Recent content by CNAinFL

Good luck with your EMT-B test! Here is my perspective - your plan to bypass the traditional 2 year nursing waiting list is a good one. However, you might want to do LPN to Rn rather than Paramedic to RN - especially if you are staying in Central FLorida. From what I have seen, the job market...

All right, fair enough, let me rephrase that. Fire jobs are very very difficult to get around here and have been for some time, especially for brand new graduates with no fire experience. It is common for there to be at least a hundred applicants for each open position, from what I have been...

Check out Seminole and Valencia colleges as well; they may be cheaper than Central Florida Fire Academy. Fire jobs are IMPOSSIBLE to get around here, I know people who have been trying for several years. EMT jobs are not much easier to get in the Orlando area these days. The fire...

I'm a dude-ette. I like working in the medical field in general; I really enjoy emergency medicine, but I have a feeling that for right now I'd have a better shot at getting a job if I go into nursing. I am going to keep applying for ambulance jobs and checking back with the ambulance...

You mean me? Or the original poster? I am stuck here in Orlando in a lease until next June - not that I necessarily want to move, but if no jobs open up, I'll have to. In the meantime, I'm applying everywhere, I have no points on my record, I have my EVOC, I'm a CNA so I have previous...

The economy and job market are TERRIBLE in Central Florida. I'm a CNA working for a home health care agency. Their business is fairly slow right now, slower then they've ever seen it. I'm lucky I have several regular patients. One of the local hospital chains recently laid off a bunch of CNAs...

It stopped at 70. I passed. For another girl in my class - it stopped at 135. SHE passed!

emt equipment A watch with a second hand, so you can take people's respirations and heart rate. My class didn't provide BP cuff, stethoscope or eye protection. They did provide a HEPA mask which was required for us to ride along with the fire department.

Actually I rescheduled it for Friday, but anyway, as I mentioned in the original ppost - I am rereading my textbook and also a book of practice questions. I've been rereading the textbook for weeks now; I'm not trying to cram everything into two days of study. I'm just looking for any extra...

Any other thoughts? Anyone else? Taking the test in two days...any suggestions would be appreciated!

My concern is all the weird scenario questions - where there's usually two obviously wrong answers and two answers that both look correct. Although on the bright side, we had those all semester long in my EMT course and I think for the most part I have them figured out. Usually.

I am in Florida, and am scheduled to take the NREMT-B test this Wednesday. I'm re-reading my textbook, and on my teacher's advice, I got a book of practice tests from Jones Bartlett, which I'm finding very helpful. Any particular advice on what I urgently need to know for the test? I'm going...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/03/michael-odonnell-prisoner-escaped-ear Wow. That's something I never thought to worry about.

Good point there.

What does tenderness mean to you? Flowers...candy...long walks on the beach...oh, sorry, wrong kind of tenderness! In MY opinion it means pain, although I got a question wrong on one of my tests because apparently in my instructor's opinion tenderness and pain are not the same thing. Hmmph.