re: Washington Senator states nurses likely play cards all day and angers a lot of nurses

Alright, jump up and down or whatever you want to do for acknowledgement from me. I don't really care, you don't know what the rest of us are talking about anyway. Cheers.

K.

Only thing up on LSU’s website is from 2017.

Med Class of 2017:

Entering GPA: 3.7
195 Students
733 applicants

PT:
300 applicants, 35 accepted.


Roughly a 25% acceptance rate vs a 10% acceptance rate. Both require a standardized test and experiential hours. Med doesn’t even have a minimum GPA listed. PT minimum is a 3.0.

Come back to me with facts about how Med is more difficult to Get into than PT

He actually believes it.

Wow.

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Roughly a 25% acceptance rate vs a 10% acceptance rate. Both require a standardized test and experiential hours. Med doesn’t even have a minimum GPA listed. PT minimum is a 3.0.

Come back to me with facts about how Med is more difficult to Get into than PT

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The only way you can make the assumption that PT school is more difficult to get into is if the applicant pool is identical or at least reasonably similar. I would wonder what the chance is that average accepted med school student would not be likely to be able to be accepted into PT school? That is a trope I've heard for a long time, but I always suspected it was a non-sequitur, though there is no utility in proving or disproving.

You are using one school.....

The size of the programs are vastly different. PT probably doesn’t have the staff nor funding to support more than 35 students.

I just hope each of y’all at least have good bedside manner, which is extremely important. I won’t even pretend to act like my job is more difficult or harder to get into as its obviously not. But I’ve got close to 20 years in at a fire dept that runs ambulances and make on average 14-15 runs a shift at my particular station (24 hours).

I expect the people I’m with to put their differences aside with nurses and doctors and make patients their main priorities and I don’t write people up much, but someone treating a patient like shite of talking bad about a patient to ER staff will get a write up quickly. We can all be replaced I don’t care how hard your job is. I’ve seen dozens and dozens of nurses, doctors, and surgeons replaced and brought in, and probably close to 100 EMTs and medics, many thinking nobody can replace them. The only goal is what’s best for the patient.

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Come back to me with facts about how Med is more difficult to Get into than PT

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This thread is great. We are now at the point where posters believe it is harder to get into PT school than it is Med School. You guys are laughable

If you want to be a nurse, occupational therapist, physical therapist, med tech etc, then make sure that you are a kind-hearted and loving person. But for some reason, these professions are made out to be this terribly hard, self-sacrificing, terrible field that only a ‘select few’ could possible endure.

Give me a break.

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trauma nurse for over 20 years.

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hey...

I said hey. What is not to understand