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Ambulance Oscar 5 has a status one patient, require Intensive Care Paramedic with much of the fastness
 
Dear cashier at the food place today. A few quick tips to do your job better from someone who used to be a cashier in high school and the start of undergrad.

1. If you accidently ring up a bottle of soda twice, do not just gustimate the cost instead of deleting the double ring. At best, you're register will be under the cost of a soda since you "sold" it. At worst, you guestimate wrong.

1.B. You also force the customer to pay cash.

2. If a customer asks you to "check your change," please check the change. 75 cents is not 2 quarters and a Susan B Anthony dollar coin. I asked you to check for a reason and a cursory point and count is not really checking.
 
ahhhh still have 5 posts for my online class to do tonight by 10 :) So much for staying on top of things lol
 
rescue/just need to share

He did not have alzheimer, as far as I know. He took care of the farm himself. Family and neighbors checked in on him constantly.
The night temps got down to low 50's, uppers 40's. Not the kind of weather an elderly gentleman (anyone really) should be out in.
 
Ambulance Oscar 5 would like to consult with an Ambulance Service Medical Advisor

Ring ring ... you do not have enough credit to make this call

Oh well looks like Brown will have to wing it :D
 
We got downgraded from ambulance to ambalamps today


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Is that an EnV?
 
Yeah, the touch
 
Happy birthday California!
 
Got that same phone. :D
 
Ok it's set, I have to take 8 hrs with a respiratory therapist. 24 hours L&D, 40 hours with OR (awesome!). I'm gonna get a solid clinical week focused solely on advanced airways, as an intermediate! It may not seem like enough but I fought to even get that much. They waived my ER time and let reassigned it to my OR and L&D time. I have to complete 72 hours in the ambulance as well.

Then I'll be off for the national registry!
 
Job offer at 2nd choice, check.

Interview to be scheduled with 1st choice: TBA.

I've got a solid month to get that interview, get another offer and take the better of the two.

I'm gonna chalk the success up to my NAEMT golden and blue pin on my tie.

Thanks for the advice to ROCK it, Jeffguy!
 
Ok, I made a thread on this a few days ago but no one answered.

Can loud noise make someone who is actively seizing continue seizing?

Not trigger a seizure initially, but keep them in seizure?

I had never heard anything like this before coming to dispatch, and I keep getting in arguments with people over it. For some reason they all think that it's extremely important to tell our callers reporting a seizure that they need to be quiet or else the person won't stop seizing or will go back in to seizure.

I can see why you don't want a ruckus around a confused, potentially combative postictal person, but that's not what this is all about. It's also not some kind of trick to get hysterical people to shut up and give necessary information, they all genuinely believe it's true and very important.

So important, that after a seizure call I got chided for asking relevant questions like "how are they breathing?" "What's their color?" and "do they have any history of seizures?" but not telling them to keep everyone quiet, even though everything sounded calm and quiet on the other line.

UGH. Frustrated. I'm seriously about to track down a neurologist to set them all straight on this. But maybe I really am in the wrong here?
 
i haven't heard anything like that before.
 
5 day weekend = sweet.

72 hour shift next week = not so sweet.
 
Passed my first exam!!!! 88% ^_^
 
Just finished spokefest '10 in Spokane WA. I did the 21 mile loop. Next year I plan on doing the 47 mile. But seeing as how I decided on friday to ride today, I didn't train much. lol. It was great, I got to get into some more biking in the future.
 
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