Got called out at 2am, two days before Christmas for a sprained ankle. (I PROMISE!!!) She was at a Christmas party and was making her grand entrance......her chief complaint was, and I quote, "I was getting my dance on and I fell off my shoe!!!" :wacko: :rofl: Needless to say, we did NOT...
We got dispatched out on a call on a FREEZING cold, rainy day and as I reached up to unplug my ambulance, my hand slipped off of hte wet plug and I caught the cord. The plug came FLYING out and SMACKED me in the eye. I had to call my area supervisor and let him know that I had just given...
I hated doing the ER hours. The EMT students got stuck doing the stuff that the nurses didnt want to do like....bed pans, vitals, and cleaning the rooms after the pts we discharged. :wacko: I do not want to work for a hospital based ambulance service.
In EMT-B school we had to do 5 12-hour shifts in the ER and then we did 2 24-hour shifts and a 12-hour shift on the truck. I like the 24s better than the 12s.