Recent content by brassguy

Hey everyone, I have not been here for quite a while. Hope everbody is well! I was kind of wondering if anyone has gone from EMT-B to RN (ADN or BSN)????? I am going back to school in the fall for pre-req's and gen eds for the local community college nursing program. I was wondering what the...

I work for a private company, we usually call it an "insurance taxi"

The company I work for transports a lot of Dialysis pt's. One of these pt's lives in a house where there are 7-9 stairs. Every day whichever crew is assigned to her has to bring in the stairchair, strap her in, bring her down the stairs(she is about 275 lbs.) t/f her to cot and then put her in...

I'm Eric and I work at a ambulance company in Schaumburg IL. We mainly do interfacility transports, hosp. room to nursing home,vice versa. But we have contracts with MANY nursing homes in the area. So we do do some ER calls. For instance, my partner and I were called to a nursing home last...

Update: It was an interesting experience! There were a LOT of minor drunks!!! We had a 15 y/o girl who blew a .19 and an 18 y/o girl who blew a .28(who went to the ED for "seizures" I put that in quotation marks because she was talking to the medics while "seizing"). The only real medical...

My first call on my own (me and a partner) was just an interfacility transport. Later that day, we were called to a nursing home to take a 83 y/o male with an hx of stroke, left arm paraylsis to the ED for a possible blood clot in the arm. We got there and his left arm was maybe 3 or 4 times the...

For the love of god...I don't want to start an argument, but I have to say something!!! Dogs are NEVER EVER born "aggressive" it is the owners who make dogs aggressive. Pit bulls are really very sweet dogs, who are very loyal to their owners! All you ever hear of are pit bull attacks on the news...

sense of humor-true! Also realizing that patients are people who have a life, family and don't want to be in that situation at that time, really listening to patients, basically treating them like humans! There are a few EMT's and paramedics where I work who have forgotten this!

Tonight was my first night by myself and a partner, with NO AM/FM radio!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sad: Anyway, I am doing my first stand-by at a concert tomorrow night. Just wondering what to expect! I think it's going to be Toby Keith but I could be wrong. If anyone can give me some pointers that would be...

We have about 8 or 9 McCoy Miller Type II (private ambulance company) and 3 or 4 Type I. Would upload pic's but I dont have a digital camera(I love my 35mm)!!!! :blush:

Had my first ride along today! First time in an ambulance as an EMT-B!!!! It was pretty great!!!! Pretty much the same dialysis patients almost every day. Not much pay, pretty nice ambulances, not many interventions just transport. But everyone has to start somewhere!!! The company I work for...

Oh my god!!!! I really really really really want to do this!!!!!!!!

Has anyone heard of this movie coming out in October??? Great, another movie that sheds "an interesting" light on our profession. R-rated "comedy" about two rival ambulance companies (with acromyms such as B.A.L.S. and D.I.C). http://www.skidmarksthemovie.com The website has a clip that is...

I wouldn't dream of hitting on a straight man! Constantly joking with a partner about it would be annoying to anyone but so is a lifetime of "so where's your wife" or playing the "switch the pro-noun game"(switching he for she). I just keep my mouth shut until someone asks me, yea I am proud but...

What exactly do you mean by "impose homosexuality on me"?? Eric