Working, in Hospitals

[flow]

Okay, I don't really want to work anywhere. But apparently, that's not a good way to go through life.. especially if you want to buy things from time to time.. or have a house, or eat food of nutritional value. So with that being said, I've spent my first 23 years of life deciding where I don't want to work. I've narrowed it down to almost everywhere, with the exception of hospitals. I find that I truly admire everyone that works within a hospital, and I've always enjoyed working to help my fellow man. Originally I was thinking psychological work was the most interesting, so I wanted to be a psychiatrist or a psych nurse. Psychology classes deterred me from the field though, as I found it was flooded with fools and dominated more by pharmaceuticals than actual therapy (I may be wrong here, that was just my general impression while in college). I've since changed my mind, I don't necessarily want to be a psych nurse anymore, though I'm not opposed, but I'm looking for other ideas.

Anyways, what positions in hospitals do you most admire, or have interest in? Would you ever want to work in a hospital? If so, doing what?

Also anyone's imput with actual experience working in a hospital would be greatly appreciated.

 

[beastie]

I enquired about a position today as a mortuary assistant. Unfortunately it required lab experience but it was worth a shot trying. I think I would find it interesting, quiet and logical.

 

[ozzieflipflop]

Definitely! Death is just a state of being, or not being, and is very interesting......

 

[ifelloverboard]

If the position of being Dr. Cox was available. I would take that.

 

[ozzieflipflop]

I've worked in intensive care (nursing).......suited introversion, intuition and thinking ....but not perceiving??? Your colleagues are generally ESFJ....

 

[nickgray]

If the position of being Dr. Cox was available. I would take that.

And I'll go for House's position

 

[Tink]

Well, imagine this...you're walking along the corridor staring at the lines on the floor thinking that they are a good choice for flooring because they don't show the wheelchair marks then you remember wheeling an old lady into the shower an hour ago and, gosh..she's still there..oh no! You run back to the shower when someone stops you and says, "have you given Mr Jibby his needle for theater we're about to take him, so you run off to the drug room and while you reach for the drug ampule which is always kept in the blue box you fail to realize someone has placed the wrong ampule in there just in time for you to pick it up, distracted because you notice a new notice on the wall about education sessions starting that afternoon, you pause a little too long to look when someone calls out, we're off to theater, you rush out and quickly inject the wrong drug just before they wheel the trolley off but that's ok because it was into the wrong patient anyway. So the relatives are there and notice your mistake so they call the charge nurse and just as the charge nurse comes over your little old lady who was left in the shower crawls out into the hall naked and dripping with wrinkles on her wrinkles crying and asking for you. Then you discover you actually came into work on your day off but you got muddled because you lost your calender.

 

[ozzieflipflop]

yep, that's what I mean about "perceiving" not judging! Whilst neglecting a patient in the shower and giving the wrong drug to the wrong person you've designed a new no-fail drug delivery system and automatic shower process.

 

[Toad]

I think I said this before, but I'm working toward being a doctor (psychiatrist, hopefully). I too love to help others. I know this sounds selfish, but the truth is I also enjoy it when people need me to help them too (that sounds so bad). I wouldn't want to be a nurse though. They have to do all the dirty crap. I would much rather use my mind in helping others. So being a doctor is the only choice for me.

I know it's going to be hard, but I'm up for the challenge. Having a goal that seems impossible suits me. It keeps me busy. I'm working towards getting my bachelor degree in psych.

It worries me that you say you "found it was flooded with fools" lol. I hope I'm not one of those fools.

 

[beastie]

... hence the reason for preferring the morgue

 

[ozzieflipflop]

yup, once dead can't get any deader......

 

[flow]

lol, the school I was at didn't have a very good psychology department, I was just terribly disappointed with everyone in it.. the teachers, students, oh it was a frustrating place to be.

 

[Toad]

One thing that bugs me is the smell of hospitals. They have that weird really clean sanitized smell mixed with a staler smell I really can only describe as people not moving...

 

[cuterebra]

Pathology! It doesn't get more interesting than pathology, and it's got just about the right amount of human interaction for an INTP.

This is a link to a survey on the attractiveness of medical specialty by temperament:

http://www.neurocareusa.com/Temperament/mbti chart and specialty.html

It's on the site of some psychiatrist who seems to be really into Jungian psychotherapy--I haven't looked at anything beyond the survey, but it looks like it might be interesting if he's legit.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Once upon a time, back in the 80s, I worked as a phlebotomist in a small hospital's laboratory. It was good work, really, and I rather liked it. (Then again, sticking people with needles is, all by itself, kinda fun.) I spent some time assisting the cytologist and pathologist, and that was good work too. I spent a lot of time alone in the basement when I did my assistant work for them, and that was very nice.

The people I worked with who seemed the happiest with their jobs were the folks in nuclear medicine and in radiology generally.

Doctors and nurses seemed pretty stressed. Though if you want to live at a crazy pace and are an adrenaline junkie, that might be the way to go. I think that the introverts, however, stuck to fields like pathology.

Dave

 

[Annablueblue]

The people I worked with who seemed the happiest with there jobs were the folks in nuclear medicine and in radiology generally.


Dave[/

I work in radiology and would agree; we don't interact for long periods of time with patients or docs and pretty much are autonomous, all of which is favorable for someone who is introverted. I feel that it is easy to get bored though; about a year after doing x-ray I trained for cat scan, and now 2 years after that I'm thinking about training for mri. Most of the work I do is emergency diagnostics and I do enjoy it; a lot of adrenaline and stress but I feel like I'm doing something positive and helpful for someone else.
Pathology would be great; if I could start over again that is where I would go.