Life as a Personal Support Worker

So I have begun my journey as a PSW, still taking a class for the certificate but have been hired by a company to do things that I have yet to be trained in class to do. Hope they plan on showing me a few things otherwise I'm gonna be that menace coming to your house to perform pericare without a clue on how to do it. Wonder when they will put a college of PSW's together so the profession can be regulated...I realized that PSW's do a broad range of stuff so it is hard to pin down a specific list of tasks although it can't be impossible...I mean, what do nurses not WANT to do...and there you go, you have tasks that are specific to a PSW. I mean, my friend calls herself a poop connosiuer, not exactly the full aspect of what she does but when she is taking stool samples and cleaning ostomy bags, its pretty much a good discription. Hospitals are finally hiring PSW's full time to do the jobs that nurses claim they have no time for. So does that mean that if PSW's were not around the nurses weren't doing their jobs correctly?? hmm food for thought.

In a recent conversation with my cousin she said that she didn't want to become a PSW because she would be a 'nurse's bitch'. Not a very flattering comment at all when you think about the thousands of PSW's out there making not a bad dollar from picking up the slack that nurses don't find time for. She continued to make a comment about my temporary choice of being a PSW. "Do you really want to work under the nurses?" Well my retort was simply this: You will always have a supervisor and you only answer to that supervisor it doesn't matter what kind of job you have. I mean, nurses answer to their supervisor sometimes a doctor and yes those with a superiority complex will always be assholes no matter where they are...no matter what profession. I mean I once worked for Tim Hortons and my supervisor thought her shit didn't stink just because she was in a position of power over those around her. Power trips happen anywhere.

My ultimate goal is to become a Registered Practical Nurse, not even close to the kind of profession I fancied for myself while growing up, but priorities change and health care pays.
An RPN is a nurse, although not the same as a Registered Nurse (RN) I can't imagine going to school for four years at university to come out with a degree in nursing. Quite frankly I don't have the time, not many parents do. So the obvious choice is RPN. Shorter schooling period, with a darn good paycheque at the end of it all...did I mention that it's half the cost if not cheaper than that even?

Anyway. I lost the point of my rant somewhere in the body of my blog. oh well.