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The 4 summers and 6 winters i spent working at camp was far and away, the best job i ever had... Can't do camp once you have to get a grown up job.

My large urban system of 138 medics has 3 MDs (1 primary and 2 assistants). I know my three very well, but i think much of that is due to the fact that we are based out of a teaching county owned level I, with a strong EM and EMS fellowship and residency program. All of our new medics have to...

I am taking a Community Paramedic program through Hennepin Technical College and we have a couple guys from Bonner County EMS in Sandpoint taking the class with us via iTV and they seem like pretty decent guys who have their heads screwed on straight. Gotta appreciate a service that is looking...

I think sales experience is a huge plus. You learn to talk to people and you really have to have a salesman inside of you to succeed in this field.

I took the Maryland critical care course earlier this year and am taking classes to get my community paramedic certification now and i got the "why don't you just go to PA school" from my wife. I told her it is because i can't do algebra, but secretly, it is because i like being the smart kid...

This is a pretty comprehensive demo of the PowerLOAD system that was done for our service. It's 10 minutes long, but worth the watch if you have unanswered questions about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aov_QI8H5SU

We use SafetyPAD which is made by OPEN Inc. I really like this program. It creates a streamlined process for charting that is highly check box driven, with option for narrative. This satisfies our reporting requirements to the State and County and is a decently agile platform. The inerts...

https://mndot.adobeconnect.com/_a827349870/p88364841/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal This presentation is an hour long, but John is an excellent presenter and provides a good amount of valuable information. I haven't watched this entire presentation, but he is outstanding to...

Although it doesn't fit exactly, When I interviewed for my first EMS job, I was interviewed by 2 guys who each had a lazy eye. One has a lazy left eye and the other had a lazy right eye. On top of already being pretty nervous about the interview, that was the topping on the cake.

In case anyone wants to know what $1,000,000 worth of PowerLOAD's looks like... Installs start this week...

Not that i condone theft but... A box of nice nitrile gloves from hospital fits really nice under the head end of your stretcher. I also will announce that i am commandeering a box from hospital if i manage to kill a box during a shift... If you have a labor union, you could use them as a...

We understand EMS. Law Enforcement understands Law Enforcement. Fire understands taking cats out of trees. We each have our niche and generally speaking, we do our jobs correctly and appropriately. Have police officer acted maliciously? Yup. Have EMS and Fire personnel acted...

My QA group has run into this issue. We only transport critical lab values, and turf vanilla abnormal labs to a BLS service. Its difficult to bill a government payer for abnormal lab values and any minor complaint you can get from the patient increases you ability to bill exponentially...

It sucks but you may have to take two weeks off and just suck it up and take a drive. I took my CCEMT-P in February and drove from the snowy white north, 1,000 miles south to Fort Worth and did it at CareFlite. I loved the course and the challenge it provided me professionally. The other...

Here is a little background, which I will use as a basis for my opinion. I work in a Major metropolitan service that provides services to 14 different municipalities that have a resident population of about 800,000 and a weekday population of 1.2 mil. Our 135 full time paramedics operate 7...

I think that the idea of getting rid of the EMT-Basic level would debilitate those agencies who are not urban and suburban. Minnesota, a state of roughly 5,000,000 people has roughly 300 licensed ambulance services. Of those, i suspect less than 25% of those are licensed at the Advanced Life...

It's really technical and complicated, but essentially, our hospital (Hennepin County Medical Center) is a corporation of Hennepin County (similar to the relationship between the USPS and the federal gov't). We operate as a hospital based service that serves 14 municipalities with BLS police...

My Service is hiring up to 12 Paramedics to work in our busy urban and suburban environment service. The benefits are some of the best, pay is the best in the state, equipment is excellent and care is aggressive. Shifts are either 2 Twelves and 2 eights or 4 tens, either way, it is a...

$85 is a deal. I pay $50 a month to be on the union...

Weird, possibly post mortem, stain in the corner...