Upgrade Your Skills by Becoming an EKG Tech
The trained dialysis technician may want to be considered for more responsibility, and possibly a higher wage, by training to become an EKG technician.
For a dialysis tech to enhance their skill set, while cross training to become familiar with the role of the EKG tech, could very well prove to be a smooth transition. Considering that these two careers have similar responsibilities: a willingness and desire to work closely with the assigned medical supervisory personnel and serve as a liaison to the patient; attentiveness to the needs and concerns of the patients and trustworthiness to relay any and all pertinent feedback immediately to the medical professionals: and, one must always endeavor to work as an absolute team player while displaying a professional and courteous demeanor at all times.
With the flexible class schedule offered at Manhattan Institute, the six week EKG technician training course is available for either evening or weekend study; therefore, the highly focused EKG technician could, in a short time, become more in demand in the health filed once this additional course of study is complete. Smaller medical facilities are eager to hire folks who have the skills to help grow and with a larger facility, the responsible and dedicated employee is often looked to first when new opportunities for advancement within the organization become available.
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Assisting the patient and the family with Dialysis - Enrique V
I always thought that a job in the health field would give me a chance for a career and that I would get to be around professionals, and maybe learn how to become one myself. I was bored in high school, I didn’t like the teachers. One day after I just left school and decided not to go back. My mom got really made at me and told me to go stay with my dad in New York. I decided to leave Philly and go to my dad’s. Dad understood me getting bored with school and he helped me get a GED. Dad also told me going to Manhattan Institute and how they could help me find out more about a job working in the health field.
Although I had visited New York many times while visiting my dad, I wasn’t that used to getting around in the city. Manhattan Institute is easy to find since it is very close to Penn Station which is where I come to from my dad’s house in Brooklyn. When I went to the school to check it out the girl at the desk told me that the next class that was about to start was the dialysis technician. I signed up for it because I was ready to get started.
I really enjoyed the classes and learning about how so many people are suffering from kidney problems. After six weeks I had completed my course and was ready to enter the health field to look for a job. I began to see how big the health care industry is. In every major city in the US the hospitals employ lots of people and they also pay pretty good too. I found a job in Philly since I wanted to be close to my mom. And started working at a hospital where I began to make friends with the dialysis patients. I learned at Manhattan Institute that sometimes the patients do not like the treatment because it gives them stress and makes them feels a little sick afterwards. And the family members who come in with the patient are also worried and stressed because of what the loved one is going through. I help everyone by always smiling and being polite, listening carefully to what they are saying or asking me to do, and letting my supervisor know when I think there is a problem. And when the treatment is done, I give the patient I always give the patient a cup of water because they have told me this treatment makes them dehydrated.
I find this job to be a good start in a health career. I get an excellent salary with health benefits and I feel like I am able to reach out to people who need my help.
