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This thread seems so foreign to me. I work with 3 guys in their 60’s and 70’s, and they don’t describe the EMS of the past as an episode of MASH or something. Maybe it’s just different in my area, or they just never talk about it.

Where I work: In the field, our hierarchy is: paramedic over nurse (Assuming nurse is not Surface Transport or Pre-Hospital). At the hospital, nurse over paramedic. Both over EMT, medically speaking, although EMTs may have jurisdiction in an area over a nurse due to laws. In my experience...

The only cadaver labs I’ve done were for a college Anatomy course. Typically the course heads had a PhD/MD and then all of the lab assistants had a Master’s/PhD(c). We just did in depth review of each system. Tests were usually a walk around the room and there were pins in things and you had to...

The formula you indicated in the original post is the way I use to calculate it. I round down, based on the fact that some orders might include doing something if MAP increases over a certain number. For example: give atenalol if MAP is 90 or above. If MAP is 89.7, it is technically below 90...

There are other similar options where you can have both. You can volunteer in EMS on Saturdays and work M-F in a field that pays much more. You could also look into going to PA school or NP school and working in emergency. You could do something 90% similar and even more advanced and make 3-4x...

You guys most likely oxygenated the blood with CPR

There are also a lot of chemicals meant to prevent odors, which should not be placed in wounds.

I work with 2 people in their 70’s. You are too old when you can no longer adapt to changing situations or information.

Your management has made a series of glaring errors that show problems in though processes, which are unlikely to be fixed by training or education. Also: Secured firearm with training = good idea. Community gat = horrible idea.

To the OP: When you buy business clothes, buy something that can also be easily converted to funeral clothing and religious ceremony clothing. If you are in EMS long enough, you will get invited to other people’s kids baptisms and coworker’s (or their family’s) funerals. After you wear that...

Business dress. Period.

I don’t view it as a social expectation but rather as an ethical one. If you have people who rely on you for their care, you should continue to improve yourself and develop clinical expertise. This means continuing on to board certifications or areas of subspecialty within your field. There...

When I took EMT-B, I was also enrolled full-time at another college, I worked a full-time job 40 hrs a week and I worked a second, part-time job 10-20 hours a week. I don’t know how hard AEMT is, but Paramedic was 9/10 in terms of hours and 4/10 in terms of material. Nursing school was 6/10 in...

I legit work with 3 guys who have done that exact same thing.

Someone once told me that no one should be able to be an EMT or LPN longer than 5 years. As brutally harsh as that is, I don’t disagree with it.

Generally speaking, most first aid and BLS interventions off-duty are covered by Good Samaritan laws, assuming someone is in a crisis and you are assisting with that crisis. This isn’t usually true of ALS interventions, or interventions off-duty where a crisis does not exist.

Also, getting into medical school is often competitive, so, while they don’t care that you have an online degree, the person competing with you might have something more impressive. Most medical schools do wholistic applications and consider: who you are as a person, prior life experiences...

Medical schools will not throw out online degrees, they only throw out prerequisite classes that are completed online, since many have lab components which must be completed in person.

Most flight medic jobs hire the 1% of the 1%. You’re gonna need to be extremely over qualified, to the degree that you could make 5-10x as much money in another field with the same credentials.