JPINFV
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No. I think you were denied because you flat out refused to do a part of the job description during your interview.
Looking for a clinical EMT job in Los Angeles County
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Do you think the reason they denied me because I am Asian?
I heard that there are only 1.7% EMT's that are Asians in California and I belong on that category.
Sorry guys, I am still disappointed and discourage on what happened.
Where did you get that statistic from?
Do you think the reason they denied me because I am Asian?
I heard that there are only 1.7% EMT's that are Asians in California and I belong on that category.
Sorry guys, I am still disappointed and discourage on what happened.
I doubt it's that, there's a lot of Asians at my place of employment. Pretty sure, as JPINFV is, it was your attitude.
By the way, you guys might misunderstand it. I applied in Gerber Ambulance not in McCormick.
The Gerber Ambulance is posted on my 1st message and the McCormick conversation occurs when I was only inquiring but not applying by email.
The Gerber Ambulance is posted on my 1st message and the McCormick conversation occurs when I was only inquiring but not applying by email.
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Get a better attitude, or better yet, get out of EMS and just do nursing....
And vent, In SD at least we can do ETAD, I can't yet since i haven't been certified for it, but we have extended scope EMT's here that can. I won't be getting trained on combitube since we're going to the King soon.
And vent, In SD at least we can do ETAD, I can't yet since i haven't been certified for it, but we have extended scope EMT's here that can. I won't be getting trained on combitube since we're going to the King soon.
ETAD does not necessarily mean ETI.
Never said EMTs can't do ETI in some parts of this country. It is just that hospitals are not going to be so easy to allow someone without a license intubate within the walls of their ED. There are too many MDs, NPs, PAs, Paramedics, RNs and RRTs in the building that hold a license and the education to back up the skill.
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Alright, I will
As far as getting hired on as an EMT/ER Tech in a hospital. I worked at a Santa Monica Hospital for years and most of the ER techs at the hospital where transferred from other dept's with in the hospital. Current employee's get first dibs on any opening's in a hospital. I bounced around to many dept's in the hospital. (never the ER, they would not hire me because my live in girlfriend at the time was a ER RN, the Dept head said nope, ain't going to do it...damn her..the gf that is!)
Is there a chance hospitals could hire EMT w/o experience if they found out that I am studying Nursing?
My GPA is 3.5 and I believe that I am in good shape to be hired.
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Of course you have a chance of getting hired in an ER. It can not hurt to try.
Sasha
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They might, but then you might be fired as soon as they find out your attitude towards the nasty "care giver" part of being in health care.
In most places the nursing schools release information for students about summer jobs and internships. Consider looking for that type of stuff. I know for a fact that every legitimate teaching hospital has nursing student summer internships. They will pay okay, and you work 1 on 1 with a RN who will guide you through nursing workflow and patient care. pretty simple stuff and no nasties (okay that might be a lie).
You don't even know me in real life and you start prejudging a person.
I don't deal with irrelevant conversation.
If you cannot say anything right, you have the rights to remain silent.
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JPINFV
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I think the only proper response to this would be to provide quotes about your attitude.
You know, my old EMS job in So Cal would have been so much more enjoyable if I never had to deal with bodily fluids, but bodily fluids comes part and parcel with working in any health care job, especially ones that work with the elderly.
Huh?
Sasha
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I judged you based on your previous posts, quoted for your convience by JPINFV above.
I also have the right to voice my opinion (which I happen to think, based on what you've posted here, to be right.)
How far are you in "studying nursing"? You sound like a new student with no real grasp of what nursing involves if you don't think that it, also, is a dirty job like a care giver which you are not dedicated.
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Your expectations of EMS was not valid due to unrealistic expectations of what the job entitles and the need of EMT's. Unfortunately, you are continuing not to learn off your previous mistakes. Nursing (especially at a LPN/LVN level) requires patient care including hygeine and related care, NO matter what level or license you have. I have those with DNSc assist and clean a patient, that is WHY you are a nurse. It is part of the profession and job, alike being able to read a map is that of a EMT.
I suggest a career counselor, you appear to need guidance on what your expectations and what the REAL world as a profession requires.
R/r 911
I suggest a career counselor, you appear to need guidance on what your expectations and what the REAL world as a profession requires.
R/r 911
I could deal in dirty jobs because I live in poverty and grew up in a slum community out of the United States. I was also a care giver for a year. Also, I just got out from the U.S. Military, so if you notice that my attitude is kinda straight because this is what I learned from the military as an M1 Armor Crewman. There is a general rule that never tolerate abusers otherwise they will end up taking advantage of you. Most ambulance companies are earning millions of money taking from there client's insurance company everyday and they could not even appreciate the work of there workers. I understand that life is tough and everyone needs to be wise in order to survive. I have my own siblings, go work, and school at the same time. I believe that volunteering won't help me gaining (rather than experience) anything instead those companies will gain more profit from other people. I might experiencing culture shock because in the military they trained us while getting paid the government also provides our malpractice insurance if necessary, plus they provide everything compare in civilian life that we need to volunteer w/o paid, which does really confuse me.
Ridryder911, thanks for your advice. I would probably do that.
Sasha, I guess you need to keep your opinions to yourself. You need to learn how to deal with newbie EMT's who just got out from school. I hope that you are not a prejudice to your patients. Anyway thanks for your little help.
Ridryder911, thanks for your advice. I would probably do that.
Sasha, I guess you need to keep your opinions to yourself. You need to learn how to deal with newbie EMT's who just got out from school. I hope that you are not a prejudice to your patients. Anyway thanks for your little help.
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Sasha
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Uhm.. .how was I prejudice? You're the one who said you don't want a 'dirty job". Not me.
I will voice my opinion as I see fit. You're not a mod, and I didn't break any rules by doing so. Because I don't happen to agree with you, you don't want to hear it? As a "newbie" to EMS, you should heed the advice that if you don't want to do dirty, icky, gritty, nasty, fluidy things, you should re-evaluate your goals before you invest too much time into it. That is part of EMS, Nursing, and all of Health Care. it's not glamourous like TV leads you to believe.
I will voice my opinion as I see fit. You're not a mod, and I didn't break any rules by doing so. Because I don't happen to agree with you, you don't want to hear it? As a "newbie" to EMS, you should heed the advice that if you don't want to do dirty, icky, gritty, nasty, fluidy things, you should re-evaluate your goals before you invest too much time into it. That is part of EMS, Nursing, and all of Health Care. it's not glamourous like TV leads you to believe.
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Sasha is one of the last people you want to make angry on this site.
I mean, she IS a female....
I mean, she IS a female....