Search results

I appreciate the feedback, folks, and I can understand how vague a question I might have posed. While there may not be much to basic trauma care in the grand scheme of things, I guess I'm just a little paranoid that I'm going to forget what I learned, considering the only time I ever used it...

Just about everything I've seen posted so far applies to me for the most part, the non-discreet dipping, the texting and driving, and excessive swearing all grind my gears to one degree or another, and I've only been on the job for a week! But on a lighter note, the one thing that really...

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...

Ok, so it might have only been about two months ago, but whenever I hear "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, I remember my first ride along. Bouncin' down the road with lights and sirens with that cranked up on the radio, it was the moment that everything fell into place and let me know that this...

While not yet "in" the medical field yet, most of the patients that I dealt with during my ride alongs certainly fit the frequent flier description, even though they weren't so familiar to me. I can honestly say that the crew that I was running with was glad that I was along, because it allowed...

Well, after about an hour and a half, and two blisters on my hand, I finally got the check off for the tib/fib board splint. Ironically, the key to the whole thing for me was just tying it really freakin' tight, not to mention cravat placement to immobilize the knee. I'll be quite thankful...

Thanks for the help so far guys. I only wish I could use kerlix for this skill, as I'm pretty sure that I could get some wicked tightness on the spints with it, but alas, they want us doing it the "old fashioned way." My trouble with the square knot isn't so much that I can't do it (hey, I...

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...

Currently, I'm doing my ride alongs for EMT-IV certification here in Tennessee. While I can understand the advantages of riding with a bunch of different crews, for myself personally, I've found it more rewarding to stick with the same folks for all of my rides. Not only is it great to get...

All I can say, is as long as I get to keep bouncing down the road in the back of an ambulance with full lights and sirens with "Stayin' Alive" blasting on the radio, I'm going to be a pretty happy guy. Getting to work some calls is just icing on the cake.

As the new guy, this joke is still new to me, but whenever the dispatcher says, "Patient requests entry through rear entrance," I can't help but laugh. I know, I'm juvenile and immature, but isn't that a requirement for being an EMT? ::ducks thrown objects::

While I'm sure the sentiment is there, we have a private company here by the name of Lifeguard. I can't help but think of a swimming pool whenever I see it.

I'm not sure where I read these, some sort of Samurai novel I think, and while they're not expressly applicable to EMS, I think they are kind of fitting considering that the term samurai translates into servant. "For the coward there is no life. For the hero, there is no death." Take from...

I'm with you on the job part, man. The paperwork on my end isn't so bad so far, I wouldn't mind doing PCR's so much if they let us students use the narrative method rather than the Chart-e, though that's just my opinion, me being a wannabe writer and all. As far as politics go, thankfully, I...

I can only hope that things work out so that I can have this career for the rest of my life, as Medickat put succinctly, the lights and sirens do indeed excite me somethin' fierce. My second ride was more or less an exercise in futility, moving from a Behavioral that turned out to be domestic...

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...

Not really meaning to hijack the thread here, but I find myself in a similar position and was looking for some feedback on the subject. I'm starting my EMT-IV clinicals in the next week or so, through Fisdap (I think that's what it's called,) 48 hours on an ambulance, and 16 hours in the ED...