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My partner and I got into a disagreement today about orthostatic vitals. We both agreed on the amount that they can change however he told me that after you have the pt. stand up from sitting down and they DO NOT feel dizzy. That would automatically make them negative for orthostatic vitals. I...

You guys really like to jump to conclusions, I'm not dirty chill out

Why is that censored I didn't curse I just wrote the word poke. Since when is Poke a bad word?

I have a drug test on monday for a BLS private ambulance company. I was wondering wether or not it is a Urine test or Blood drug test. I have really bad veins and it is always an ordeal to get blood samples from me so I am really not looking forward to getting blood drawn and the 5 times they...

Stay out of San Diego county we have enough people here already. Seriously thou the job market blows for EMTs right now. AMR had ten openings 300 people applied and another ambulance opening had 6 openings and 84 people applied.

Test is pretty basic stuff, I took one for AMR and it was 80 question mulitple choice. I took another test at another company and it was multiple choice and fill in the blank. It was a lot of procedures and scenarios. As for the skills I was asked to perform Vitals PRBELLS, Airway nasal and oral...

Anyone know how or where to get trained in California for EMT-Intermediate

AMR Test I just took it Tuesday this week, it was about 140 questions. 80 where basically NR questions and you can miss 25 out of those. Then they have about 60 questions about your character. The answers are strongly agree or strongly disagree those are pretty easy to decipher what they want...

Also I am a little biased, I was born in Oregon and then moved to Washington. My dad was a project manager for Physio Control and developed the Lifepack 500 and the lifepack 12 so I grew up visiting different fire stations all around king county and met a lot of medics. It was a fun time but...

The Paramedics have a much more advanced scope of practice up there as opposed to down in San Diego. I was talking to a medic who told me there are about 30 more drugs they can push compared to medics down in San Diego.

Why Move Washington especially King County has a badass EMS system. Why would you want to move away from that? I am down in Southern California and I want to become a EMT-P up in Seattle. Is it tough getting work up there?

Thank You Everyone thank you so much for all your input and advice it has really helped me out a lot. First test I had I received a 73, Second test was an 83 and finally today we just took the midterm and I received an 85 (class average was 80) I am starting to get a hang of it. The past few...

I am currently enrolled in a 6 week summer EMT class but I am really having a tough time with the instructor and the class. I stayed up till two in the morning (8 hours studying) reading the Anatomy and Physiology chapter last night. We were told we would have a quiz on the chapter the following...