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Listen to other people's patches. Be as short as you can. The hospital needs to know what room they need to be placed in and if they need anyone special like a trauma surgeon. Example- this is sam on medic 5. we're enroute to your facility non emergent with a 71 7-1 year old female with...

Hand the 12 lead to your partner first

I work in colorado and basics are treated very well. We have a skill set so we use it. Our protocols are very aggressive compared to most places. Most calls are bls so our medics appreciate us because they can go an entire shift just driving us around.

Just from the info you gave I would have done the same thing. First so many places have said that the pt was more altered then normal. Usually it's not true. Atleast in my experience. The wonderful thing about dementia is that they aren't always the same. Let's just say it is this time. It's...

I did one clinical on an ambulance and one ED rotation. This was required. If I was you I would see if you can sign up for more shifts than that. Emt class teaches you the very basics. I felt like I didn't really learn to be an emt until I was working. The more exposure you can get the better.

We do have a team of 5 medical directors. That helps with testing. Not everyone tests with the same medical director.

I wouldn't call it tiny but it's not the biggest. We Only run 100,000 calls a year.

We did a practical with our medical directors to be able to be on the streets. All the written test were given to us by the company.

We had to test with our medical directors. We often are giving room reports to our medical directors. Ours are pretty awesome and will support you.

I was just trying to describe the academy not cry about it. I actually like the company I work for. It's just tough. From all the information I'm getting from other people it seems like I'll have an easy time transferring to another company.

Where I'm at you always get two medics too. Can emt's attend on a call if someone has an iv? Half the time I'm just getting one enroute.

I thought everyone could do a d-stick. In my opinion every emt should be able to do that. How many diabetic problems do we run on? It just makes sense. IV's are a much needed skill for emt's to have to. Most patients get an iv and blood draw.

I know where I'm at emt's can do IV's, io's, and supraglottic airways. With your iv cert you can give ns, lr, d50, iv narcan. You can also push every medication your medic tells you to From ketamine to epi. You also do blood draws.

I just want to know how other training academies are run. What kind of training do they do? How intense are these programs? I was trying to say that my academy is very intense. I wanted to know how they compare. I understand this is not a great way to be treated But it is what it is.

We run 10-18 calls in a 12 hour shift. We either run double medic rigs or one emt one medic. Every rig is required to be als.