Recent content by Traumjunk

Be patient as Metro does a hiring about once a month.

There are two Ambulance companies in the Orlando area. Rural/Metro Ambulance and American Ambulance will hire you without your fire. All you need is your Florida cert and CPR card. I don't know American's website but Rural Metro is www.ruralmetro.com American is purely IFT while Rural Metro...

Chewy, I too am a Florida FM, and just got my NREMT-P and received my Colorado PM license. It was all just a matter of filling out paperwork for me.

Railroad tracks work pretty good also...LOL:rofl:

I worked for RMA in the Orlando area for 5 years. The parent company is decent, but they have had so much turnover in management, I'm not sure. When I was there, the GM was awesome and we had so much fun at work, that you wanted to be there. But with change comes.... well you know. I still...

I went through the same thing you are going thru the past few months. I called NREMT and they said as long as I had 40 hours of classroom CEU's, they just need the proof of it. Once I sent them all my certified hours, they accepted it and allowed me to test. Let me know if I can help you with...

In Orlando the average is 30 min for the non critical, even though I have seen codes worked in the hallway due to no beds available.

We use the NTG, Lasix, and CPAP. If too critical, then straight to RSI

Listen...Listen...Listen to your preceptors. They will make or break you!!!

And this is why I'm leaving the state of Florida. I could care less about putting the wet stuff on the red stuff. Any monkey can do that...LOL:rofl:

If you live in extreme east orlando, the cocoa campus off clearlake in cocoa would be about the same to the valencia east campus, minus the traffic

Usually the NREMT website has all the dates and testing agencies.

Medic test stopped at 88 and passed. Some off the wall questions, that's for sure.

I went to Brevard Community College in 98. Tough program back then, where they made you learn or you fail. Unfortunately, a lot of programs are passing people just to raise the numbers.

I would recommend getting your NREMT, you never know when you may decide to relocate and be like me testing 15 years out of school...LOL