Recent content by MedicJon88

I hear ya. It was a foot in the door with the basics back when multi-year hiring freeze was a thing. Obviously not a problem with Paramedics now- we get to pick where we work and dictate our schedules more or less.

It's only going to get worse friends. With more ER and ICUs poaching paramedics to help with patients and flight services losing clinicians left and right- no one in their right mind is going to work ground base IFT/back up 911 for well below living wages. It was bad back in the early 2000s when...

I was a federal subcontractor at Minot Airforce base. It was an unusual posting because the base was technically only BLS as the hospital was no longer and it was just a clinic for base personnel and also attached was a VA clinic. So technically you are the only ACLS provider on base besides the...

Late to the party, but the Airforce 4Ns I work with as a contractor were all EMT-B's to start with, you advance most of them have ICU training and can cross to LVN's. Some of them work alongside officer's/RNs in military installations. One coveted position is IDMT, still a 4N with a specialty...

Sounds comparable to what I had to go through with my current program minus the cadaver lab. We did everything in the Simlab. We also had to do pericardiocentesis and A-line insertion. We don't do Neonate/Hirob here which puts me at a disadvantage.

Mercy's new Bell525 looks LEGIT. Makes the AW109/119 look cramped.

Hi all, I currently fly for an AirMethods partnership program that is transitioning to full ownership with PHI. No longer be private 3rd company employees and having to work for PHI. PHI's values and the fact that the program is going rotor only doesn't mesh with me completely. I found very few...

I'm talking SLA right now they are hiring again in January but is willing to consider hiring experience medic out of cycle- I just don't know if I'm willing to consider moving back to California's EMS climate. I've spent the last 2 years out in ND with awesome pay and even more awesome scope of...

Hey everyone, I know this an old thread, but I'm considering completing the application process with SLA, but I don't want to waste my time without knowing their pay scale. I'm coming from a high needs area, and I'm aware that pay is going to be impacted working as a single function paramedic...

Just got an email from my Training Coordinator from AHA. New model of learning was released yesterday by AHA for Prehospital providers. Now there is an online portion + skills time with one of the CPR instructors. scenarios modeled after real field experiences. Take a look from AHA...

hey, so i'm trying to break the strips down to analyse it like I would at my work. using the 12 lead. Slightly Irregular in Rate PR- un-measureable QRS looks like its at .12 Rate is in the 50s looks like the P waves are not correlated with the QRS my interpretation 3rd degree heart...

passed at 69 questions. Thought I failed for sure. It was heavy on the MCI-Incident command questions. Then at the end it was giving me impossible diagnostic questions- I was literally sitting at my computer console going WTF head VS DESK/Keyboard...:unsure: - and of course I took it Friday...

Hey thanks for the info. I know how sparsely populated ND is.. and it is definitely a concern of mine. South bay, where I live in LA have more people than the entire state of ND... however, I did train as a paramedic almost 200 miles away in Ridgecrest, CA the gateway to Death Valley, North...

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We have Code Blue and Rapid Response Teams for patients already admitted into the hospital. ED-Rapid Response Teams for everyone else on hospital grounds, visitors, employees, etc.. It is no longer acceptable to wait for EMS to respond outside hospital grounds while the hospital personnel just...