This. Actual health care providers usually understand, though they're not shy about advocating for themselves. It's the family members who worked at a SNF ten years ago who tend to have strong, useless opinions about how you should be doing things.
Taming the SRU mentioned a while back that their HEMS service was trying fresh (non-frozen) plasma due to shelf life advantages.
http://www.tamingthesru.com/blog/prehospital-medicine/liquid-plasma-aka-never-frozen-plasma
I don't know if they're still doing it or have published anything.
Another...
The good news (for you, anyway) is that all of the companies mentioned would love to hire a warm body new EMT with no experience.
Especially because you need schedule flexibility, you want to shop around. All of these companies employ a fair number of college students part-time or per diem...
This is all part of the physiologic response to stress. A big part of the reason you're doing these scenarios now is to acclimate you to that level of stress and allow you to learn to manage it. The FOAM world's been on a bit of a cognitive performance kick recently and I'll try to dig up some...
Yeah, the South Shore pretty much pioneered the White People Opioid Epidemic. I thought it was IN, though. They might have switched over when the atomizer devices became more common and someone realized that cops and needles are not a natural mix. I'm told part of the training for these...
Less for the OP at this point, but since no one mentioned it:
you might have an anxiety disorder. That doesn't mean you can't be a good EMS provider, but you need to be properly evaluated, and if appropriate, treated so working in EMS doesn't make your life hell.
As has been mentioned, EMS can...
A misuse of taxpayer money, possibly illegal, definitely unethical, and not all that secret despite exhaustive denials? That really is a great analogy for people having sex on the job!
This is why we can't have nice things.
I tried to answer this a while back. IANAL (and I'm also not a lawyer), but this is pulled directly from the linked sites.
See?! The word filter just insulted Thom Dick! I knew it had no place on an EMS board!
Seriously, though, you can work on being a better provider after you finish the EMT course. What you need to do now is figure out whether you should be an EMS provider at all. People Care might help with that.
You're completely right about the big picture, though I'm not sure the divisions among EMS, medical transport, and non-medical stretcher transport are quite that clear. I also suspect attempting to legally separate the functions would just make things worse.
But whether someone finds any of...
This is something a lot of private EMTs with little prior knowledge of EMS/healthcare/life seem to go through. I no longer believe it's a stage on the way to Getting It. If it is, I don't think it's worth it to try to guide people through it; most of the people who are voicing thoughts like this...
Yeah, the unwarranted abuse and outright hostility to new people has largely driven me away. I wish there were a community out there where people could share opinions without being bullied under the guise of "debate" or "asking for evidence".
Mostly I wish the word filter wasn't on, because I...