Recent content by jmc519

I'll add my $.02, though I'm heavily debating doing so at this point. I'm on a paid-on-call fire department, that has no medical whatsoever. The EMS agency in our area is a separate entity. For certain calls (MVA with injury, or a PIA), we're automatically dispatched to the scene. Otherwise...

I responded to a driver needed call from our local ambulance service a couple months ago, to a bar that's just a couple blocks from my house. The medic on the call was the instructor of my EMT-B class, which I was still in at that time. He had the patient, who was obviously ETOH, sitting on the...

My instructors were some of the best. We had our main instructor, who has been in EMS for over 20 years, and still going. Right at the beginning, they all came in and explained who they were, where they had worked, where they currently work, gave phone numbers (including the administrators) so...

A couple of the nurses I worked with in the ER clinicals seemed begrudged to be stuck with a lowly EMT student, but most of them were really cool about it. I shouldn't have, but I sort of picked and chose who I was the most helpful to. If someone said "Hey... you want to help me splint this...

Definitely kickin it up here toward the tip of the mitten. Only regret? Snow in mid-April.

My name is Jen, and I'm from a po-dunk town in Northern Michigan. I attended my class from October til this past March, passed my National Registry and am currently waiting on my license paperwork from the state (although it's already on their website) for EMT-B. I've been on a local fire...

We did 5 clinicals, 12 hours each, 3 with EMS and 2 in the ER. All of my clinicals were fairly normal (we're a small town in Northern Michigan)... but we had one good snowmobile accident, and I responded with my fire department. One of the paramedics dragged me on board for extra hands... and...

EMT-B at 70 questions, and passed - first shot.