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Is it common for people to quit on the spot? I'll admit, I was one, but it was a bad place to be. I was wondering if this was rare or if it was common for people to quit and what they're reasons might've been.

Let me start from the beginning. I have a friend who was an EMT-B for a local ambulance service. He told me they were hiring so I showed up and applied. I filled out the application and talked to the guy and he said I was hired as long as I didn’t have anything on my driving record, no formal...

How flexible are private ambulances with firefighter schedules? I'm a volley right now and I work one 24 hour shift a week but its ABC shift so if I work Monday one week it will be Tuesday another. Will this hurt my chances with these companies? I don't mind pulling a a 24 and a 16 hr shift.

How did you guys go through school AND support yourselfs? Do schools work with your schedule or you work with theirs? Did you take the month off for the FD ride outs or change up your schedule? Just seeing what you guys did so I have an idea of what to expect down the road. Also I only...

When I did my ride outs, two different medics had their own pulseox's that they used. I asked them about it and they said most of the medics with the department liked using them. Do medics also use electronic blood cuffs as well? [forgot to ask]

I remember my instructor telling us... "If you forget everything in this class, ALWAYS remember ABC and you'll be ok" Agree or disagree?

I was wondering if anyone could post there protocols or at least show me a general idea of what a set looks like. On a positive side note, I’m taking a test for a volunteer firefighter position in March. No certifications are required and I’m hoping my EMT-B and clean record will put me “one...

since my friend and I have not been hired yet as EMT-B's (we're both in firefighter school) we always drill each other on different scenarios. We were drilling each other last night when we came up with a scenario we disagree on: You have a 25 year old male who is unresponsive. No medical...

I just got my EMT-B cert. and was wondering what kind of hours you guys worked? When I did my ride outs with a private company, they had 8,12,16,and 24 hours shifts starting at all kinds of hours (the weridest was 3am to 3pm). Just wondering if this was a set thing for all companies or if...

I go by Jeff but on all my cards it says Jeffrey. When I made my account on NREMT, I put Jeff and ended up gonig through a circus just have it changed to Jeffrey (since all the information on your ATT has to match your other ID's). I made an account on pearsonvue and set a test date and guess...

You guys weren’t kidding when you said time flies by. 120 lecture hours, 30 hours in the ER, and 45 in the box and I feel like I haven’t even started. I’m hoping to get on with a private company once I pass my national registry but after my ride outs and pondering the last few hours about them...

Wow! It seemed so easy in class but once I tried to apply my skills to it I had the hardest time. I did my best to fill them out at my 12hr clinical but I feel like they aren't very good. I'm a little nervous because I don't know if my instructor will fail me for writing such poor assessments...

We we’re discussing EKG placement when someone brought up an interesting point (considering the majority of the class is males) what do we do if we have a female patient? The ER tech said one way, the nurse said another, and our teacher said something different! I wasn’t for pleased with the...

I have clinicals in a few weeks and I'm a little worried because I have no idea what to expect. Our instructor is also having us fill out patient forms as well to get the practice. Can anyone give me any hints/tips/insight to what I'll be seeing/doing?

In my class we learned last night that if the patient has an advanced airway in place that one person provides breaths every 8-10 seconds while the other person provides 100 compressions. Both of these are done as separate fuctions. Once we've done 100 compressions, do we switch, start back at...