If the patient consents to allowing you to take vital signs, I'd agree. If the patient refuses, then there's not much you can do.
Meh, pretty sure I've grumbled similar complaints when I was an EMT (even tho I was tryna be a hose monkey myself)... especially when dealing with LA County Fire at times....
I’m certain I’ve referred to them in much more, um, colorful expletives than hose monkeys. I do call my fire buddies nozzles.
Gravity never loses...the best you can hope for is a draw.I fell out of my boyfriend's hammock and hit the back of my head on the floor. Instant headache.
Gravity never loses...the best you can hope for is a draw.
And that's all I'm going to say about you falling out of your BF's hammock.
Seirende has a potential point here. The patient can't consent (or refuse) if you don't ask... and by that, I mean if you don't establish that patient is (or is not) able to consent, you simultaneously can't establish that the patient can be treated under implied consent. I had a patient that had some very interesting delusions refuse a procedure that I needed to do. This patient was able to answer the appropriate alert/orientation questions. Therefore, despite the delusions, I couldn't do the procedure. What that did kick off, though, was a capacity evaluation. I don't know the outcome of that as the patient was no longer under my care (my shift was well over and I was home for sure) by the time the capacity evaluation was done and the patient was no longer in the ED by the time returned for my next shift.
