Good luck in your journey. I can't believe I'm only a month from being done with school. Some of these people on here can give you a lot better advice than I can, but at first school is going to seem like it's super easy. Just wait, it gets a lot harder, especially if you have a full time job as...
I got into it because I didn't have anything else to do. I didn't know anything about the job, and I thought it would just be something to get by at the time. I fell in love with it during EMT school, and now I'm about to be a paramedic, and have loved all of it.
In Arkansas, (I thought everywhere) you can't do any clinical time while your getting paid to do work at an Ambulance service. I may be confused on that, but that's how I thought it went.
Where I'm at I'm with a paramedic, so really the only time that I use the stethoscope is when they want to confirm something, or I just feel I want to listen. IMO as an EMT you really don't need a fancy scope, at least in my area, because you have you and a paramedic. If your going to be the one...
Next week starts week 5 for us. Its been ok so far. We got all of our IVs and Intubation check offs done. We did some basic rhythms and such and ran some slow mega codes. This was the part that i'm glad i had already learned that stuff before I came to class or I would probably have been lost by...
Yesterday was our first day of class. We watched some long drawn out history of EMS. Some of it was pretty interesting, but for the most part it was pretty boring. We start on airway stuff tomorrow, and I can't wait for the year to get going pretty good.
Our service now doesn't have them, but the company I worked at before did. I greatly appreciate the autopulse. The company that I worked for that uses them has one of the highest resuscitation rates in the US. Not saying that thats directly due to the autopulse, but I'm fond of it myself.
On day 4 of 7.
Just sitting around playing black ops.. I know I should be in bed, because we're up on transfer rotation, but playing xbox is just so invigorating.
My arkansas card is a really thin paper. The words are rubbing off on it. It always sticks to the bottom of my drivers license in my wallet. And my Missouri Card, they just had me print it off from my email, so you know how that looks :\ .. National registry is the best looking one out of them all.