Recent content by rob85635

In public safety there are two kinds of people, those who have back problems and if you are around long enough those who will.

Maybe it was intentional to see if you are paying attention to detail :) Perhaps another answer Blah Blah was right?

welcome aboard... I think I may have driven through San Antonio once when I was a kid.

Has anyone used the Rite in the Rain EMS notepad? The reason I ask is I have a question about how hard it is to remove the sheets of paper. I am a Dispatcher and also a Patrol Volunteer with our local police department. My primary duties are police patrol related but I can also respond to EMS...

≈ $1700. Pricey.

I documented 58 hours ride time and was short contacts. White cloud was my nickname and "Hey, come ride anytime." was usually what they said after every shift. Another guy in my class got 9 contacts in one day when one station was covering EMS for another station that was training. That...

Near 74ish maybe? Passed

Found out today I passed, that was a bit shocking. I really was thinking I had bombed it, ... perhaps since I have never taken an "adaptive" test I was just not used to it. Still, there were a few odd things in the test. Rob

I had the option of taking my NREMT test before 2012 but chose to take it after for a few reasons. My instructor told us that if we took the test after Jan 1 we would get the "new" test. I am not sure what "new" really means hence this thread. I was figuring the changes would be slight and...

Congrats!

What do you mean "good question..."? That is a horrible question to ask on a NREMT test when I have no idea of the answer. :D

Actually there were three questions about helicopter operations. In addition to what I mentioned there was a question asking about what part of the helicopter to not approach from answers being from the front, from the back from the top rotor and from the rear rotor. Obviously the rear rotor...

The one question that I know we never covered was about the landing of helicopters. In particular it asked the maximum ground slope that was safe to land on with the answers being 10, 15, 20, 25 degrees. We never covered that, I checked my book and even did some online research and have yet...

I don't know yet. They said sometime perhaps in the afternoon on monday to check. Does anyone know of a place where people can post questions about what they saw on the test and discuss them? I cannot see why that would be a problem, especially since the NREMT website says you will not...

Well, the sign up rules say no posting of questions but I don't know to what extent that applies. I would think you could ask questions about stuff to get answers but I am new, so no idea here. Someone might chime in and clarify for us. I was an EMT for 6 years starting in about 1990. It...