Recent content by JustKeepSwimming

Also, congrats on starting medic school soon!

While I agree with you that most fire calls are medical, I think she'll be happy with the basic skills attained as an EMT. And even if she doesn't get to use the fire knowledge and toys as much as she'd like, she'll be a very effective member of the fire team. When we volunteered as kids at the...

Indeed my first. Thanks for the advice!

My sister wants to get into fire! Yeee!!! After years of her teasing me for my fascination with emergencies... Still, I'm excited. She's 19, currently attending U of O and they have nothing even similar to Fire Technology even in their extension. The local CC has EMT & Medic but she's definitely...

All through class, people kept saying, "Apply a traction splint to reduce patient discomfort". Now, having broken myself multiple times, I don't recall having a medical professional pull on something to reduce pain. The closest I've had to a femur fracture is a tib/fib, and when the ER doc...

Obviously, I want to work on the 911 calls. The two 911 contract companies where I'm located are on hiring freezes. I've sent in a letter of interest and resume to both but I'm also applying to the als & bls companies. I'm wondering about applying to strictly transport companies. Will that look...

Hey All! So I passed the NREMT, got my county card, heading to the DMV today with the ADL paperwork... now the job hunt. The current plan is to submit my resume to all the companies that say online they have rolling hiring times. Anyone know of any actual openings? Anything you can...

I volunteer at an ER and a few months ago we had a dialysis patient come in with a burst stent in his arm and the crew that delivered him used a bp cuff as the tourniquet. Doc replaced it with a rubber band tie but the cuff worked and it was a good 2 hr drive from the hospital he was originally at.

I went to 120 and thought for sure I failed. Looking back, I thought I failed my practicals, too. As it turns out, I passed everything first round and I've decided the stress of the tests is to *try* to get you to experience some of what a call is like. I'll reassess this after my first set of...