Recent content by 281mustang

They increased the Medic pay from $14 to $15 when I left there about a year and a half ago, it took them the better part of a decade to increase the pay a dollar an hour so it's probably a safe bet that is the current starting wage. Plus I believe they give another 70 cents if you've been in the...

I understood the pay scale, I was just referencing the $10-12/hour comment in your previous post about that being the norm for the region. Do you by chance know how competitive the process is? At $16/hour I initially wouldn't think it would be too difficult to get on but if most Medics are only...

$10-12/hour? What a joke. I make $17.50 in Texas and that's sub-standard compared to what a lot of other employers are paying in the area. With that said, if they have stations and are strictly 911 I'll throw in an app. I like Charleston and have been looking to make a move to the east coast.

Medics? Are you referencing Medic 911 over in Charlotte?

I'm currently a Medic in Texas but am looking to more somewhere in the North Carolina/South Carolina/Tennessee/Georgia area. Anyone have any recommendations of places to apply? Thanks!

And exactly how would the problem be fixed in a way that raises wages proportional to the increased education standards?

No.

Be proactive, encourage people to take water breaks when necessary. Starting IV's on clients is playing with fire.

You can purchase IV supplies and saline online without a medical director, but legally speaking you open yourself up to a lot of liability issues in the event someone wanted to press the issue and take you to court. If you choose to go that route I'd limit the practice to family and close...

The article likely won't do anything to silence the voices of people on the other side of the issue, but it was a well composed rebuke nonetheless. This is the end-all point to the wage argument. Regardless of what people blindly say about increased education standards increasing our salary...

By the time we pulled into the ER bay it had been around 45 minutes since the call was originally placed, obviously the doc called it before we even wheeled him into the room. This was a 90-something year old guy in diapers, no one is going to continue running that. This was in the middle of...

I've seen it once. It was an unwitnessed arrest and he maintained in the 30s all the way until the 20 minute mark at which point med control insisted he be transported. He immediately plummeted between all the breaks in compressions and sub-standard CPR done while wheeling him to the unit and en...

It's unfortunately the sad reality of working in a highly desirable area that is oversaturated with EMT's/Medics.

We're in the low 20's where I work and Seattle leads the country at I believe around 40-50%. I want to say the national average is in the neighborhood of 15% or so. Keep in mind these are hospital discharge rates where the pt is fully neurologically intact, which is entirely different that just...

FWIW Detroit leads the nation with the worst hospital discharge rates from cardiac arrest at 1%. Granted, they should be cut a little slack being that they obviously work a good amount of trauma codes but whatever the hell they are doing doesn't seem to be working. Either way, it's still good...