first of all, welcome. I work for AMR in MA. Well, to answer your question, I can't. I can tell you my first day was ok. I never really had to prove myself. I work for a transfer company. You don't have to prove yourself to take some to a SNF from a hosp, or take someone to a dialysis tx. The only person you have to prove yourself to is yourself. I really don't care what other people think of me. You will not make a great EMT if you worry about what others think about you. What you need to worry about is what you can do differently every call you do, I don't care if it is just a call to take some to a doctor's appt. or a code. As far as what day in a life of an Emt-B will be: I start my day off with a ambulance check-out. I work with a medic so there is a couple of things I do that you probably won't see on a double;e basic truck. Then my partner and I are called on the phone to either post, or for a D/C. Sometimes we even do a 911 call. We work Tuesday - Friday 1100 to 2100, so most of our afternoons are dedicated to Hosp discharges. Usually our evenings are dedicated to ALS transfers. At any point in the day we can cover any one of our 911 contracts. We also have been dedicated to our 911 contracts in snow storms. As a double basic truck, we usually do only transfers. this ranges from hosp D/C, doctor appts, dialysis transfers, little no emergent SNF emergencies (trust me you will find out what that means), IFT psych transfers, to home runs. I love what I do even though we don't get paid enough. I am always learning, and I am always looking for better ways to do my job. I am always asking myself what I could have done better on that call. Well, sorry to go off on a tangent. Good luck!
