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So just last week, I managed to land a job with a local private service that mainly deals with patient transports to and from dialysis, with a little bit of hospital discharges thrown in for good measure. I'm new to EMS, like graduated from EMT class less than three months ago new, and I was...

Well, the good news is, I took my NREMT exam today and after a couple of hours, I found out I passed. I'll hold for applause. Though after doing so, I wrote out a check for my licensure fees and got ready to mail it off to the state, when I realized that the form said that I should have gotten...

So I find myself near the very end of my EMT-IV course with just a couple of things left to sign off on, and two of the glaring skills are those of splinting the tib/fib and the hip. Honestly speaking, I suck at tying square knots, and yes, in hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have left these two...

So, with about a month left until graduation from class, I'm feeling pretty excited about getting into the whole EMS field. My ride alongs have been awesome, though there weren't nearly enough of them, and the knack I have with the didactic material, I'm not too worried about my finals or the...

So nearing the end of my EMT-IV class, I've been a little hesitant about the ride alongs, as I'm well versed in the "book learnin;" aspect of the job, but lets just say my technical abilities are not quite what they should be. I mean, you give me some splints and some triangular bandages and I...

So Thursday night was our first "IV Night" in class. Admittedly, it did not go stellar for me. First was the guilt of not having to get stuck because my veins are apparently nonexistent (the instructors even found it hard to find them,) but that's besides the point. Basically, both of the...