Thanks, everyone so far at work I talked to said “we told you many times that you need to work on this, but you always said you were going to work on it but didn’t for whatever reason. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and fix it.” To an extent they’re right, but still that didn’t help.
So last night I messed up on a call and it caused a fellow EMT to get seriously injured and there might be a lawsuit from the family of the PT (no one died or had to be taken back to the hospital). I had to write up an incident report and I’m really doing my best not to spiral into a deep...
Well when dispatch told us to bring up the traction splint (at that point they didn’t tell us why) my first thought was “thank god there’s no carpet on the floor”
I had a very interesting transport tonight. My partner and I get sent out to help the ALS truck. Hospital to hospital. PT has a bilateral femur fx. (She had a minor disagreement with gravity on concrete steps) So we had to use two traction splints. Then we had to use the scoop stretcher so we...
So where I work is losing it’s 911 contract sometime early next year. They won’t even allow anyone to cover open shifts on the 911 side. At least we will have more trucks to use when this contract expires.
I’ve managed to change 2 of my 3 shifts because my partner is so tired/angry/salty. He doesn’t show it around patients obviously but working with him isn’t as fun as working with my other coworkers.
They also probably don't help people trust us. It might say "hey these EMS people don't trust anyone and are expecting that they could get shot on any call"
So on my last day of my first conference. Loved it, but I didn’t expect at how draining it is going from seminar to seminar. Even with the lunch I was so exhausted that I ended up not going to three of the ones I was going to and the SIM competition. Go figure that two of the seminars were a...