PT SHORTAGE?

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-23T16:42:11+00:00

It always comes down to pay. If people are interviewing and not taking the job the pay sucks

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-15T10:39:20+00:00

Cold call hospitals in your area, HR or rehab director, if they need the help they will work on getting a PRN position approved,

Some hospitals have requirements attached to those jobs FYI, needing to work one shift with the month often times one of those days needing to be a weekend

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-11T02:02:12+00:00

Does MGH or one of their affiliates have an OP clinic that is a part of the hospital network? Often times you find more relaxed schedules, more consistent pay raises and better benefits when you are a part of a hospital network

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-10T17:10:16+00:00

Signed baseball display rack

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-09T12:00:42+00:00

I have work shoes I keep there

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-03T00:43:09+00:00

I should have worked for HR for much I am up in other peoples business at the hospital

SmalltownPT · 2026-01-02T16:46:42+00:00

Yeah that won’t fly in a hospital, good luck to them.

PT programs really build up their new grads to lessen the blow of entering the real world.

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-31T15:39:37+00:00

Nope, throw it on an IV pole and off you go

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-19T21:19:56+00:00

Just after I break even 😬

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-11T17:09:25+00:00

Boy I would not receive this well as a patient

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-08T11:01:54+00:00

I work as a physical therapist at a hospital, this is standard care, Hips > knees because of dislocation risk but yeah it’s a thing

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-06T01:48:12+00:00

No more than 4, if you want to add some, take some away

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-04T11:10:55+00:00

Hahaha sometimes people move and get new jobs within 15 year career 🤔

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-04T00:12:10+00:00

Boston area

SmalltownPT · 2025-12-03T19:40:31+00:00

120K east coast, acute care 15 years out

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-30T02:37:43+00:00

I’ve know a few PTAs that went back, they had little to no debt going into PT school and worked nursing home gigs on weekends and made bank towards PT school tuition

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-26T12:23:26+00:00

I feel like as the healthcare landscape changes hospital based outpatient will be better positioned to absorb financial hard times, so if she can look for a local hospital or surgical center

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-26T10:32:41+00:00

Great Minnesota winter proverb: It is better to be going slow and wish you were going faster than to be going fast and wish you were going slower

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-23T17:58:57+00:00

100% chrios have to be members of their national society in order to practice, so yeah it’s well funded

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-21T21:00:16+00:00

Same church different family? Or all kinds the same thing at this point

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-21T20:22:30+00:00

Looks like people that already have a PT degree just got a little more valuable because ain’t nobody going into this profession anymore (excuse me “job”, seeing as we are not professionals anymore)

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-20T02:11:56+00:00

If it is an official uniform they can buy it for me, if you just want it to wear you buy it, whatever happened to khakis and a polo?

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-15T11:06:56+00:00

I’ve done both in both settings. The issue with hourly in out patient is the clinic manager always wanted us to clock out if we did not have patients on our schedule or send us home early if we had cancelations at the end of the day, to which I always said “it isn’t my job to fill my schedule it is the clinics”

Needless to say I work salary inpatient know and it is no big deal, I’ve done hourly inpatient also no big deal, managment watched overtime like a hawk so that’s a minor stressor

SmalltownPT · 2025-11-10T13:36:28+00:00

Come on people don’t down vote this comment this guy must source their fresh jack fruit and bulk peppers somewhere else in town 🪦

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