Hey there. I'm new to the forums so I guess welcome to me? I'm an anxious person - in my own mind and decisions that is. Since I graduated high school in 2015 I've always been obsessed with the idea of a career in the emergency service field.
I've sat on the idea for a few years to see if I...
Hi everyone,
I was a EMT for about two years and paramedic for about one year in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a private company. We did 911 contract based along with critical care transfers and basic transfer homes and hospital to hospital. I then left to work in South carolina now...
For anyone interested in getting off the truck, my ED is hiring EMTs as "Technical Nursing Assistants." Pay starts around $16 and up with great benefits.
Current available shifts as of 10/9/17
24hrs / week 1500-2300
32hrs / week 1500-2300
32hrs / week 2300-0700
32hrs / week 0700-1500...
In Tennessee, there are rural counties with a very small ambulance service with no first responders. In the event that all ambulances are unavailable, patients are left waiting a long time for a unit to become available.
In one county, the ambulance service is struggling and the county refuses...
Hey everyone,
How do you go about your refusals ? What kind of speech do you give your pts, let's do they hypothetic trauma and non-traumatic. This is what I usually say in the end when I type my narrative if they are A/Ox4 and competently refusing . I live in MA and certain substances have...
Not sure if this is the best forum section for this, so please feel free to move it, but I have a question about emergency childbirth. A lot of mothers and doctors think there are benefits to not instantly clamping and cutting the umbilical cord. I haven't done enough research on the issue to...
Brand new petition on Change.org, what do you think?
https://www.change.org/p/fcc-fcc-president-tom-wheeler-the-us-needs-national-standards-for-emergency-service-communication