the 100% directionless thread

[Amberlamps916]

It's a county level 2 trauma center in Socal. I also have one shift in labor and delivery. Sadly, the hospital I wanted to do clinicals at let us hit every department but they weren't accepting students for another 2 months for some reason. 15 ER shifts and 1 L&D shift before I hit the streets. I wish I would be able to see more than just the ER but such is life.

 

[JPINFV]

First day of hospital clinicals for Paramedic school today. Hopefully will get to see and do alot.

Aren't you in Southern California? Which hospital?

 

[Amberlamps916]

Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley.

 

[lightsandsirens5]

Any OR shifts? Those are the best! Almost makes me want to be a CRNA.

 

[Amberlamps916]

No OR shifts.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Any OR shifts? Those are the best! Almost makes me want to be a CRNA.

I knew I missed a big one in my other post

No OR shifts.

Really? Are they relying solely on your ER clinicals to get you ETT experience then?

 

[Amberlamps916]

You want to know something sad? They only require 1 successful intubation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NomadicMedic]

That totally prepares you for the field.

Said no one. Ever.

 

[shfd739]

You want to know something sad? They only require 1 successful intubation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really???

We had to do a minimum of 10 in the OR and if the anesthesiologist felt you needed more then we did more.

 

[Amberlamps916]

It's ridiculous, I know. It's enraging to me. Regardless, I'm going to take every chance I get to score a tube.

 

[shfd739]

It's a county level 2 trauma center in Socal. I also have one shift in labor and delivery. Sadly, the hospital I wanted to do clinicals at let us hit every department but they weren't accepting students for another 2 months for some reason. 15 ER shifts and 1 L&D shift before I hit the streets. I wish I would be able to see more than just the ER but such is life.

That doesn't seem near enough.

We did 16- 16 hour er shifts;10 pedi er shifts; 5 labor/delivery/ob and 5 OR with the above intubation requirements.

 

[lightsandsirens5]

You want to know something sad? They only require 1 successful intubation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow....that's insane.

I had to get 14 between the OR, ER, and the truck.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley.

That hospital is always insanely busy. Even tho you are in my county I won't see you. We never transport that far haha

 

[Anjel]

Wow....that's insane.

I had to get 14 between the OR, ER, and the truck.

I have to get 5 or 16 OR hours.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Nice thing about being part time at work is 3-4 day riding trips without having to use PTO. Be back Monday.

 

[JPINFV]

Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley.

Ahh. RCRMC is where I'm doing OB/gyn. When do you do L&D?

 

[Amberlamps916]

I do L&D at a different hospital in Hemet.

 

[shfd739]

Ahh, refresher class discussions.

Once again I'm reminded why we will never move EMS forward.

Cuz we've always done it like this. lots of oxygen will make them feel better and won't hurt. I can go on.

mention studies and evidence to get blank stares and more refrains of "we've always done it like this"

 

[TRSpeed]

You want to know something sad? They only require 1 successful intubation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats ridiculous! RCC students have just started clinicals is that the school? Or NCTI? RCC is usually pretty good at placing stricter requirements.

Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley.

Aww... that means I'll most likely see you every day. I work in Riverside City but might end up heading to good'ol MoVal. That's a very busy hospital so you will get plenty of experience. What day or night shift?

 

[Epi-do]

So, today was the straw that broke the camels back.

I haven't really felt like this new job is the best fit for me. However, I was trying to keep an open mind and give it some more time. I feel like the protocols aren't as liberal as they want me to believe, and the medical director is pretty conservative. He and I have very different ideas about topics that I deal with on a pretty regular basis.

Yesterday, our pay stubs were available for us to view. The first week of January, I worked 24 hours on Jan 1 and 24 hours on Jan 4 for a total of 48 hours. The hospital policy is that anything over 40 hours is overtime. Therefore I should have 48 hours of overtime on my check that wasn't showing up on my pay stub.

I call the payroll girl, and leave her a message about it. When she called me back, I didn't hear my phone, so she left me a message. She told me that since Jan 1 was a holiday, and I received 16 hours of holiday pay, I have to subtract that 16 hours from the 48 hours I worked. They don't "count" towards determining hours worked for overtime since I was paid double time for those hours. Therefore, I would have had to worked 56 hours that week before receiving any overtime pay.

I have another call into her about it, because it does not mention this anywhere in the overtime or holiday pay policies. I also am unable to find it in any other policy as well. I have asked her to tell me what policy contains this information, because I want to see it for myself.

This is after a mistake with our last paycheck regarding withholdings, so they had to take additional money out of today's paycheck. I can tolerate a lot about a job, but not when you screw with my money.

I am just over it.