Episode 28
Jan 22, 2016
Working in a hospital as a massage therapist is a different world. It’s not for everybody but for those who find it rewarding, it can be some of the most significant work of our careers. But how do you get started? Who do you talk to? How do you get paid? And how do you position yourself as a health care provider and work alongside nurses and physicians?
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EPISODE 28
Working in a hospital as a massage therapist is a different world. It’s not for everybody but for those who find it rewarding, it can be some of the most significant work of our careers. But how do you get started? Who do you talk to? How do you get paid? And how do you position yourself as a health care provider and work alongside nurses and physicians?
We discuss all this and more with our guest, Lauren Cates from Healwell. In addition to her duties providing and supervising massage for medically complicated, oncology and end of life patients at numerous hospitals in the Washington, DC area, Lauren is the Clinical Supervisor of the Integrative Health Program at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine.