Recent content by vpemti

yes i do agree with you there that als wouldnt have changed much, if the patient would have been going home on hospice boom done and done no questions asked. but als would be able to detect that the patients cardiac situation is going wrong before a bls unit could, yet still the care result...

So I have been an EMT for about a year now and I arrived on this call today and its been bugging me so what I'm looking for is input any of you out there could give and if you've experienced something like this before. Got the call (BLS), This was from the ER to a med surg unit in a hospital...

awesome, thank you for the info!

yes, i was told to call back monday. so i figured id get all the help i can... ah well.

yes!! i know its not a ff posistion i was just wondering if they would throw anything similar at me since its not for a privatized ambulance company.

a fire fighter? nothing in that did. but since it is under the fire department i just wanted to know if anyone else had taken it, what it was like and if it was a normal emt test, or more in depth thats all. and by medic engine i ment an ambulance. i did not mean a fire engine staffed by a...

maybe because its a rather new venture? not quite sure. but its not private some large socal departments have found it to be more productive. (glendale, compton, long beach) plus the a/o's get paid w/ great benefits while gaining their emt exp, learning station duties and operations and setting...

sorry all for the lack of info & font noise i didnt think itd be that big i was in a rush. anyway here is the link to the posistion. http://www.governmentjobs.com/view_job.cfm?JobID=177626&Regen=1&

so i have testing with the FD in a week for the ambulance operator posistion which is basically running a BLS medic engine for the FD. same as any other emt ambulance job but its with the FD which is awesome BUTTT. does anyone know whats gonna be on the test? is it gonna be your ordinary emt...