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I am a product of St. John's. It's taught by Bob Page, and it's so good it makes other paramedic programs jealous. It's an intense program and you need to be committed to pass. Classes were two full days a week. The mornings were didactic and the afternoons were generally scenarios. He...

I think I have a toilet or five to scrub tonight.

It's an easy test. In fact, it's entirely too easy. I had harder exams in high school. You'll only set yourself up for failure if you get nervous about it. It also helps to think about it this way... There are a lot of total idiots that have passed that test.

There is an agency, that shall remain nameless in the southern part of the country that has employees working anywhere from 12 to 72 hours at a time without a break. My first year with them, I had to work all the holidays. It was already hard enough on me at 30 years old to stay awake for 24...

My husband is a paramedic as well and we have been working at the same company for years. The major difference between your situation and our situation: we're adults. Our personal life is personal, and our professional life is professional. You two need to grow up.

More chick drama. :rolleyes: Be the adult and ignore him. It's not paying your bills, so either ignore it or leave.

Look, the class took 120 hours to complete. I bet it takes longer to get through school janitor orientation. Of course there's an over abundance of EMT-B's. Heck, you can't sling a dead cat without hitting one. So instead of looking for these bogus little certs to attempt to prove your...

Why not enroll in a nice paramedic program that offers a swell degree? Basics shouldn't be doing any invasive skills, period. I'm sure I'll be dead and buried before this job moves past the mentality of "how fast and easy can I be trained to do a bunch of harmful stuff to people." Alas...

No, you're not. I hadn't had time to reply. You're talking about pushing drugs designed to lower the blood pressure, now you can't obtain a blood pressure, and no one thinks they should pull over and shut it down? What if this medication rendered your patient nearly pressure-less? If you're...

I took Bob's class, so I have the actual CD's he made for us with lung and heart sounds. :P We had a simulator for lung sounds, but the t-shirt over a speaker will work as well as long as you have the volume down really low. Bob made us listen to the lung sound simulator while he blasted...

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Pearson-Health-Professionals-Drug-Guide-20092010/9780135076071.page This book rocks so hard that I carry it at work. I'd carry this over a field guide. It's worth the cost.

We use them. I just started with my new company almost a month ago. It took me three or four reports to get into a quick groove with them. I'm pretty OCD with reports, so I love this program. I have 10 screens to get through, however some of them have one or two pieces of information to...

I work nights. Sunlight is one of my natural enemies. If I absolutely HAVE to be up when it's light out, I prefer cheap sunglasses after having my $150 Raybans jacked from the ambulance while I was at work. Some people just suck.

Nepotism rocks! It's one of the big reasons I'm my current job. You see, at my old job, there was a dispatch Captain that was, well, the BOMB. That man could come into 25 trucks running across each other to get to emergencies with more emergencies pending and within five minutes have cleared...

Well, darn, my station just had one. We upgraded from a BLS to an ALS service yesterday and had an assist class a few weeks ago. I'm new to my area, but I'm pretty sure I'm in Eastern PA (I moved to take one of these new paramedic jobs.) Have you looked on the EMS federation website? I'll...

Yeah... NO. It's hard to tow the legal straight and narrow when you're big concern is your bottom dollar so you can continue to pay your employees minimum wage and make the payments on your Lexus. I'm a not-for-profit type service girl myself. I'm careful with billing and money inside the...

Pumpkin seeds with the shells. I eat them all day, all night, all the time. They're good for you and high in iron. The shells are high in fiber. Incidentally, I hate sunflower seeds.

I like being the boss of chaos. It was also a pre-requisite to paramedic which has made me the ultimate boss of chaos. I also love a good crisis when it's not my own.

It's hot, but not as hot as some of the British accents I've heard.

I have a drug guide that I carry. I also have my own field guide that has information on the drugs in my system, unusual 12 lead information (such as the v-tach criteria), and assorted phone numbers and facility door codes. There is no ACLS or GCS type stuff in my guide. I take myself for...