Recent content by kbrodie694

Now I know why it is the largest "fired" district they can't find their way around...lol

Good luck, I know how hard it is to go straight out as an EMT-I and not have field expreince as a Basic I had my basic less than a year before going to I and I didn't even want to at the time. In Maine you have to have X number of people to offer the the pre-test and I was there as a body...

You have been on a call and had to ask multiple fire, police, and bystanders where is the patient and couldn't get a good answer from anyone but they all had to be there for the fender bender!

Or you think, thank God this isn't my area and I'm not on call if anything does happen!

fire training I started as a firefighter and thought those guys with the bandaides were nuts for wanting to get near sick, bleeding people like that. That was 19 years ago, when I was 16 years old. After that I went to school for law enfocment graduated and got a volunteer postion on an...

study I found that for me the best thing to do is step away for a while and then go back and do some scenerio based training. But the biggest thing to remember on these tests is not to over think the question if you have gone through your class and did well then you can pass the test. Use the...

seems like those people are the ones who always make mistakes and don't learn from them so you try and teach them to step back and listen to others around them, sometimes it is a matter of letting them get chewed on by the chief after a screw up!

basic test around 110 ish passed

Here in Maine we have to call for almost everything and if we are lucky the ER doc knows our protocols and gives us the orders we want. Other wise we are SOL

Heard a flight medic tell my two medics they should have cardioverted the pt before trying drugs on them as he reached over and pushed the "shock" button without pushing the "sync" button and told the pt . "This is gonna suck!" Would have sucked less with the monitor synced to with the pt.

Hello I am an EMT Basic currently used to be Intermediate for about 13 years than got a little burnt out and didn't renew my certification so starting over. I want to go to Medic as quickly as I can. I have a loving wife and four kids from age 6 to 13 months.