Recent content by agregularguy

Never fully looked into it due to already having a B.S., but I believe they used to offer to pay for medic school, but were not at the time I was there. Not 100% on that.

My last agency did. 5% for associates, 10% for Bachelor's. Kinda spoiled while I was there-- I moved (and EMS is now my part-time gig) so pay looks a LOT lower now!

Yep, bachelor's in EMS Management and Criminal Justice. Was working EMS while obtaining the degree. Would love to go back and get my masters, but I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon.

Before I left my last agency a few months ago, we had just enable a new bit of software that allowed us to see the final hospital discharge diagnosis on our patients. I loved that! We also had a binder on the wall inside the entrance to the ER that had all the STEMI cases, showed a photo of the...

Been a week or two since I've had time to check on this site. Looking forward to reading all the threads I missed while I was gone!

Worked in the capital region area of NY, as well as eastern MA. Both have many Fire based EMS regions. Anyone who knows me knows my thoughts on fire-based EMS, needless to say though I won't be recommending any of those. In NY, Colonie EMS is a good spot to be (if you have to be in NY/MA, SC...

Grabbed a 36 starting yesterday up at one of our slower stations. So far done 6 calls in 28ish hours. Was able to sleep from mid-8am without any calls. Very pleasantly surprised so far as I try and gobble up all the holiday pay I can.

We use RACE scores in conjunction with the Cincinnati stroke scale. Most of our trucks have tear off pads/check sheets in most of the trucks with the qualifiers on them. I also have a RACE score app on my phone. Anyone with a RACE of 5 or greater has to go to one of the two of the main downtown...

Springfield College in western ma also has an EMS Management program, in which you get your medic during the program.

Had only 1.5 calls today on my 12 hour shift. Fewest I've had since getting here! Was not expecting that considering we were level 0 for both transport trucks and QRVs for several hours on Friday. Was figuring it would be like that all weekend.

Car v house. Few skin tears, no complaints of pain or any other traumatic injuries. Refused to go with us to hospital

Been meaning to upload these for a while now. This is one of our 5 new trucks. Apparently I suck at embedding photos, so hopefully one of these links work. https://imgur.com/a/WHGqn

Shields are great, but put in an apex trigger first. I hate the stock trigger on the shield

I pretty regularly carry a Glock 19. Generally most of my wardrobe is flannels/button down shirts that makes concealing it super easy, both at 4 oclock and appendix carry. Sometimes I can get away with it in a light tshirt, depending on the shirt. If not, I'll carry my shield.

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