The anxiety-driven kiddo is back. The one who posted a month ago (check post history if you're curious)

[lolwhatarewedoing]

I did end up passing my EMT course with a 98% and my NREMT a few days ago at 70 questions. Y'all were truly right that I had nothing to worry about. Though, I do have a concern.

At the end of the course (after we all passed the NREMT psychomotor), we were all basically given "death" scenarios. Basically, these scenarios basically were extremely complicated and all of our patient died one way or another. For example, my simulated patient presented with diffuse abdominal pain. Naturally, I decided to palpate his abdomen. Immediate pain relief. Flatline and pulseless a few seconds after. Did 3 rounds of CPR before the instructor said "you can stop now" and said "there's no way you could have known that abdominal pain only was due to an aneurysm. Your patient had an AAA that you ruptured when you palpated."

That stung like a *****. Had that been a real patient, a brother, boyfriend, father, or whatever would have lost their life leaving their loved ones in shambles. Due to my stupidity.

My friends also got death scenarios but handled it quite well emotionally. They said "welp, it is what it is" What am I missing?

 

[ffemt8978]

I did end up passing my EMT course with a 98% and my NREMT a few days ago at 70 questions. Y'all were truly right that I had nothing to worry about. Though, I do have a concern.

At the end of the course (after we all passed the NREMT psychomotor), we were all basically given "death" scenarios. Basically, these scenarios basically were extremely complicated and all of our patient died one way or another. For example, my simulated patient presented with diffuse abdominal pain. Naturally, I decided to palpate his abdomen. Immediate pain relief. Flatline and pulseless a few seconds after. Did 3 rounds of CPR before the instructor said "you can stop now" and said "there's no way you could have known that abdominal pain only was due to an aneurysm. Your patient had an AAA that you ruptured when you palpated."

That stung like a *****. Had that been a real patient, a brother, boyfriend, father, or whatever would have lost their life leaving their loved ones in shambles. Due to my stupidity.

My friends also got death scenarios but handled it quite well emotionally. They said "welp, it is what it is" What am I missing?

What your missing is just experience, specifically the difference of when to use empathy and when to use dark humor and deflection to deal with no win scenarios or patients

 

[E tank]

I did end up passing my EMT course with a 98% and my NREMT a few days ago at 70 questions. Y'all were truly right that I had nothing to worry about. Though, I do have a concern.

At the end of the course (after we all passed the NREMT psychomotor), we were all basically given "death" scenarios. Basically, these scenarios basically were extremely complicated and all of our patient died one way or another. For example, my simulated patient presented with diffuse abdominal pain. Naturally, I decided to palpate his abdomen. Immediate pain relief. Flatline and pulseless a few seconds after. Did 3 rounds of CPR before the instructor said "you can stop now" and said "there's no way you could have known that abdominal pain only was due to an aneurysm. Your patient had an AAA that you ruptured when you palpated."

That stung like a *****. Had that been a real patient, a brother, boyfriend, father, or whatever would have lost their life leaving their loved ones in shambles. Due to my stupidity.

My friends also got death scenarios but handled it quite well emotionally. They said "welp, it is what it is" What am I missing?

That's the most ignorant scenario I've ever heard of. Borders on hazing if they were actually serious.

 

[CCCSD]

That's the most ignorant scenario I've ever heard of. Borders on hazing if they were actually serious.

No kidding. I’d LOVE to sit in on that class…