Recent content by H33

Poor pay, cold weather.. I slightly exaggerate, we are just over a year old so only a little, we are primarily a fixed wing ALS medevac service, We are currently looking for Two RN's to join us here in Anchorage for flight duties, we also are looking for several EMT's for ground Ambulance...

Remotely Based Flight Company seeking experienced Paramedics for flight medic positions. Full time, One month rotations, travel expenses paid, Health, Dental, Life.

So alas, I am not aware of goat lab, I had my emt going in and took the combat life saver deal, but medic was not my thing, I don't recall the fmf in my unit mentioning a goat lab so perhaps it was before his time, or he thought we would give him crap about it, not certain, though the next time...

Interesting, still not certain I see the point in a new federal law over it, but I do see your point, I never really thought my expectations on licensing were different then others, so thanks for that.

Don't have enough free time to read all of this but my thoughts from what I have is that the idea of "buffing" is that it would add a lot of unknowns into the equation. I typically love all the help that I can get to show up, for the most part, but I am not certain that I would be comfortable...

The two states I have worked in for medic you show up with registry, proof you went to an accredited school. They run a background check, call any state you have been licensed in before and you hand them a check they hand you a license. Same day service if you do it in person, perhaps different...

So reading this act I don't seem to understand what the point is. Admittedly my service was Corp and had nothing to do with medic, but my understanding is that now medics all take registry anyhow so what is it that this is supposed to do?

I don't disagree.. but true it is.. south alabama 12 trucks 5 counties. 10 of which ALS

I don't have any particular grudge with volunteer EMS, years ago before I decided that I hated being poor I would even give a little of my time in such an endeavor, what kills me here is two fold one we get plenty of licensed experienced EMT applicants but alas we hire almost exclusively...

Paramedic, ALS service, and our only option for pain meds is the whirly bird.

Agreed on refusal. If I am going to write a report your coming to the hospital. - if I can help it.

Much to my sorrow while our state allows pain control by several means it does not require it, so alas we do not carry it. It's quite nice when we average 60 mile 911 transports.. ma'am bite down on the leather strap and curse if you feel the need..

I did not even know it was still a thing in my state, had not seen one in years, but here I sit at a service that does not seem to hire EMT's, we have paramedic and driver or AEMT and driver and that's it, And this is not IFT or Volunteer this is straight up single provider 911.

Does anyone else still have ambulance drivers? I don't mean EMR's, EMT's I mean cpr and an EVOC class.

We can, Sometimes we even do. Oddly this year they put benadryl in our nausea vomiting protocol as in with, our instead of zofran. I have actually tried it a few times and had good results.