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I've been struggling with this for a few months and could use some unbiased opinions. Of course I can't tell all the details in a public forum, so if you think you could help me more specifically send me a private message and maybe we could email about this issue. I have been in EMS since...

I have been a PHRN for about 5 years - worked as an ED nurse prior for 10 years. I currently work in EMS, night shift, in a city of about 150,000 in the Midwest. I am Muslim and have been more than happy to discuss it with anyone who asks but I certainly do not push my beliefs on others. I am...

I'm doing a three hour lecture on OB to a class of about 20 paramedics in a couple of weeks. Usually I do mostly skills stuff to EMT-basics so this will be my first "big" lecture and I want to be really prepared! The main lecturer gave me his outlines, powerpoints, materials to cover, etc...

I'm going to the Natl Assoc of EMS Educators 4 day Instructor Class next week in TN (Just outside Nashville). Anyone else planning on being there?

I love the website postsecret.com - I've been reading it for years and saving secrets from it. I have thousands saved. Here are some EMS related secrets I can remember offhand. I'm sure there are others relating to medicine/fire service/police/etc I could post too but these stuck out in my memory.

Maybe this doesn't happen quite as much on the back of an ambulance because you don't have quite as long with your patients, but in the ER I am always asked lots of questions by my patients who may not be as sick as some of the others. When I'm going to be in a room for awhile, starting an...

I went to Haiti in September to work as a nurse (I'm an ER nurse in Central IL) and needless to say, well, there was no EMS system there. The clinic I worked at had an "ambulance" that was a guy pushing a wheelbarrow and making ambulance noises. The hospital had no air conditioning (it was...