Drug test
First let me say even though right now I am a volunteer we do get drug tested at reandum times. And at the college I go to we get drug tested before we start our clinical's. I think everybody should be drug tested and if they are using anything illigal or any other mind altering drug...
I am sorry that I am about to take this in a different direction but I am about to do my first OR rotation in my clinicals to get my intubations. I was reading these post and I just have to ask. I was trained with only the Mac & Miller and I am just as comfortable using either one. But how do I...
We have CE hours here for part of us. However, I am getting tired of being a volunteer, I think. I love being an EMT. I just hate it here. I'm thinking about quitting EMS until I get out of school and then just go whereever my job takes me. But, I don't want to hurt my chances of getting a paid...
I enjoy making jewlery and cake decorating. I also like to go fishing; however since i started to school it seems like all i do is study and work. What is free time?
In my opinion some of these volunteer groups need to wake up & realize that they need to run paramedics on their trucks even if they have to pay them. I am not trying to step on anybodies toes by saying this I am a volunteer basic & a paramedic student. However, I think they need to realize...
I agree with rydrider that the they do need to go als because I volunteer for one while I'm going to school,as an emt-b & the first thing we do if we have anything that amounts to anything is call for the the paramedics from the next town.Which helps me because then I get to go with them as a...
Suze,
The quicker you get up after the surgery & start walking the better off you will be. I had mine done at 7:00 am & I made the nurses get me up at 2:00 am that night when I woke up from everything. Also the more you walk the better off you will be. A site that will help is www...
A well trained volunteer can save a life the same as a well trained paid EMS personel if we learned what we were supposed to have in class and were certified. Then we both have the same capabilites that the other one has so stop arguing as to which one is the best. Yes, I am a volunteer right...
I Am doing a paper in Psychology on Parkinson's disease and I need some ideas on how I can support somebody with the Parkinson's disease in the EMS field.