u/wandering-firefox21

PTA. In outpatient ortho right now seeing 15-16 pts per day. I’m at work past 6 pm most days and take notes home. Sick of the heavy and quite frankly, overbearing caseload and invasive patients who can watch you from the waiting room and who try to walk past the “break room” to see if you’re ready for them yet because the bathroom is right across the hall…. anyways.

Looking into PRN for either HH or post acute so I can choose my days and live my life again.

-I hear great things about PRN and “you build your own schedule” but is that really true? I would prefer no weekends or holidays but I have a feeling most places only need/want those days. Would i likely be barred or cut, if I told a place i’d want 4 days a week? At least for now while I figure my life out?

-Also any issues with patients not wanting to see you because you aren’t who they’re using to seeing?

Thank you all.

In outpatient right now and have 1 year experience, however do not quite feel ready to take on HH, as I feel I need more experience with medically complex before. I am thinking of picking up PRN at a post acute spot near me.

What was the hardest thing about Post acute when you started? Lines? Lab values? Monitoring pt symptoms?

And if not, would you feel ready to do HH right after outpatient setting?

And is PRN enough to learn do you think?

Thank you.

I am in outpatient and I am simply not happy. The caseload is high, patients we get are high maintenance, and the pressure to entertain patients and coworkers is heavy….I want to go HH maybe PRN for a while to get my spark back.

BUT I am a people pleaser. And severely terrified to let my boss, coworkers, and regular patients , down.

I have anxiety every night about how they may react to my notice once I put it in.

-Any tips from job hoppers out there? -Also tips on when anyone thinks I should put the notice in? The handbook prefers like 30-45 days, but I have had some fellow people tell me to only do two weeks, but I don’t want to screw my coworkers over with scheduling.

Thanks in advance. I feel severely anxious about this.

Hello I am a PTA looking to break into home health and would like tips, apps, tools to help make HH workflow more efficient?

Planning routes, calling pts for the upcoming in week/confirming appts, and documentation. Best way to not let it affect work life balance?

Suggestions on apps and best time/your preferred time to call and schedule appointments for the week?

How much time on a Sunday night does it take to plan out your visits?

thank you.

Hello everyone,

PTA looking to leave outpatient ortho and go to home health setting. I have a few questions about which route I should go regarding home health:

-a lot of the HH jobs I see advertise “40 hours a week and 8 hours a day”….however from the majority of people I speak to: they are not seeing pts all day. they schedule as they please and get done when they are done- sometimes even at 2 PM.—-> is the standard throughout—- or are some home health workers actually working from 8 AM to 4:30 PM??

-I see a lot of PRN home health jobs with agencies—-I have been told to not do this because it will f*** with your taxes. Is this true? or what are the ways to avoid that?

-is there truly flexibility with home health??

-Are PRN jobs truly as flexible as they seem?? or will I be stuck working mostly the weekends and holidays nobody wants to do??

thank you all in advance—- please share the good, bad, and ugly— I really can’t see myself doing any other setting right now than home health.

I am a PTA in outpatient ortho, but hoping to change to HH—> please tell me why you love Home health. What are the best things about it? How much better is your balance and schedule from previous settings you’ve worked? How long are you doing it- and can you see yourself doing it for a long time?

Thanks!!!

i’m tired of patients asking me “so why did you get into physical therapy/why do you love it? “ and I literally have to stamp on a fake smile and preppy, and my voice when I talk about why I “love physical therapy“ when I am in reality, at my wits end and cannot wait to be done with this profession… or just any people pleasing/fake extraversion job.

All day I have to people please and appease— some of you may say “well just stop caring or don’t do that anymore”. But as someone who spent their entire life wanting people to like them or at least be nice to them, that’s gonna be very hard to change.

For not being in the job where my daily emotional well-being is dependent upon the patient high caseload that I have.

I am tired of lying and saying I love this profession- there’s a small part of me that loves the principle of what I do—- I’m tired of waking up every single day, drained and absolutely dreading the next nine hours of my life- wishing the days away to get closer to the weekend.

hello everyone, I am looking to transition from physical therapy to health info management, or some form of data/tech.

My schedule in a day as a physical therapy clinician is very stressful and chaotic and often overworked and long evening hours.

Does the HIM or health/tech industry have the stressful 9 to 5 corporate schedule? Or is there more flexibility in hours and remote/hybrid work approaches.

Thank you!

hello everyone, I am looking to transition from physical therapy to get my bachelors in health information management. i’m trying to figure out if getting my bachelors is worth it…or if I could just use my experience as a clinician to get into the role of data entry/analyst/billing?

I know of a few former physical therapy clinicians that were able to break into the data and tech world— from their previous experience with utilizing these databases/ platforms to document and review/access patient charts.

i have my associates of applied science in physical therapy as a PTA- anyone else have luck with this?

Also, anyone enjoyed the job and think it’s worth it??

I get Brazilians every 4-6 and have been since September. I still get ingrown it seems and my wax lady i go to said exfoliate. Which i do- yet still get ingrown sand have dark spots- which is why i switched from shaving to waxing…. any tips!

I am now working full time…working like a dog…with a ridiculous commute time…and it is taking a toll on me. My job is very people forward all day nonstop…no real breaks. Then I come home and need to be “on” still. I don’t live at home anymore and I miss my family. I miss being a teen. Hell, I even miss college compared to this adult life. I am so sad. I hate Sunday nights. I hate mondays. I hate my job. Some days I don’t even want to be here because life is a repeating cycle. So expensive everywhere and nothing to look forward to. I tell people how I feel but nothing anyone says can help me.

I got a job and degree in something I am not even sure of half the time. I don’t know how I feel about having kids. Getting our own place. I want to live and exist outside of my 9-5. I spend my 2 day weekend busy because i hate sitting for too long to think about my monotonous and anxiety ridden life.

Looking to go PRN for some time while I figure out life and consider online programs- having a full time OP ortho schedule does not make this easier haha.

How do you guys find having multiple PRN jobs? And how do you schedule this to possible employers- are they usually cool with it- or for you a hard time?

TIA!

Thinking of transitioning to HH. How often would you say you have/do run into uncomfortable or unsafe situations going into patients homes-please share stories? I am a woman in her 20s for context.

Also- what tactics/measures do you all take to keep yourself safe- especially as a woman?

I know most companies allow you to refuse a patient again if they make you uncomfortable or are lewd towards you.

thank you.

In OP ortho right now and the balance is not there, although my clinic prides itself on “work life balance”. Many reasons why, but I won’t go into that right now.

Anyways what settings are yall in that allow for Friday half days OR just better hours so you can get home at a decent time and not just “live for the weekends?”. Thanks .

Hello- New to this sub.

, I am actively trying to quit and get better. And my best friend (who knows this but is addicted himself), continuously texts me bragging about his winnings and sending me online sports bets to do. I have told him I am trying to stop/cut back but he teases me for it. For a few weeks, he was being an asshole to me because I was trying to quit. I am not sure if he is jealous or projecting.

Anyway I relapsed about a week ago after 2.5 clean months. Although I realize it was my own actions that ultimately lead to the relapse—it was a sports bets he had sent me and tempted me to bet on.

If it weren’t for him blowing up my phone with screenshots and brags- It’d be a lot easier to stop. I have the apps deleted.

What do I do? When I talk about trying to quit he makes fun of me and it’s hurtful. But unless I put my foot down with him- he won’t stop.

Thanks in advance.