best advice you have ever had or given

S

sneauxpod

Forum Lieutenant
Messages
104
Reaction score
0
Points
0
So im a fairly new medic and Im just wondering what advice you could give me that has helped you throughout your careers, it can be anything you, your partner, your sups or even former ems has given you.
 
"Sometimes it's a whole lot easier to just take them to the hospital than to take a refusal."
 
Last edited by a moderator:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHaJegv6Sjs&feature=related[/youtube]
 
We talking strictly EMS?

Always be polite because you never know who's watching. Plus it's really just as easy as being rude and it annoys the truly annoying patients way more.

Listen to your patient.

When you can't think of anything to say don't say anything.

If we're talking just general advice?

Identify the holes in yourself and then figure out what you need to do to start plugging them. They can be emotional holes, educational holes, personality holes whatever. Anything that is holding you back from being happy and physically and mentally healthy is a hole.

Good luck :)
 
Shoe covers...
 
ChaseZ33 said:
Shoe covers...
Click to expand...

indoorshoecovers.jpg


OR

418fRRJDzwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
 
Don't judge the annoying alcoholic bum patient. We are all just a few bad decisions away from being him.

Always be polite. People generally won't care / won't know if you are an incompetent provider, but they will complain if you are rude. If people liek you they won't complain.

If you're not sure whats going on with a patient, thats ok. Get them to hospital or seek further advice. There are many atypical cases out there. I recently went to a 30 year old pt with ALOC initially GCS8. No known cause, all tests in the ED were negative and he is now in ICU awaiting further test.
 
Don't go into retail was the best advice I got. That person later went into retail and went out of business.

Was told to avoid supervisors. They have nothing better to do Han find something wrong, anything, and write you up for it.

My mother tells me I should have gone into acting so. Would have something to fall back on in case EMS doesn't work out.
 
"Always ask yourself: How is this going to look on the 6 O'Clock news."

The 2 most important questions to ever ask a patient.

1. "Can you walk?"

2. "Have you tried?"

2 questions I am especially fond of:

"So...Tell me... How did you do that?"

often followed by

"Would you like to revise your statement?"
(AKA do you want to change your BS story?)
 
Don't be a toolbag....

Be respectful and polite to co-responders as well as your patient.

Don't chase nurses....yep didn't follow that one and it didn't end well :lol:
 
"We never run. We do the EMT walk."
 
Advice I've been given:

"Mike, if you're hung up on Airway, then you're just hung up on Airway."

"You can't kill a dead man."

"There's a difference between knowing a thing and understanding a thing."

"Think."

"Always act. Never REact."

Advice I've given:

"If you know why, then what and how will make sense."

"Never say never. Never say always."

"If they have a radial pulse and are lucid, then they have a perfusing blood pressure."

"If you treat the cause, then you treat the symptom."

"If you can't prove it in black and white right then and there, then treat it."

"Trust your gut."

"Take everything you might need even on those BS calls at least to the 'oh $#@!' distance (the front door) so you do NOT get caught with your pants down."

 
Remember the 5 W's. Who, what, when, where, why.

Who is my patient?
What is really wrong?
When did the problem start?
Where is my back up?
Why can't I drink on the job?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top