hospital jobs are not always glamorous

Maybe they wear some kind of mask over their face so they don't smell anything for long, I know what you mean though, that kind of job stinks. But the pay is good, no doubt. I can't imagine working with that all day and not being sick to my stomach, these people have cast iron stomachs as my mother used to say when someone can tolerate disgusting things. I know alot of them also clean up patients in other ways too so it's not a glamourous job as you said. I think I'd not mind being a sonogram technician or something to that nature, but I guess I'll never fullfill that dream. It is too far gone for me to start again somewhere.

Id agree with you that not all hospital jobs are glamorous but they are all important and help the hospital to function and help treat sick people.It takes a lot of people doing these so called unglamorous jobs to give the doctors and nurses the support they need in order to save lives.

yup one reason I didnt go into nursing give old men the bed pan back then I couldnt do it

I recently retired from being a biomedical scientist. My job was to analyse blood and other bodily fluids (ie urine or faeces). Most of the time I enjoyed it, but on a few occasions the faecal carton exploded with the contents going everywhere. Real fun cleaning that up, it's not something that we would ask the lab cleaners to do. Analysing the faeces for fat content was probably the worst, because it was put into a homogeniser (similar to a liquidiser / cake mixer), some water added to it then mixed to a paste. A little of this was then tested for fat. Although it did have an unpleasant aroma, I didn't like to use air freshener as that gave me a headache, I preferred the natural smell over artificial. Most biomedical scientists work in the background, Many people believe that this job is done by doctors.

Yes, you are right. As a nurse, I never had to do any labs, but I had to collect for the labs. In the hospital I'd have to do straight caths to obtain sterile urine specs for labs.. I had to give enemas, and hold an emesis basis for a person vomiting. I had to change beds with people in them... clean them up when they soiled themselves, and learn not to make a face when the vomitus and feces smelled to high heaven. I remember, as a student nurse, being told by my instructor to watch my facial expression because it conveys to the patient that I find what I'm doing distasteful. So, yes, I learned to not react to the smells and sights of unpleasantness in nursing. It's not all Mary Poppins.

Glamourous? If i were to do some hospital jobs, i'm in it for the money. Doctors and nurses salary are huge. Their responsibility are great. Plus if i'm a doctor, i'll be surrounded by pretty and cute nurses. Hehehe. Anyway, a job is a job, glamour or not, what's important is the duty and responsibility at hand. My thoughts would be these job is way better than some odd job worker with low salaries. Plus, a job as doctor or nurse or even technician at a hospital, especially government funded hospital are guarantee job without the fear of being fired. Health care industry is there to stay, so anyone who works in a hospital, be it government or private will have no worries about late or low salary or being fired.

I never thought of it as so glamorous, although the television series about hospitals all make it look interesting, and do not really show the day to day jobs that are involved. Taking care of people and helping them get well is hard work. It takes a special person to work in the medical field.

Amen sister! I remember the time I had major digestive distress on vacation in Toronto, could nit get to the hospital toilet fast enough, and very accidentally gave the bathroom-crew something to clean up! I was not embarrassed, because I figure hospitals have seen it all, and done it all. Words can not express how much these folks are appreciated.

sorry i just realised id forgotten to take you back off notify till now. i put a lot of my friends on there on notify off when the thing was going on when everyone was doing so many extra discussions. anyway, missed the other discussion. but to answer this im going to say, yes hospital jobs are gross but think of housekeeping in the hospital and motels, hotels, etc. they are the real heros if it comes to cleaning up nasty and they dont get paid as much. I know cause i have worked for lots of motels and hotels before my caregiving days and ive had to clean all the things you can think of. think of something gross and ive had to clean it.

Doctors are generally thought of as being well-compensated in the U.S. However, the crushing student loan debt that many face after all of those years of education is a serious burden for doctors, just as for the rest of us who are in other fields (or trying to be in other fields... thank you, bad job market). I know that I couldn't work in healthcare in any capacity. I do not like being around random sick people. I'm a bit of a germaphobe. I also would not have the patience to work with certain populations such as psychiatric patients on a daily or almost daily basis. It would simply be too draining.

That's right my friend. There are people who have high tolerance on this few stinking items you mentioned above. Yuck...I hate also this job. Thanks for responding my friend... Mobhomeir here 071512 1605hrs

I don't think that hospital jobs are glamorous. I have worked in hospitals myself and I liked working there. All of the practical things and techniques that he had to learn weren't by biggest interest. I learned those things because it was neccesary, but my main interest was the interaction with the patients. I would have been happy in a job as a psychoterapist, and I still haven't given up that dream. When you have a hospital job dealing with vomit, urine, feces etc becomes a habit and I didn't think much about it after a while. The main problem was not the practical things but the stressful working conditions. We never had enough time and we had to rush from place to place all day long.

I suppose that no easy job in the world.What we really need to face is that a good attitude.Job in the hospital is also not easy coz they also have to see happy and also bad moments.People may all experience this,just treat it using propriate attitude and that's basically my thoughts on that.