot of research on the internet of the things on your mind.

:-D