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I took my NREMT-P today. Im fairly certain I failed. It cut me off early to mid 70s. I was confused by what I remember to be a lot of questions. They seemed really hard and I had no idea how to answer. There were some I knew. But I found most to be very difficult. It asked me a lot of...

I know what a normal ambulance looks like. The ambulance at this station is not standard. It's literally a fire truck. It doesn't even fit under some of the ER entrances. But yeah, ha, I'm definitely off on the weight I'm sure. Anyhow, the shift went really well! My medic told me I did...

Seeing trauma in person is a lot different than looking at pictures in a book or seeing it from the corner of a room in the ER during clinicals. No, I haven't passed out or thrown up before, but it's something that I think anyone would think about when being thrown into something like this. I...

Thats what I was thinking. But EMT jobs here really aren't very easy to come by. I really want to get experience. I just think it's weird Im being thrown into it so quickly. It's just going to be me and the medic...so if I freeze up or can't drive then we're screwed.

I just got a job as an EMT. My first shift is tomorrow and I'm ridiculously nervous! They aren't really doing any sort of training with me so I feel like Im being thrown to the wolves. I'm nervous about driving the truck especially. I haven't had any experience with a vehicle this big...