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Yes events conspired as I stated. I would make little mistakes on calls since everyone is new at one point or another and does these thing and i elaborated that i had a long gap between practicum and becoming certified. No patients were harmed in my care. I even handled quite a few pretty sick...

First off I'm posting this for mostly therapeutic reasons and to get stuff off my chest. I'm not asking for people to flame me for doing something wrong as everyone was once new and should be given a chance and everyone learns differently from different preceptors as well as learning at...

All I can say is good luck getting on you'll need it It's also all ALS When I did my practicum there a lot of people seemed to hate AHS so I think it is worse now but who knows

At least you have an encouraging partner...I lost a job recently because of my skills not growing to mastery within a month pretty much....dumb partner. Anyways here's what to do. practice locating your own brachial pulse in your arm then you'll know exactly where to put the stethescope. then...

Great post thanks for the advice

I have no regrets and wouldn't do anything different but how would you feel if that happened to you? Keep in mind I got hired...then the offer withdrawn...and i've applied for the position 4-5 times afterward with no response...

While I agree I sort of disagree too. I had an interview somewhere and they asked if I had been fired from somewhere before and I thought honesty was the best policy too and I told them i was once for talking on a cell phone while I worked in a warehouse. I got the job then the company...

I know this may come off kind of harsh but if you're only applying for Calgary and have no experience [i'm assuming anyways since you are only telling about how you apply there] Why should they hire you when they have so many applicants who work rural, volunteer, and do other stuff. If you do...

I'm from Canada though but I hear what you're saying.

Thanks for the response friend, Do you think they would consider me if I worked at an ambulance service as an EMR for a year and just getting my EMT now?

do you think in say 4 or 5 years they will still look for people? I will have my EMT-A certification here in canada in about a week or so but hoping to do paramedic the following year here, unless they pay for it down there if you're an EMT-A??

Are you an EMT or an EMT student?

Here's a good one I had on my practicum So we get a call for a "omega" response....yes I said Omega lol I won't give too much clues as to what dispatch said cause it will ruin the story So we get there theres 5 cops surrounding one guy with crutches. They wouldnt let him go inside his...

Beat me to it lol

Came in as an Overdose...k cool whatever. PT's friend meets us at the door and tells us he freaked out on mushrooms and felt like he needed to punch him in the face during the endeavor. Cool were not there to judge just to help. So we go through into the house and I see blood stains on the...

whoa thats intense. thanks for your concern. I knew this was a lost cause though the second I saw him plus the pads were on him right away and no shock was advised every time :( Again though amazing experience and will take what I learned for the next code and will do way better at it next time...

Brilliant post. Thanks a lot thats awesome. I am sooo grateful for the experience it gave me but also a bit sad mixed with happy that i've now faced one of the toughest EMS challenges. I'm sure I'll be fine but what you said was awesome thanks

Thanks everyone. Yeah I had a good talk with someone about it last night and he was basically a really sick kid and I don't wanna go into too much details about what he had but the talk I had with someone basically had me convinced that he might have been too sick anyways and it was just his...

So I worked my first code yesterday, I wasn't running the code but we run a 3 person truck and I was the second attendant and our unit was first on scene. I thought we did really well but the individual didn't come back. It was particularly hard for me because the individual was an 11 year...

My best advice is to talk to someone at a place every so often and sort of harass them and keep tabs on them to see if they're hiring. I got hired at a volunteer service a year ago probably because I called them 3 times in 2 months and sent them all my required info [class 4, registration...