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Good luck.

Northern Essex Community College has an Associates and Anna Maria has the Paramedic Science Bachelors degree.

Here in MA there are colleges that have both associate degrees and bachelor's degrees in paramedicine. You can attend them out of High School. I would recommend working throughout the program as a Basic.

TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT THIS! At most a professional, and at the very least more than just expressing it in a forum online. This was a traumatic event for all involved, and anyone who can shrug that off is too burnt out to be in this business. BLS codes are a matter of protocol and muscle memory...

Personally I used a fill in the blank style for IFTs and chronological narration for 911 response. The first transport of the day would be written from memory and copied and I would paste as needed. It looked something like this: "A[#] dispatched priority [#] to [PLACE] to transport...

I know a medic out of the greater Boston area, LD, who is pushing her mid 60's. She was working BLS for years and got her medic when she was in her 50's. This person is in better physical shape than I am because she puts in the work to keep her body that way. She brings years of experience to...

All I can say is... good luck. I tried to relocate to Long Beach a few years ago and went through the BLS refresher process out there. I don't know about Medic scope in CA, but unless they got in with a FD, Basics in SoCal made minimum wage to do IFTs and the only meds they administered are epi...

Well. This convo escalated quickly... Here in Massachusetts, I'm pretty sure only LEO's can have lights on their personal vehicles and the rationale is for when they work traffic details. LEO's use blue and white, fire and EMS use red and white. Safety vehicles/ snow plows use amber and white...

EMR is not a profession, its a skill set to enhance a profession. When I trained for 4 months as a Professional Lifeguard in high school, becoming an EMR was part of the program, but those weren't the skills that defined my job. The purpose of an EMR is to provide initial first aid, CPR/AED...

Another vote for 5.11 EMS pants. Mine have held up really well over the years. Worth every penny!

Here in Massachusetts We have pretty much phased out AEMT and EMT-I. Reputable programs in the Boston area like Pro Center for Medics WILL take you right out of basic school, but its not recommended by them or anyone else. In my humble opinion, I wouldn't want to be that guy who goes from "zero...

I would agree. I went from EMT-B to RN but worked in a hospital ICU as a tech for the two years I was in nursing school. When I graduated I was hired directly into the Emergency Department as a new grad because I had made connections in the hospital. Becoming a medic would have added extra time...

For anyone interested in getting off the truck, my ED is hiring EMTs as "Technical Nursing Assistants." Pay starts around $16 and up with great benefits. Current available shifts as of 10/9/17 24hrs / week 1500-2300 32hrs / week 1500-2300 32hrs / week 2300-0700 32hrs / week 0700-1500...

You may have learned everything you can from IFTs, or at least enough to evolve and grow as an EMT. It's time to try 911 response. As others have noted, it might be worth the extra drive if it means getting you on a response truck. -r

Message me if you need any more advice. I'm going through the same thing, only it sounds like you're looking at BSN programs right out the gate, while I am working on my ASN and will work as an RN while I earn my BSN. Personally I feel like starting in EMS before nursing school solidified my...

That's awesome Jones. Keep it up! Hopefully we can both stay quit. Considering you have been smoking significantly longer than I have, I'm sure these guys would be very interested in hearing how you did it. Or more importantly how you stayed quit. -r

I smoked for 5 or 6 years and quit over a 6 month period ending last August. I was smoking camel lights for the most part, so basically what I did was start supplementing American Spirits, the heaviest I could find. They made me wicked lightheaded and nauseous. I would make every 3rd cigarette...

See my post above. Not everyone thinks that way. A few people may have been in that exact situation, but it doesn't represent the majority. Specific field-focused mid levels are the future of general medicine. -r

+1 This is an excellent point.

If I need to see my doctor tomorrow for strep throat, or almost any other non emergency medical problem for that matter, I would 99% of the time be seeing an NP who would test, diagnose, and prescribe meds. And I have absolutely no problem with that. My end goal at this point is to be either...