Taking BP manually will help keep the skill up to date and with the automatic once it's just one more stupid thing to break on me and get bodily fluids all over.
Of course it will throw off the heart beat, its still being discussed on how to treat. They have started keeping the leads close to the mothers heart and actually putting a lead or to in the back of the mother.
Well this more than you can handle with one rig so your going to have to call in more resources for sure sounds like everyone is getting c-spined do to the fact that the crash was enough kill an occupant from there follow your ABC's O2 PRN control any major bleeding and so on. Contact trauma...
Keep in mind that they will give you time to sleep usually 7 hours but the bad thing is that you will prob only get paid for 16 of those hours unless your station is sweet like that.
Sit in the front of the class thats where all the ones that want to be there sit and its easier to read all the material on the board. get two other people together now and study together when sims come youll have a better understanding and work better with your partners.
I think that you should get rid of all nurse based ambulances for the following reasons:
1. Nurses can use more meds then paramedics so if you manned the rig with medics you wouldn't have to carry so many meds.
2. Nurses are medication happy when a doctor isn't breathing down their neck, shoot...
I took the 8 week course out of Miramar its alot of reading in a short time so you wont have much of a socal life for the time being if you have a family or job while school is in I'd go for the 16 week. YOU HAVE TO WANT IT or you'll slack I was top 6 in a class of 80.