Recent content by EXPERTrookie209

Your a little late on this thread, but... Most companies consider 80% passing. Maybe even less depending on how desperate they are for employees.

Will do, thanks. Any tips for the interview or hiring process? I was told panel interview, skills test (he said trauma assessment?), and written test and some sort of physical test I'm guessing (they said bring workout clothes).

Damn that's exactly what I don't want to be doing. Do you see them working bls ever? I feel like its a waste of my time lol I didn't go to emt school to drive a minivan around. Do you know the pay?

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I have an interview for the patients plus mental health emt position on Monday an I was wondering if you know anything about that? My biggest fear is that I'm going to be by myself on some van running around 5150s all day. Or is that position on one of the...

just a heads up, you dont use many skills as an IFT emt, and as for the written, like someone said earlier its a joke. know your GCS categories and what placentia previa means. those are about the only things i had trouble with, other than that its easier than the first test in an EMT class i...

Pt denied any pain, whether it be in any extremities, abd, back, neck, etc... She was totally alert and oriented. I did a visual physical exam if you will, she was wearing a tank top and didn't notice any seat belt or steering wheel marks on her chest. I didn't get to do much of anything, fire...

Thanks for the replies everyone, you've all been a big help. I guess the whole theory "start simple" rings true here.

Honestly that was my first thought, but I didn't want to mention a c/c of SOB to AMR and have them freak out on me for not applying high flow o2...

So what would have been a more appropriate treatment? 6lpm via NC? Sorry as you can tell I don't have much scene experience, and all the school and textbooks ever do is drill 15lpm via NRB for every pt into your head.

My partner and I are en route to an ER discharge (I work for an IFT company) and we come upon a wreck where a woman was cut off and swerved to avoid the other vehicle and ends up running up the curb and over a streetlight. According to the lady that lived at the house that had the car in the...

No ALS in Modesto, only out in Hughson.

73 after about an hour, IIRC. I left the building all pissed off, thinking I didn't pass. But to my surprise, 2 days later it said I passed!

I don't blame you one bit lol. I don't think anyone goes through school to work as an IFT EMT for the rest of their career. I'm between a rock in a hard place. I work for the second largest provider in my area (AMR being the first) which happens to be an IFT company, besides our one ALS station...

Same here. Some people worship the ground AMR walks on, others could care less if they packed up and left. AMR recently lost their 911 contracts in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, apparently those were their largest money making contracts in the nation. There is two other contracts up for...

I'd put apps out for other companies in the area as well, word in the street is that AMR isn't doing to hot out here...