Recent content by CowboyMedic

There is a definitive need for referring pts to other facilities and yes it does generally fall on the ED. For illness prevention and health maintenance you are right to chalk that up to poor education. But who is going to pay for that? When I was putting a pulse oximeter on a pt and explaining...

I read about half way through this and skipped to the last three pages so excuse me if this has already been stated/answered. the CORE of the argument is that it would be beneficial for the EMS community to staff RNs on their rigs. Yes? But the benefits stated is that the RNs could treat and...

Suck the fun out of things by looking at them literally do you? Yes you do.:glare: It is the context. FYI all the BABY DOCs around here wear baby blue scrubs hence baby doc. they are color coded! - policy so nobody reports to them or gives them patient care and walks off. Apparently it is also...

I wish that was true. I call med students Baby Docs. I think it suits them and smacks them off their high horse once in awhile especially when they walk in and ask me to give a report a second time cause they werent included in it. Hell you refer to me as a paramedic fetus and I would...

I recall Canada, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, and a few more IGRA state divisions. Yeah they did all the regular events and some were pretty good but some were first timers so they dragged the rodeo out. The organization the first day was horrid the second day they seemed to have worked...

Possible Non-English Speaking Pt was uncooperative until told to "stop pulling on his folley or his pecker was going to fall off". Pt now fully cooperative and possible English speaking.

Tuesday I refilled our soap dispenser up with a bunch of expired packages of lubricating jelly. Needless to say we were also out of papertowels and real soap at the station. The later was hindsight that made it extra great when Bubba Gump our EMT Extraordinaire used it and 20 minutes later...

It says on their website in certain portions of unincorporated Tarrant County. I have no idea what that means so Im going to cop out and just point to the patch on my shoulder that says Basic and shake my head. :ph34r: I knew they did Johnson County. Congrats! :beerchug:

I work for Care First EMS and I can tell you we are hiring. Mostly transports and stand-by at events.

So this weekend I got stuck working stand by for transport for a rodeo. I thought it was the Mexican rodeo cause we usually do the Mexican rodeo but dispatch told me it wasn't and refused to tell me what rodeo it was. I couldn't think of anything beside the regular rodeo til I got there. Turns...

HAHAHA.. God they learn at an early age

whats the D-stick say? And maybe he is just air lifting himself to safety!:D

Oh I know. Its all a joke. State cert is just a money thing just like everything else that involves the state and EMS. To get state cert you do the same thing to get national cert but it cost more. And people wonder why their ambulance bill is so high. LOL

Linuss that is straight from the Texas Department of State Health Services website word for word. If you dont like it you can take it up with them. Follow the link its the first paragraph after all the red bullets. I was just using the quote to show that a FR w/ CPR & AED certs is not classified...

For the record this is how Texas defines scope of practice: Texas does not have a rigid scope of practice for EMS personnel defined in rule or law as some other states do. That’s because Texas Medical Board rules allow physician-medical directors to delegate medical tasks to EMS personnel as...