Turned loose on the street…
This week we started our stage 1 ambulance rides (100 hours with the goal of “observing”) Learning how the system works, where things are in the ambulance, how to manage scenes, hand off reports etc –...
View ArticleConsciously Incompetent
Back during our scene safety lectures the instructor said that EMS providers could be broken down into 4 categories and that each marked a different level of progression in our evolution as...
View ArticleInteresting Perspectives
This week I had the opportunity to gain a unique and interesting perspective on a call from an angle we as EMS providers don’t often get to see. It was an “off week” from class due to Thanksgiving and...
View ArticleA Day Under The Lights…
For those of us who live this crazy life, share this insane passion for walking on the lunatic fringe day after day, the following is just another day… For those of you who don’t here’s a glimpse in...
View ArticleDefensive Training for EMS – Neccessary?
In a word – YES I have written on many occasions how lucky I am to be attending the Paramedic Program I do. As if I needed another reason to believe it was the right choice for me, from what I can...
View ArticleDefining Moments
In talking to some of my fellow students and a couple of the instructors, it seems that the students who do the best in Paramedic school all share one common trait – they had a single moment when they...
View ArticleAny Surprise? Do you agree?
Recently, CareerCast published a list of the 10 worst jobs in America in 2011 and low and behold coming in at number 6 – EMT. “On the other hand, jobs like EMT have considerably better hiring...
View ArticleMachines that go bing
During a recent class I had one of my “illusions of being a paramedic” shattered it was illuminating for me and bears repeating. I’ve heard many of my partners say treat the patient not the (insert...
View ArticleAssessment tools…
I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain this concept for the better part of a week now, and I’m still not sure I will do a great job without some sort of visual reference – but I’ll give it a go....
View ArticleTakin it to the streets
I’ll begin by apologizing for it being so long between posts, you have certainly been neglected, but not forgotten. As it often does, life in general has gotten to be more than a little crazy the last...
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