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Your school example isn't really apropos because that's a function of in loco parentis.

EMT is a high school level class. I took it while working full time and had no trouble.

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What exactly would refusing to be searched have accomplished? I think what you meant to say was "most people don't care enough".

15 seconds on the way out.

I haven't heard anything about this in RVA. You talking about Richmond, CA?

I ask to take BP on all of my patients, too. Psych or otherwise.

http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=40441 Ahem.

Why? I'm no lawyer but if I tell a patient "I've done xyz for you but you need to follow up with a physician," and they say ok and I document that they've said ok (presumably the folks in Chandler, AZ are getting a signature) where's the liability? Like someone said earlier this is just...

Just load it with as much jargon as possible. "We ran priority 1 to a difficulty breathing... when we got in the door the guy was tripodding and slightly cyanotic, satting at around 80 and capnography at 70 millimeters of mercury. We threw a non-rebreather on him with 15 liters and got him on...

Cap refill is important when assessing for shock in kids since BP is an unreliable measure - kids' BP will stay WNL right up until they crash. The way I learned it was 2 seconds is normal, 3 is compensated shock, 4 is uncompensated and 5 is irreversible.

I'm not sure I 100% trust that number, but it's what the thermometer said so it's what I wrote down. The person was sick, don't get me wrong, but not in any critical kind of way.

"I'm sorry ma'am. With pain that bad, I'm required to take you to the nearest hospital."

Two calls until it all goes to hell. :P It's cute. I'd carry it.

I took a temp yesterday for the very first time because the mom wanted to know. He had a nice little fever (104.5) but knowing that info didn't change any of the patient care decisions we made. The thermometer we used was just like the one I'd have at home if I was a parent.

Did your employer tell you this?

I've heard this - the bell is designed to hear lower frequency sounds - but in my experience if you're gunna hear it you're gunna hear it with either side and if you're not you're not gunna hear it period. Plus there's the whole forgetting to open the right side... find something that makes you...

Working. Signed up specifically so when my family asked if I had plans I could tell them with regret on my face that I was working. Plus doing a standby at a celebration with fireworks so I'll get the entire experience!

Around here professional EMSs require a year of EMT/driver experience before they'll consider you, so the volunteer squads are pretty popular. I put in an application and didn't hear back for a year, after I'd all but forgotten about it. The reason has nothing to do with who I knew, them not...