So, i recently got fired. I been working for a few months, still a probie. an open 24 hour shift came up so i took it. yay first 24! it was a nice busy day, including my first full-code around midnight where the guy died (my first death too)
Then at 0300 we get an interfacility for a postpartum woman to another hospital 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours away. Basically just needed to bring her there cause her baby was brought there earlier. Totally stable, got on the gurney for us.
So we're driving, and i'm in the back. We talk for a good 30-45 min, just small talk, and taking vitals every few minutes. Then she wants to sleep since she gave birth around 8 hours ago. so i shut off the lights and sit back in the captain's seat. look at my phone, it's 0400. i had been up already since the previous 0400 to get to work. so i sit back for probably a good 10 minutes. and the next thing i know my partner whose driving taps my shoulder with the phone to call the hospital. i look at the phone and it's 4:20am.
that's all, i call the hospital, we get the PT there safe and sound. the PT loved me btw. then i offer to drive the 1 1/2 hours back to HQ so my partner can get some sleep. end of story. everything is all good.
1 week later, i get pulled into the Director's office and get canned for dozing off for 10 minutes plus a bunch of BS "small things" like they "feel like my heart was not in it" and crap like that. I understand i was still on probation and the PT was post partum but i still monitored her vitals every 15 min or so, and nothing happened. i just think this would have been an easy fix, just make sure i have a red bull or something on night transports or something. but instead, im out of a job and probably wont be able to get another one for a while.
i was also the first asian or any colored person to be hired in this semi-rural ambulance company.
any thoughts? do i just suck or what?
Then at 0300 we get an interfacility for a postpartum woman to another hospital 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours away. Basically just needed to bring her there cause her baby was brought there earlier. Totally stable, got on the gurney for us.
So we're driving, and i'm in the back. We talk for a good 30-45 min, just small talk, and taking vitals every few minutes. Then she wants to sleep since she gave birth around 8 hours ago. so i shut off the lights and sit back in the captain's seat. look at my phone, it's 0400. i had been up already since the previous 0400 to get to work. so i sit back for probably a good 10 minutes. and the next thing i know my partner whose driving taps my shoulder with the phone to call the hospital. i look at the phone and it's 4:20am.
that's all, i call the hospital, we get the PT there safe and sound. the PT loved me btw. then i offer to drive the 1 1/2 hours back to HQ so my partner can get some sleep. end of story. everything is all good.
1 week later, i get pulled into the Director's office and get canned for dozing off for 10 minutes plus a bunch of BS "small things" like they "feel like my heart was not in it" and crap like that. I understand i was still on probation and the PT was post partum but i still monitored her vitals every 15 min or so, and nothing happened. i just think this would have been an easy fix, just make sure i have a red bull or something on night transports or something. but instead, im out of a job and probably wont be able to get another one for a while.
i was also the first asian or any colored person to be hired in this semi-rural ambulance company.
any thoughts? do i just suck or what?
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