Evidently Chimpie got offended by my comment, because he has a girlfriend. So, who ever is a moderator...please delete my message.
Sorry if I can't joke around on here like everyone else. Guess I don't belong here since I don't fit into the "click".
On my 3rd clinical at a hospital ER... I was helping in triage.
This little lady came in ... her face covered in hematomas. Turned out she fell several days prior but the "red" kept growing on her face...as she put it.
The triage nurse looks at her point blank and says "Did you Fall Down Go...
Since I live in central Florida, it's our top story of every day. I have been following the case for a long time.
Turns out, I don't believe it's the money at all, because realistically, any money that the insurance would have paid has probably already been spoken for by the medical bills...
Yeah, it's weird. We using the text book "Prehospital Care" by Brady...
I will check with the instructor, because I know they have said before that what goes on in the field is different than what the national curriculum dictates...
In my class currently, we are being taught to apply 15 lpm by NR mask to any patient with an MI or CVA, unless they don't tolerate the mask...
I am in Florida - are the actual protcols different than what they teach from the book??? What about on the NR?
Hey SP -
I tried to open the links but it said it wasn't available..
Man, I am sorry to hear about your former co-worker... I will definitely say a prayer.
I am still teary from watching Ladder 49 and then I read this...
Unbelieveable.
:(
Can you believe, after they were caught.... the ER tech walked away and she shouted "my arm, my arm!"
I guess to "distract" everyone from what was going on.
The ER (pumping his hand up and down in a known obscene gesture) says "Yeah, I am sure her "arm" hurts..... :lol:
I have ADD/ADHD also, and I am able to utilize self control in my EMT-B class. However, I don't go around to everyone stating that I am learning disabled to get any sympathy or special treatment. I think it's wrong for her to abuse the system that way. Sounds like she doesn't want to put...
I GOT 100 ON MY MIDTERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got a 100 for the written version and also a 100 on the physical pt assessment!!!
I am on cloud 9!!! :D