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I think you have "Focused Assessment" and "Rapid Assessment" confused here bud. ABC=Airway Breathing Circulation. In no way shape or form does "listen to lung sounds, check a pulse ox, check Blood Glucose, check pulse, check skin temp, and take a BP" fall into that category. Those are a...

My child was born about 6 months before I even knew I was going to go to be an EMT so I had no thoughts about it, but with my next child I might ask the OB to let me. It was a BLOODY mess, I'm serious, blood on the walls, ceiling, all over the doctor, bed looked like a butcher shop, but it was...

-Grocery Store (7 years) -Wal-Mart -IT admin for a 501c(3) -Cellular Telephone service technician -Radio DJ for a local station Currently a 911 dispatcher (sheriff,police,fire,EMS - county wide including 8 towns and a crap tone of rural area) and also a volunteer EMT-Basic on two...

The only real issue I can see would be if I were to stop, someone put two and two together that I work in EMS in some way/shape/form and I determine that I can't do anything and would leave. I would stay on scene until I could pass care onto someone at my level or above so I didn't abandon the...

You have no idea what rural is if the longest response time is 7 mins from a page. I'm a 911 dispatcher and also an EMT and where I live, response times in one town can be as fast as 2 mins from first page. There is one transporting ambulance in our county, and if we get a call to a town 22...

I carry gloves and a mask in the rear of my vehicle at all times. I've never had to use them, yet. Iowa has a really good protections of emergency services workers. IOWA GOOD SAMARITAN 613.17 Emergency assistance in an accident. A person, who in good faith renders emergency care or...

Does your company offer relocation services? I'm a volunteer right now as I live in a rural area and no hospital's will hire basics, just medics. I am trying to take my Medic ASAP, though.

Your driving record should so OWI test failure/refusal but not a conviction. Get an attorney, it's the only way you're going to get that off your record..

You're part of the service even if your volly. Grab a BP cuff and a steth and go to town on the vitals. If he doesn't like it let him whine and keep doing it. Let him go tell a sup that he is being a power hungry turd and get his own self in trouble for being a douche.

What I wan't to know is why the OP delivered a dose of epinepherine without being a certified emt or medic? Do you want to get sued? Epi isn't a drug to be used without knowing why you're using it and considering the indications and contraindications.

It's actually usually not the company that has issue with hiring you with a DUI on file, it's the insurance that denies the coverage as a liability.