cheap pens and a small note pad. Dunkin donuts receipts work great for note taking meds and pmh stuff. The cheap stethoscopes work fine. I haven't used my 150 dollar littman in months.
This is how mine are set up. I use 4 x 7 cards. Multi colored. I associate the drugs by colors, don't ask.
1: names of drug. Card number so I notice if one goes missing
2: adult dose with how long to administer and max dose
3: pedi dose
4: class
5: description of drug/how it works...
my company has been using computers for 3 or 4 years now. We use zoll rescue net or something like that. It's super easy to use after a week or two. We submit our reports as soon as we close out the call.Sending the call to dispatch immediatly after you are done with your PCR has saved my ***...
fallon, cataldo and Armstrong hire pretty much all the time. Armstrong is currently in the process of trying to get CAAS certified. Pro is only a full time gig but you get a ton of experience. It seems like they are trying to go in the all medic direction. Fallon seems to be hiring anyone. Call...
I have the basic patches but I like my mass patch better. I've only seen one person wear their nremt basic patch in mass and she was at a different company. I do like the old disco patch with the rocker. I would still wear a disco patch instead of the mass medic one. A lot of medics have a nremt...
Spanish and medical Spanish. I encounter Russian when I work on the ambulance more than any other language but my clinical site is an area with a lot of Spanish speaking people. Donde este el bano and una cerveza por favor doesn't help me in the ED.
10 is challengin to get but not impossible. I would have like to do more and my teacher would like me to have some more. If I don't get a couple more in the ED my teacher is going to put me in another OR for a week. As for IV's. My requirement is 75 by the end of my clinicals and I have 73 and...
alright, update. I got my 10 tubes. I went to extra days to get them. I only missed one tube and I used a miller blade on that one. I missed a tube in the ER this morning on a woman that looked easy. She was anterior and her stomach contents kept coming up. A traumatic arrest came in today too...
1. They are having a seizure, put something in their mouth so they don't choke.
2. Bloody nose, easy tilt the head back.
I'd rather have people do the stare of life instead.