Recent content by i_drive_code3

the best job is the one you'd do for free hey there & congrats on your choice- i changed into this field in my early 30's and it has been the most rewarding! there has been more than one time during a transport or trip back to the station and it is an ungodly early hour of the morning and...

a little compassion here's my 2-cents: the obese pt KNOWS they are obese and MOST are truly mortified, horrified, embarrassed as well as frightened due to whatever the reason is that caused us to be called. not all morbidly obese pts are just "lazy" or sit around "stuffing their faces" --...

hey there, i can understand your eagerness to progress from bls to als however (IMO) there is a reason most places require a certain amount of experience prior to becoming a medic. there is a big difference between being a book medic & being a street medic. my questions to you are: why the...

maybe cuz i've been running calls since 07early and i really should be sleeping buttttt for some reason i can't get into your site...wahhhh:wacko: maybe tomorrow?? ~kb

how to make the most of your ride-alongs hi there..i can remember being in your shoes! at least as a student you should get cut some slack:rolleyes: here are some tips: +do a rig checkout with the emt on duty --they are more willing to "let you play" if you know where stuff is and can be...

station life... our station is a small house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, kitchen, living room w/tv (and cable!), a couch, 2 recliners and the front room which is our "office" - station computer for reports and other office equipt. that is where our walk-ins come in and we do blood pressure checks...

we used spider straps for quite awhile and while i prefer them for keeping the pt secure it was difficult sometimes because not all personnel were familiar with them...so now our c-spine bags carry the spider straps but we keep the quick clips on the backboards so depending on the situation we...

ok i'm a little bummed... that only ONE person has responded! come one everyone..help me out! I work full time for Cambria Community Healthcare District and I'm testing for San Luis Ambulance Service - not much to choose from in my county! *kate*

hey everyone, i'm testing for another agency and i hate the part of the interview when they ask for strengths, weakness, and if you have any questions... strengths is not so difficult but i always feel weird trying to come up with a weakness that doesn't really sound like a weakness (or is a...

congrats! that is awesome! we try to do cooperative training with our fire agencies too..in that past month we've been working on mci skills and we broke it into three drills total. one at fire then we had one here for ambulance personnel (i did that one, it was fun!) then we had a big old mci...

stick a needle in my eye... B) back when my kids were little i hated the smell & sound of vomit, i too was a sympathetic puker so when i started going to emt school my husband was like "yeah right!" LOL... i haven't run across anything yet to make me spew though the closest was probably a...

and if i get lost?? we're getting a gps system installed in our units within the next week or so...our administrator says that we should not be using to find addresses in our small town :rolleyes: but they will be great when we head up into the hills and need exact coordinates for the...

emt-p or rn? hiya...i looked at a similar situation right after i got my emt-b...and while my instructor insisted i'd do fine going right into paramedic without street experience i didn't feel comfortable and now having worked for more than 2 years on an als unit i KNOW i made the right...

hey don't glare at me :wacko: silly medic our pillowcases are tyvek(x?) lined and they work wonderfully for those voracious vomiters! kate

from the bsi point of view: i used to work for an agency that shall remain nameless and i was given grief for wearing bsi! the population we served was primarily lower income, drug & alcohol usage pretty rampant, and lots on non-english speaking field workers and yet on 95% of the calls my fto...