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Your best and most reliable resource in the field is always going to be parents,siblings or care givers. Find a pediatric assessment class,most providers recieve very little training when it comes to dealing with peds let alone how to do a proper pediatric specific assessment.

Every ER is a little different even when it comes to the most basic of duties. Some departments use thier techs more like traditional hospital CNA's while others look for more of a field style provider. Both my former and current ER managers were big on techs with street experience. As was...

Most ER managers are very busy and hiring anyone including techs is not thier favorite thing to do. The screening process at most hospitals is set up so that only the most highly qualified applications are seen by the ER manager. Its not uncommon to see one hundred plus applications for tech...

Just accepted an ER tech position at Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville,CA. I have been trying to get a tech position in the area for 18 months and all the waiting has paid off. If your looking for an ER tech position all I can say is patience and persistence are what your going to need the...

To be honest I kinda lost track myself,like that never happens. I think my point was that if you want to be paid better than the average basic or medic you might have to be willing to pursue a position on the inside. This can be done without additional education (EMT to ER Tech) but the...

No but if you want to be rewarded for the time and effort that it takes to obtain a quality education it is. Then you take a little of your free time to give back to your community by helping to educate the providers you rely on. It sounds ultra simplistic but if you think just on the local...

Put your big boy pants on calm down and lets go thru it again. Increasing the educational pedigree of medics is not going to earn them more pay in MOST cases. MOST employers would laugh at you if you EXPECTED them to pay more than what they can get by paying now. MOST pre hospital EMS workers...

Chase who said anything about medics, I was talking aout going tech to RN as a way to make money in emergency medicine.

Why not do both?

Really 50k, is that with a degree? For every ten medics how many of them will end up ever be non fire making 50k without massive OT,

So the mills should keep cranking out providers into what in most areas is a saturated job market. Alot of these peopke never even end up with a job in pre hospital EMS. Almost everyday someone is on this site trying to get help finding work. Yes I will stick to trucking,getting paid 97k a...

There is no money to spend,if there was they would be spending it. How about this,why dont we do better with the money we have before asking for more?

These younger people coming into the field need to be aware of what awaits them in the real world. Low wages,crappy benefits,poor working conditions and fellow workers with horrible attitudes is just the start. I highly suggest a bypass around field EMS and a path into the higher levels of...

So your education deserves better pay,got it. As far as having leverage to bargain,last time I checked there were not 100 or so RN applicants per job. The proof to my arguement is that when you have a medical emergency in most developed areas of the country you dial 911 you get help. Now the...

Really I should have said there is no money to show and in the future its only going to get worse. When the press is giving mass coverage to the bodies piling up on the streets due to the lack of education of the nations EMS providers you might get some change. You need to show proof that change...

Like it or not they actually do for the way the system is currently set up. Replacing or adding additional education is not something that sits high on the list of things to do for most people. What would happen to the people that get displaced because they are not able to advance their...

Your thoughts on PA's suprises me. Maybe it was a WA/OR thing but in my level one you couldnt swing a bag of saline without hitting a PA. For years my personal providers have been PA's. Yes I know they work under the supervision of an MD but patients dont always know that. My observations...

My experience has been that as patients pass thru the emergency department its possible to get a snap shot of how our health care system is working. For example are we seeing a larger number of chronically ill patients in our inner city area due to lack of available services or is it that some...

Most of us who are involved in health care know that people will often wait until the last minute to seek treatment even when early treatment is readily available. This of course is why our ER's are bulging at the seams with people that would have been better treated at a doc in the box or a...

Never meant to adress you in a condescending manner,I assume we all have mutual professional respect even if we share different views. My time is valuable and I would not take the time to participate in these discussions if thought I would easily win all the battles. Good to see you have...