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Well I will be volunteering at a health clinic for low income families funded by my church. When I contacted the lady in charge she sounded more excited about my expired pharmacy tech cert than my EMT...I'd rather work on the clinical side but there's really not that much I can do help there I...

I am already currently taking an Anatomy and Physiology class. I'm actually almost done with what would be the first quarter of the Paramedic coursework. I plan on taking the English course required after the summer. I understand your suggestion to take basic classes but I kinda want to take...

So I'm at the tail end of my EMT-B course and I fully intend to go to Paramedic school which won't be offered until January. I figure I might as well try and get through some certifications to try and widen my scope of practice and make things easier in the long run. However, I'm not quite...

I'm at the tail end of my EMT-B course and my certification exam is next month. Like any good class, I've been assigned an essay to do on topics in EMS. It has to be 5-7 pages long, APA format, all that nonsense. The only thing I'm having difficulty with is the topic I want to choose...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I think I'm just going to volunteer with a squad and run with them until I can apply for the paramedic program. I'd like to get my RN afterwards, but I'm not sure if I should just get an associates or if employers are looking more at bachelors degree RNs now...

*waits* Unfortunately the Virginia Office of EMS hasn't posted any classes for EMT-I between May and December. If something pops up around then and I'm eligible for it, I'll take a shot at it, but since I would start classes for the paramedic degree in January I would just go straight for...

Bet with the lack of snow-ready ambulances that they probably use dogsleds instead. Wonder what kind of certification you would need to run on an Emergency Medical Dogsled...

The charcoal we got to look at in class was expired so I wasn't allowed...:sad: We're still supposed to learn about activated charcoal since the book and exam still have it in there, but before I think we had to contact the MD in order to actually administer it. I don't think it's...

Where did all these pages come from? Anyway, the only reason I was considering EMT-I was simply because I wanted to get into ALS sooner and be more familiar with it by the time I sit for the Paramedic exam. I've heard that going from EMT-B to Paramedic is extremely difficult. I guess that...

DMAT looks interesting, but it also looks like it'd be something you would do if you had freetime. As fun as DMAT sounds (or not) if you're like many people you probably are either working full-time, going to school full-time or some sort of mixture of both. In addition, it's not really a paid...

I agree with you on the reasons. However, I think it's more of a speed and time issue in this case, since, at least with the PASG here, medics took so long trying to figure out how to get the pants on the patient that by the time they figured it out, they could've been in the ED. Also, this is...

*sigh* Still not motivated...although I am extremely distracted by the pair of talking, levitating chesticles.

Ah, that makes sense. Our region doesn't have PASGs for similar reasons. No one used them much and when they did, no one had a clue how to use them since they didn't do much training on them. They're working on getting those back though, apparently they work very well for those pesky pelvic...

We were going through general pharmacology in my EMT-B class today and my instructor informed us that the department is getting rid of activated charcoal. Is this something going on nationwide? I mean, I understand it's gross, but does anyone know why this is happening for any reason other...

51k isn't worth the perpetual murder attempts that the paramedic would probably experience there. It's like death and malicious wounding is a side effect of Detroit. I'll stay here thank you very much.