Recent content by NEMed2

Ow ooowwww

Check what the company/organization recommends. Some require steel toe. Otherwise, go for comfort/functionality. If you like what you have, stick with it.

If you just started class then I wouldn't worry so much about this right now, you're instructor will go over it, you will practice on your friends until they are sick of you and you will become proficient at it until you're first priority call in the back of an old ambulance down a bumpy road...

My BGL dropped when I was observing in an ED for my basic class. Thankfully, I knew what was happening & the tech I was shadowing took care of me. We don't get meal breaks, bathroom breaks, etc. I got to know the guy that runs the 7-Eleven fairly well when I first started.

Every time I move my head my neck makes that great painful grating noise. I shouldn't have settled that MVA case so quickly. I'm told I will be in some level of pain for the rest of my life. Fantastic.

There are already facilities/organization stating they will be requiring employees to get the vaccine. Supposedly, ff people refuse, they will be fired. So far, I haven't heard that in CT. I'm not decided on getting either. I never have gotten a flu shot, and ***searching frantically for...

Sounds pretty awesome.

I have 2 now, both on my lower back & plan on getting more. They both represent something that means a lot to me and a part of my life that I always want to remember. All of mine can/will be hidden with a t-shirt. For those of you who don't like them, don't look at them, don't ask me about...

Where was this medic when they were instructing you to move the pt to the other BLS ambulance? In your original post it sounded like the medic was on scene, which completely changes the situation. I run on a BLS ambulance and if a call is ALS we either intercept en route or meet ALS on...

Services that don't take proper documentation seriously are setting themselves up for huge lawsuits. As are the EMTs. But that doesn't mean that all vollys can't write a pcr.

How I love the debates about gloves & PPE. :P I generally put my gloves on as I am walking up to the pt. That being said, do I wear them every time? No. Do I sometimes take them off after I get into the ambulace, only to take a bp or provide some care that doesn't require my touching body...

Wow. Subpar charting and enforcing standards has nothing to do with volly vs paid. I know many paid EMTs that can't write a pcr to save their lives, many due to learning disabilities. It doesn't have to do with their pt care, but they can't write a pcr worth anything. If you can't write a...

I had a bunch of those but the clips kept breaking so I would lose them. But they were free, so I can't complain.

That is our moto as well; except its wait a minute. Ahh New England. Or, we also have 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

You can have it. By the time it is dry enough to mow the lawn its more like bailing a field. I tried today and was caught in a torrential downpour. At least it cooled me off a bit. Last month we had rain almost every single day for the entire month. It got very old very quick.