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Just like I do every day but this time ill be wearing gold. Any tips on my first day as a working medic? I'm nervous about my clear rides. We do 20 shifts with an FTO and five are third rides. Everyone tells me I'm a great medic and I'll be fine but I still always get nervous when I'm being judged.
 
Frozennoodle said:
Just like I do every day but this time ill be wearing gold. Any tips on my first day as a working medic? I'm nervous about my clear rides. We do 20 shifts with an FTO and five are third rides. Everyone tells me I'm a great medic and I'll be fine but I still always get nervous when I'm being judged.
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You got this :)
 
Seriously, the clearing process is the easiest time you will have as a medic. You are out of school and no longer considered a "student". You are no longer trying to demonstrate that you have a clue... you proved that by earning your patch. Now comes the time to reflect on what you have learned and apply it to the real world for your agency.

Concentrate on treating your patients with care, your coworkers with respect, and learning all you can from your FTO about how things work in your system. Nobody expects you to be perfect on day one, don't be afraid to ask for help or opinions, that's why you're clearing.

Each call you run will add to the data base building in your head of the one thing you can't buy in medicine... expierience. Whether you nail it or fumble it every call is a learning process and if you remain humble, keep an open mind and do the best you can on every call you will be fine.

Good luck and have fun you worked hard to get that patch!
 
starting IVs, intubating, treatment plans, that is all the easy stuff, don't sweat it.

Make sure you fill out the paperwork properly.
 
Just relax and you will be fine. Uni only teaches you the bare basics that you need to start learning, I have learnt far more on the street than I ever did through theory.

If you have no idea what you are doing then at the very least act confident towards the patient and their family or whomever else is around and that is about 90% of the battle won.

Your partner/mentor/CSO will expect that you will need extra help and they should support you. If not, find somebody who will; for every good partner/mentor I have had I have also had a bad one.

Some very important things I have learned are that treatment may be as simple as picking somebody up off the floor and putting them back in their chair or a reassuring check of their obs and kind word, and that if you can look at yourself and go "I made a mistake" and learn from it then you'll do fine.
 
Thanks guys. I'm 4 calls in and I'm feeling much better about it all.
 
Just remember, you expected to be a "ENTRY LEVEL MEDIC" your brand new, you not expected to be the beeze knees seasoned Medic man right off of the bat, takes a good two years before you start feeling absolutely comfortable and show full competency.
 
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