Recent content by Murzilka

Hmmm there are a TON of fire stations around here so if not this one then some other one will take me (hopefully) lol. The one I am trying for is just 5 min from my house, very convenient :D. The only weak point about me would probably be the fact that I just finished the class and have no...

Thanks!! I've been under an assumption that since you're giving your time for free there is a low chance of NOT getting the position. Is that true? I mean why would they deny someone who is not asking for money? LOL. Also do you or anyone else have any interview tips? Like what kinds of...

I JUST passed my EMT-B exam and I already have an interview today at a fire station to become a volunteer EMT. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to dress? Should it be business casual or can I wear nice dark jeans with a blouse?

Yes I am. Actually we are not supposed to have assistants in testing. That's what they told us all 3 months during class and before testing too. We have "imaginary" assistants who splint, bandage, and hold C-spine, and help us turn them over to assess the back. We have to do vitals, sample...

Wow whoever is being tested like this is lucky because we have no assistant and have to do everything by ourselves within 10 min. We just have BP cuff, stethoscope, and pen light and we verbalize placing pt on backboard, transporting, etc.

We covered it only in car accidents where we used KED. But yea seated NOT in a car we really didn't cover it. Even if it was mentioned (which I do not remember), we never practiced in the MANY scenarios we did for supine patients.

Maybe that would work in real life, but not in trauma testing ;)

Melclin, yea pretty much have to take C-spine if the skill is trauma. Since the patient was seated it threw me off cause I've never seen that before so I didn't take C-spine and that was one of the reasons I failed. To everyone, the only "tools" we have is BP cuff, stethoscope, and penlight...

Hi everyone. Please help! I recently had EMT-B certification exam where I failed Trauma because in my class we NEVER had a scenario like that. All our "patients" were always in supine position. I am not sure what to do. Basically the patient fell down. The big things are: 1. Seated patient...