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What are some Fundamentals of medicine?

What are some challenges in you face or has faced working in a medical/ hospital setting. #healthcare #medical #hospital-and-health-care #medicine

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Challenges :
1. Disciplined
2. Work even when exhausted
3. Keep mind always thinking
4. Keep updated with latest
5. Be extra patience
6. Lots of documentation
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As a Medical Technologist/ Clinical Laboratory Scientist, basically the person running tests in the lab, the challenges faced in a hospital setting are as follows:
1. Hospitals are "Stat" facilities. Which means you are expected to work quickly, without errors in situations in which both of those things could be a matter of life and death. It is often very stressful.
2. Work schedules - hospitals employees cover 24 hours/ 7 days a week/ 365 days a year. Healthcare workers are usually required to rotate weekends, holidays and sometimes shifts. This is both a pro and a con as you can look for shifts that fit your lifestyle ex: days, nights, 7 on/7off
3. Ever changing processes. It's Medicine, not Magic. Research is constantly being done and "Best Practice" processes are constantly being updated. You are expected to keep up with these changes. In the lab, those changes include technological changes in instrumentation and computer software.
Med Techs/ also work in medical offices, reference labs and sometimes industry so if hospital life is not for you there are still opportunities in the medical field that may still allow you to pursue a medical career.

Crystal recommends the following next steps:

Healthcare includes a wide variety of different careers. Research, ask questions, find the right path for you.
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