i see what youre saying. but what im looking for is accepted AMA abbreviations. chances are, if youre looking at my narrative, youve been doing this for a while and should know what the accepted universal abbreviations for things are.
we have tablets to do all the paperwork. during orientation we got to review calls for training purposes and i noticed in a majority of the narratives, abbreviations were used for a lot of things.
yessir i did. the only thing i blanked on was a unexpected delivery question. Baby is born, hr 85, respirations normal. whats the next step. i said assessment of color thinking apgar (pulse, breathing, complexion, flexion, reflex). the correct answer was begin assisted ventilations, which still...
im pretty much just reading the OEMS protocol binder i got cover to cover... stopping or slowing down on anything that i dont know or am unsure about.
But yes, it is pretty much the same for most....
just simply separating the ALS and BLS protocols. Yes everything could potentially lead into an ALS only situation, but for BLS a majority of them are just assess and monitor vitals as well as transport....
my biggest thing is just separating the ALS from BLS in the protocol book.... i feel like im studying one page, then searching and searching until i get to another BLS protocol page. Half of them state that BLS cant do much because we dont have the materials to even diagnose the patient (a big...
i think maybe people may have misunderstood my intentions. to those i flipped out on, sorry, im just wound tight right now...
Im not arguing with how its offered or what advice people are giving, im just saying i didnt appreciate the advice is to step up my game and grow up. thats not what...
No i dont take that as mean, i take that as not reading my posts clearly. i DO know what i need to know, but i failed the first test and they dont tell you how you failed. The test they administer is very biased and opinion filled, therefore it is hard to gauge where i went wrong. If you were...
not what i meant. they dont correct you when you fail... they just say you failed, heres the retest date. if you fail again, you will be discharged. thats not correcting, just consequencing.
Any suggestions for this? I need to find one relatively fast. Also, any EMT's or Medics hearing impaired (as in moderate to severe) here? Any advice/tips/techniques?
I do wear hearing aids, which tends to pose a problem when needing to get a BP. I can hear other things just fine... Most often...
lol, believe me i have been sleeping with index cards, my protocol/standing orders binder, and EMT-B course book for the last week. I just seem to draw blanks on stuff.
But i remember better if i get "corrective action" from someone else.
I retake the protocol test Monday at noon.... i failed my first yesterday. We had orientation all week. Everything was all OK. I remembered pretty much everything. The only thing i needed to work out was just the medications and their uses/dosages.... which i now know.
If you fail the exam...