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  1. sarahharter

    Getting along with other services

    i have worked for for many services. there are some services where we did not get along with our mutual aid services. the service i work at currently and have been at for awhile acutally works nicely with our other services. one example is we had an mva with rollover and entraptment. i was...
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    Why we never run...

    i dont run cuz im a clutz from hell and i trip over myself just walking can you imagine what would happen if i ran?!
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    What should have been done?

    i agree with many things stated on the posts above. i however do have some concerns. where i run, FR are not allowed to do pt assessments and have to be with an EMT or MEDIC. They were pretty much there to assist the EMT and drive. I also believe in ALS being dispatched initially for pretty much...
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    14 year old on traffic patrol

    that is funny. but i have to admitt when i go on calls i jut turned 23 and people ask me if i am on a ride along and want to be an emt which sucks cuz i now when i put my hair up even my capt said i look like im 16 or 17.
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    Messed up calls.

    i just dont understand people. i always stop for mva's and have had a couple of times where yes i have a whacker car and people see my light bars, emt license plate and stickers and stop my car for help. i was always told i have a duty to stop to my level of cert but i also feel that i have an...
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    EMS Rules ( The ones you don't learn in school)

    never drink a 32 oz coffee at the begging of yoiur shift - free or not - cuz you are going to be holding in that coffee for about ten hours. never start baking cookies in the middle of your shift cuz trust me you'll never get to eat them however the police and medics that come to visit your...
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    Armed forces

    i am a med tech in the usaf and it was the best choice i ever made. the school was great. i love the medical field so i loved it. i have been in for almost four years now and have been stationed in a couple of places i am in delaware now and there are so many diff things that i can do here it is...
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    things you will never live down

    ok lets just start with im a clutz and well very accident prone. i have had my moments and well this one was the best of them all and my company still brings it up esp. during evoc classes. ok we got a call and i started to go responding and the truck would not start. than the lights started...
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    so embarrassing!!!!!

    ok well my funny just happened to be me being taken in by my own truck!!! the first time i was sick i knew i was, i usually get pneumonia at least once per year if not more. well i also have asthma, so lets just say i get really sick. well i am trying to ignore that i cant breathe all day. i...
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    Try Not to say....

    nice that helped end the crappiest shift ever!
  11. sarahharter

    just got hired

    hey thats great! congrats! i did transport for awile and i thought that it gave me a chance to refine and work on my skills for when i was running 911!:P
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    Follow these rules to keep EMS personel Happy

    thats F@#king awsome showed that to my partner and he laughed his a$$ off!:P
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    Are You Kidding!!!

    oh there is going to be payback!!! just have to think of something that i can do that would be payback enough!!! and yeah me she left the hospital!!!!! total save!
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    Are You Kidding!!!

    Okay lets start with i am a little, well small person. and what i mean is i may be tall like 5'9 but i only weigh in around 120 lbs. and yes i just put my weight out for everyone to see. any who......i got a call the other day that made a bunch of firefighters and medics almost pee their pants...
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    Boot Blousers

    okay well i hate to blouse my bdu's and being in the usaf guard and reserves i came up with this and i use it on the truck to , i took the strings out and put blousing straps through the holes that the strings were through and sewed the ends together and well they are now perm. bloused , never...
  16. sarahharter

    Useless

    okay i have been an emt-b for about four years and some months know and i have done alot of stuff that has determined whether a pt lived or not. where i live we runa bls and als truck and you don't always get als, so you have to be able to do what ever you can to get your pt alive to the hosp...
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    National Registry Practical EMT-B

    this was my first time!! it was about three years ago know but i had no idea of what to expect!!! i worked my but off and i passed and did good on the written and passed practicals first time through!!! its hard but achievable and because i did it through the military it was a short very intense...
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    Air National Guard Medical Field.

    4n0x1 - AMSA i am 4n0x1 in the usaf reserves and know the air guard!!! the course was awsome and i like the work that we do!!! to all who don't know a 4n0x1 means you are a aerospace medical services technition or amsa! i like it i got my nremt-B and i was able to challenge the lpn so know i...
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    National Registry Practical EMT-B

    nremt-b okay itook nremt-b and we had practicals! we had to pass the practicals before we took the written. there were basic stations like; airway managment with nasal and oral airways; bvm, and mouth to mask; shock managment, ked, back boarding, splinting, tracting splinting, a trauma and a...
  20. sarahharter

    Is it easier to get hired for a transport service?

    transport and 911 YES!!! i work full time for a transport service and part time for two 911 services and volunteer for about three 911 services. it was alot easier to get into the transport than into the 911!!! tranports suck but they give you time perfecting the basics and when i work the 911...
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