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silver said:
If things quiet down during your clinicals and you are looking for stuff to do, ask to follow the patient places such as the ICU, cath lab, OR, interventional neuroradiology lab. Go and ask questions.

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Yes, do this. When they page out a code blue in the er, or that a truama alert is inbound, you can run to the emergency room! It'll be just like on t.v.
 
So I have 12 hours done of my 40 on the ambulance and got one call that ended with a refusal.


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emergancyjunkie said:
So I have 12 hours done of my 40 on the ambulance and got one call that ended with a refusal.


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That sounds like a typical day in a rural/suburban setting. When I did my medic MICU roations (10 24 hr shifts) we averaged about 2 calls a shift. My last 24 we ran 0.
 
emergancyjunkie said:
So I have 12 hours done of my 40 on the ambulance and got one call that ended with a refusal.


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Eh, that's EMS for ya, you can get bombarded with calls, have no calls or anything between. It sucks sometimes, especially as a student, but it happens.


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It still was an exciting day looking forward to more time on the ambulance aswell as getting to know the medics and emts at the company

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Come hang for 12 hours here. We did 14 runs in 12 hours with 10 transports the other day.
 
NVRob said:
Come hang for 12 hours here. We did 14 runs in 12 hours with 10 transports the other day.
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Haha I wish I could but I can only do them through the ambulance company I'm taking the class at

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NVRob said:
Come hang for 12 hours here. We did 14 runs in 12 hours with 10 transports the other day.
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Gah, you guys work too much, gotta learn to relax every now and then :P
 
I like it! I'm trying to see if I can get on a 3x16 hour box for my internship instead of the usual 4x12.
 
NVRob said:
I like it! I'm trying to see if I can get on a 3x16 hour box for my internship instead of the usual 4x12.
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Haha, whatever floats your boat :P
 
epipusher said:
Yes, do this. When they page out a code blue in the er, or that a truama alert is inbound, you can run to the emergency room! It'll be just like on t.v.
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I was shadowing in the ER the other day and a "Rapid Response" (not a code, but about to be one) was paged to ER radiology where one of my docs patients was at the time. We, along with some of the ER nurses, briskly jogged there.
 
emergancyjunkie said:
Is being bad at spelling going to effect being an emt

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It is if you expect people to take you seriously.

And there things that if you just switch one or two letters it means something entirely different.
 
You should at least be able to spell your title...

That said, I will google words I'm unsure of the spelling while writing reports. Your report is a legal document, it should be legible, neat, in black ink (or on a computer) with no spelling errors.
 
Sasha said:
You should at least be able to spell your title...

That said, I will google words I'm unsure of the spelling while writing reports. Your report is a legal document, it should be legible, neat, in black ink (or on a computer) with no spelling errors.
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What she said ^^^. I do the exact same thing and Google words I'm unsure of. There are many times I know I have spelled a word a thousand times and for some reason that 1,001 time I can't remember. And than we have the words that no matter how many times I look them up I can never remember their spelling... for example... rendezvous. That z and v messes me up all the time.. lol. But instead of looking like an idiot in my report I ALWAYS have to look that word up to make sure it is spelled correctly.

Trust me... spelling really does matter especially when you get the "little" words wrong like emergency.
 
emergancyjunkie said:
Is being bad at spelling going to effect being an emt

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Yes it will. Not only is your run sheet a legal document, but if your work for an agency that bills, the run sheet becomes the basis for the patient's bill. Plus, many company's have QI programs where run slips are read for content, no better way to lose credibility than having poor spelling in your narrative. Grammar and syntax counts too (that means proper pronunciation!).
 
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