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I recently retired my blauers in favor of some Red Wing WORX series boots. 8" with a side zip and a safety toe for a decent price, and the soles felt like I was walking on clouds, which after a day of trying on boots, was a relief. Got them at an actual Red Wings store, so they came with a...

We transport peds psych patients all the time from our ED to our off site psych facility. Some kids need it. And sometimes I just get the feeling that the parents are checking them in to get a break for the weekend... I think the youngest I've brought over was 6.

Any ER that just says "jump in whenever" instead of pairing you with a preceptor sounds like a wasted clinical. I know you feel like you should be doing your best to stay under the radar, but you're not doing yourself any favors by doing clinicals in a place that refuses to cultivate your...

Nothing, that's a job for the OR. We'd manage pain, dress, and splint in place. Open femur fx usually have a surgical consult within minutes of arrival.

xport with chief complaint of AMS.

last oral intake, to include drugs and alcohol.

http://en.ecgpedia.org/wiki/ST_Morphology

Collision? or do you have an interesting story?

I know exactly what thread that is on PoF. You have given yourself away :P

Went to PoF. Pretty sure I now have cancer.:glare: I'll admit that the "Paramedic vs Ambulance Driver" manefesto had me a little pissed off. That was until I got to the last few paragraphs. It's funny what reading the entire post will do... As for the IV cath size debate...

The 4 months that my EMT-B course took still felt like learning-by-firehose. I can't imagine you'd retain much of your knowledge for very long after cramming for 2 weeks.

Documentary was okay, but completely glosses over and omits one of the biggest issues in our health-care system. That being care of the mentally ill. Though the over-arching idea of placing more emphasis on Primary Care Physicians (while a duh concept for people in healthcare) needs to be...

This is definitely one of the "know your audience" kinds of questions. No one really wants the true bad story, so usually the one about attempting a rectal temperature on the dirty 600 lb woman who completely fills a hospital gurney suffices. This usually includes a throwaway joke about...

Especially west river... East river is just lost Minnesotans.

I was called by our hospital's patient advocacy office because a patient (Motorcycle accident) that i had seen had some missing cash. I just confirmed that I didn't throw any belongings away and that I had not seen any cash. Since I had never been accused of anything like that, and I was...

I had the mother of a middle age man grab me while I was returning a wheelchair to where we keep them in the entry way to say that her son was in immense pain and needed help out of the car. I got to the car and he stood up, got out and got in to the wheelchair, then started asking for meds...

WolfmanHarris? Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.:cool: Couldn't resist.

^Truth, Not to mention mine will pay me for, and pay for any CE I attend or any other classes I deem useful to my job (as long as my supervisor agrees). And yes, if I decide to pursue nursing or a paramedic ticket while I am employed there, they will pay for it as well. (I think it's after I...

No I'd say something along the lines of "No I dont know, but if you ask the nurse over at the triage desk he/she might be able to help you out." Does a couple of things: Determines whether or not the person is a patient. Gets the person to triage if they haven't done so already. Keeps you...

I've been an ER tech for a little over a year now at a Level II trauma center. Some thoughts: Upsides: 1.Depending on the size of your ER, you'll get to see a lot of different patients. Everything you've ever heard of, and some that you couldn't ever imagine. You will do things that would...