Recent content by Frozennoodle

The only certification that has ever given me an edge, other than required certs, has been the Principals of Ethics and Personal Leadership course I took and the subsequently obtained course-coordinator in. There was a hospital ER department that was hiring paramedics to work as paramedics in...

That's such a hard question to answer without knowing you, your motivation, your commitment level, and your educational background. So much of being a Paramedic is being able to be confident but knowing when you don't know and asking for help it's not funny. There are people who have worlds of...

You're exactly right, you get what you put in to your experience. If you sit in a corner and don't jump in, the staff will leave you alone. If you actively go around and help out in any way you can, they will roll with that too. i find the best way to help build trust with the staff in the ER is...

Definitely not splinting the flail chest anymore.

Administration at my company uses the term, "Medic," to differentiate us from the rest of the companies operations. "Susan works on the medic side," or," Does Steve work in billing? No He's a medic." Providers here refer to paramedics as medics and EMT's as EMT's.

They are for minor abrasions and burns where you don't want the dressing to adhere to the wound as others have said. They are not good for bleeding control but are good for preventing contamination of a burn or an abrasion. A dressing must be porous and sterile in the event of a bleed. The point...

The oropharyngeal airway, or OPA for short, is a basic airway adjunct that assists your manual airway maneuvers, think jaw thrust and head-tile chin-lift, in keeping the tongue out of the patient's oropharynx. The OPA does not prevent gastric contents, saliva, or blood from passing through the...

Thanks!

I'd have to look up the difference between security management and homeland security. I assumed that was essentially a disaster mangement degree based on the courses I've seen.

I think that I'll probably wind up doing that just because, like you say, it has the most flexibility. I would probably be more personally interested in homeland security but I can just as easily grab a graduate certificate in that and combine it with my undergraduate degree and be just as...

Some type of government job or directorship but I agree that it doesn't seem to be the ideal route especially since that's what my undergraduate degree is in.

How so?

That's exactly the argument that is used. Transport times don't justify its use. Our protocols require us to sit on scene at least 10 minutes prior to transporting a patient to stabilize them so maybe that's why they think that shivering will be an issue. It's also funny because we have the...

They do have a support unit with extra stretchers to move the patients over and free up the transport unit.

EMT's make around 16.40 and Medics start at about 21.20.