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In NY it is a 4-6 week wait to see if you passed and there is no way to check unless you pay extra to do onsite testing so our situation sucks pretty bad lol Congratulations rock out !

i work for a realy busy IFT company we do a minimum of 30 discharges out of the hospital usually to nursing homes, we have about 50 dialysis runs and then unkown amount of dr visits or other specail transports, and then there is always the "emergency" for the fdgb(fall down go boom). at our...

at my paid job i only work out of nursing homes i.e. i work with a lot elderly pts and most of them have floeys its one thin you always look for. i have done the same thing and i felt terriable but i felt even worse when i watched a psych pt rip out his own floey...... i was so glad i was NOT...

Wow a 72 with the same partner I probally wOuld have killed them lol as much as I love my partners I don't think I could go that long with no calls lol on my 24 I switch out partners so it's not too bad I kinda feel bad for my partner on my second 12 because I can get pretty cranky with him.

Well I say good Luck on your first day of class usually the first week oh Emt class is CPR .... At least in ny. I have been CPR certified since I was 15 so I have done the class many times and believe me I always find it interesting to what things I remember and how they change the class from...

i am currently on a 24 that started at 7pm it is now 1:18 am. so far i have had no calls.... not that i mind. now i cant take a nap and running out of things to do on facebook lol. anyone have anything interesting to chat about? please save my sanity!

personally i deal with way to much. i work and volenteer with both my agencies being als. the als providers that think they are higher then GOD and think that i as a BLS provider am on scene to carry there stuff and be their goffer...... there is an easy way to deal with that. after the call...

it all depends on how ,much you got out of you emt b program i have seen it both ways. people go right into medic school and crash and burn and others that did just fine. i persoally think it is good to get some time working as a basic becuase no matter how many rotations you do there are...

Thanks always good to have someone looking out

Sorry I will keep it in mind thanks

when I sat advance I mean there is no way to become and officer. There are meetings but when anything is brought up about EMS issues or sugesstions it is pushed to the side. This is were my frustrations come from. I ahve alot of passion for what I do and to be honest it sucks that I cant go...

This is for all the people who are in volenteer fire departments. I am an EMT in NY and I wanted to put this up to see what everyone else thinks. Maybe to prove that Im not carzy.lol Within my volenteer organization we do a minimum of 95% of EMS calls, other 5% being fire and maybe out of...

If there is one thing that will get you in trouble one day is assuming that the dispatcher is correct. I am not a nremt but I am well trained and have a bot of experienced as a nys Emt. On more than one occasion I showed up to an injuries of a fall and got there and there was CPR in progress...

even though there are new cpr guidlines doesnt mean that there is nothing that he can carry with them, i was out at lunch and had to deliver a baby in the feild.... if there is any equiptment that you should always carry in your person vehicle its gloves... LOTS OF GLOVES

i understand i compelety understand why you might be uncomfertable not taking to pt's in the ambulance at once but i have to agree with everyone else. there is othing wrong with taking two pts to the hospital. i also work for a private company and understand were when you have a problem with...