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As someone who has seen the didactic for both programs, I am exempt from that thread. Practically speaking the only thing a paramedic is missing to be an RN is more disease pathology and clinical time taking care of more than one person for 12 hours at a time. What is a nurse missing...

Don't forget that all of those professions you listed have their roots in nursing. It used to be a nurse pushing all of those buttons, before it was a specialist. Nurses replacing paramedics?... Well I'm picking up the medic card so no emts will cry if I take their job... Everyone...

Looks like a great place for mosquito bites

BOTH OF YOU ARE WRONG. Palpate every time, unless your patient is so cachetic that you can SEE the intercostal spaces. This is a DIAGNOSTIC procedure, lead placement is of the utmost importance. Please don't teach new providers that you can visualize proper placement. Absolutely w...

don't all these stories end the same? 6 firefighters had to unwedge her from the door frame of the bathroom, yet you get to load the stretcher in the rig by yourself... meanwhile the urine is making the gravel stick to your boots like candied popcorn....

polydipsia, polyuria. I thought the same thing within the first few sentences. another clue would have been that the urine on the floor would be sticky enough to allow you to walk on the walls...

i use these for mouth breathers, who don't need an NRB or the bipap. We also use them transitionally before putting someone on an NRB

gah... i just finished 6 days on.... why would i want to go back?

So much blood that one side HAS NO ventricle and the tissue bank, knows your name...

The three rules of IABP timing: 1: Inflation occurs just before the dicrotic notch 2: ADIA \< DIA 3: ASYS < SYS

Finishing up day 5 and 6 with a balloon pump has been a great way to bust out the overtime. Maybe I'll ice the cake with an open heart recovery in the am!

Blood in the ICP tubing is always your worst day

Move the boob be as exact as you can. Diagnosis quality is not possible without anatomically correct electrode placement.

<----- newest open heart surgery recovery nurse at SMCW ICU

I have 1 hour to get to work for my final open heart recovery shadow. After I extubate this pt, I'll be solo to recover open hearts. My first balloon pump was this morning and I'm critical staffing from 11-7a tonight. Validation from your peers and coworkers tastes so sweet!

My first solo balloon pump 5 mins!!!

It's 700 more clinical hours on a 19 year old kid. And it speaks volumes more than the commitment it takes to get EMT-I.

wish i could sleep at my job

get your paramedic

2nd open-heart shadow. Complete. 1 more and I'll be flying solo on post op open hearts!