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Ugh.. I've been out of hems game for a long time, is there any good reason to fly that low on a positioning flight?

I've been in this career a long time. I can't think of a single time off duty when I thought "damn I wish I could needle decompress this dude". I've only ever stopped at 1 crash, it was a rollover on the freeway and no one was there.. I was calling 911 while walking over and realized I didn't...

Fairly standard on tuition..

The direct entry MSN programs that I’m aware of will take your bachelors from another field and accept you into the program, but you’ll be earning a BSN as a part of the program. Nursing education machine baby.. The fact that I MUST take these 6 week classes on how to write papers for a year...

Being older definitely contributes because you have time management skills and drive that you’ve developed over the course of your life. I can’t speak to the difficulty of college in the old days, as my first college class was 10 years into my career in 2008, but other than my associates in...

cmon man, you know how nursing educators are.. Honestly, I am growing a strong dislike for the nursing education machine the longer this goes on. There is so much self-stroking nonsense that they pass off as “necessary” and I’m just sick of it. Mindless papers and endless discussion board...

You can thank our public school systems who PUSH college on our kids and the weakening of college coursework.

I had stepped back from my coordinator position to line firefighter at my last department. Drama kept happening and a local job posting for a shift captain position that would also be responsible for ems coordination (QI, protocol, medical director liaison, etc). I applied and got it and have...

I’m currently working on my second bachelors which is my RN to BSN and it is irritatingly stupid. The entire program is a series of 6 week classes with different names, but so far all of them have been exactly the same. We’re going to write a paper and submit it in chunks over the 6 week...

The "experts" on jh are arguing over that elevation, some saying 1700 agl.. I don't really know how to read those charts and don't care to learn, so I'm just sitting back and waiting

I believe the prevailing opinion on justhelicopters is a mast bump, looks like the tail rotor is intact but separated and there’s a blade missing off the main rotor head. Either way, terrible news..

There are so many variables here, including job location, benefits, personality. I'm 23 years into my full time fire/ems job. A few years ago I went to RN school with the intention of leaving the FD the second I could (I live in a state where the pension heavily penalizes you for leaving...

My experience in the ED with tele-neuro has been less than impressive. They basically redo the NIH stroke exam that we’ve already done, review the CT scan that a radiologist has already read and reported to the ED doc, and recommend or don’t recommend TNK based on criteria that we already...

I'm not an admin here, and even if I was - I wouldn't delete your posts or ban you, because I'm quite tolerant of others sharing their opinion, but like you, I call things out like I see them. You post your opinion, but then you vigorously attack any other opinion that doesn't conform to your...

Change healthcare/optum

I must say, I was quite impressed with the T1.. I love that the start screen asks for patient height and then calculates TV settings based on IBW, very nice feature.. Is the ASV mode really as awesome as they claim?

Our billing company figures it out for us, they calculate mileage too.. it's quite convenient. I've been with this same billing company with two different departments and have always found them to be fantastic and easy to work with

Respectfully - I hope you’re not as grumpy and cantankerous in person as you are on these forums. If you are, take a month off somewhere tropical, life is too short to be as angry and judgmental as you come across with your posts.

Good conversation on this already in the ems forum

It’s not a competition. You attempted to minimize anyone’s opinion who hasn’t pushed a cruiser. I merely pointed out that I have.