Recent content by tazman7

Sounds like the critical care medic we just hired that gave me a pt from a BAD accident placed on the backboard on her stomach. And couldnt give me a reason why she put her like that.

People need to stop transporting corpses and realize dead is dead. No point in giving family false hope. Id rather say sorry for you loss, than look in my rear view mirror and see the family blowing stoplights behind me hoping to see grandpa talk again one more time. Just my opinion. And yes...

I feel your pain, except I am more on the fire side of things than nursing. Been testing for 6 years, around probably 75 department tests... Same deal. Wont go into it any further but I feel your pain.

Interesting site. It shows its not all flowers and rainbows in the big cities like most think. I have heard numerous stories from a retired Chicago medic and it makes you kind of wonder why people still put up with the firefighter vs medic jargon.

No, I have paid for all of my education myself so far. Im just saying for the job we do and the level of responsibility we carry we should be paid a lot more than what we do. My cousin just got hired as an ED security guard and makes more $$$ an hour than I do... A friend that is a...

Im not going to blame myself for what I get paid. I am willing to do the education. Did I receive a raise with my Associates degree?? No...so your right, the system doesnt care about education and its sad, but its not MY fault. Like I mentioned before, we cant sign a pt off if we dont think...

There is nothing easy about treating and transporting, trust me. Im just simply saying that there are only so many things we can do for the pt out in the field. We cant perform surgery, we can only give a limited amount of drugs, and sometimes the only thing people need is time, so what do we...

I personally think that the paramedic program that I went through, as well as others that I have heard about, do need to have a few more prerequisites before you get into the paramedic portion of the program. I think that it would make things a lot more clear and give people a better...

In some of ouR paperwork it will give their job description before they retired or whatever. So if they are alert and the elderly mans paperwork says bricklayer, I will say something along the lines of: With hands as torn up as yours, you must have been a bricklayer... And they will get excited...

We can transmit. But as someone else said as soon as you get to the ed they do their own 12 lead and dont even pay attantion to ours. In the two years I have been at my current place of employment, I have transmitted hundreds of 12 leads and have never once had a doctor look at it because...

This is very true. Restraining people is a very touchy topic. That is why you should only doing when possible..... almost all of the time I just call LE- but sometimes I have to handle it myself.

Yeah I sometimes have to control my anger with some of these idiots and so far so good. But I refuse to let a pt hit/spit/kick/push me. Ill see if I can dig up one of those masks to try the next time...I think I seen one at the back of our airway cabinet with a bunch of dust on it.;)

In my experience I have found that if you use the MAD device instead of an iv, not only does it limit your exposure to "goo" it seems that they dont come out of their high as mad... I work in a town where I have given more Narcan than Normal Saline....(not kidding either) Here is how my...

Using a nrb mask to prevent spitting is actually in our protocols. Obviously you have to hook it up to oxygen 15 lpm to do this or if you didnt it would be the equivalent of putting a plastic bag over someones head.. I have only had to do this two times. And it was for a person that 5 cops...