Recent content by Rin

It did result in me once tensely telling an EMT, "My glasses! Fix my glasses!" because I didn't want to interrupt compressions but they were about to fall into vomit. :eek:

A few more things to consider: Contacts dry out in the winter when the heat's constantly blasting. Glasses bounce off my face while doing compressions.

Some of those are overnight shifts, but yes. We have contracts with about 40 hospitals and 900 nursing homes. We basically have most of the county locked down, which includes a major metropolitan area.

Lol Kyle, is that you?

I had a young male classmate spring an erection while 3 females (me included) were practicing patient assessments on him. Poor kid was strapped to a backboard too :oops:

IFT 300K+ calls per year, about 8 runs in a 12 hour shift. Stations? SSM? Hah! As of they'd ever let us stop moving. Moral is...not good. If it was 911 we'd all be past burnt out long ago.

What everyone else said: keep the exam appropriate to their complaint. Now my question is, do you find you have the same problem when it IS actually necessary to deal with a female's private areas? For example, do you have a difficult time putting on EKG leads, listening to breath sounds, or...

I feel like khakis and polos have become too overused. It's the uniform from grade school to high school to every big box retailer.

There was a pool party...with intoxication...and smarmy people trolling around... I saw body parts I don't even have a name for :oops:

When your typical patients are 70+ years old with CHF, ESRD, and a host of other problems, "stable" isn't really saying much. Then there's the difference between what you're called for and what you find when you arrive. You would think SNF nurses could tell the difference between an emergent...

Update: Turns out almost everyone wore jeans, t-shirts, and departmental jackets. I saw one or two full-on uniforms, but no stormtroopers, sadly. Now the evening "social events" were another story entirely. I saw things I can never unsee... :eek:

They're definitely not fun situations, having to explain to a patient's family that their DNR is invalid. It's not even a complex form. It floors me that doctors etc can't be bothered to make sure they fill out such an important thing correctly. It's like a check box, a signature, and a date...

I'd have to work both. I have met hospice patients that do not have a DNR. Sometimes end-of-life patients are not ready to stop fighting.

If they request assistance, don't second guess them. Send help.

That's why they call us Technicians :'(