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Were you there for her entire stay in the hospital? Did she specifically state she just wanted drugs? If not, then it is unfair of you to make that assesment.
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She was at the hospital 12 hours before hand. After we put her in a room the RN came up to us and told us what happened during her last visit. She came in complaining of chest pain and "green stuff" coming out of her nose. The physician on duty gave her a prescription and she threw a fit saying she wanted the drugs in hand right now or she wasn't leaving. They apparently tried to explain to her that that wasn't possible that she would have to get the prescription filled at a pharmacy. Long story short she ended up verbally threatening the RN and the police were called to escort her out of the hospital. So now 12 hours later we are bringing her back in with the same c/c and the doctor was not too happy with us. We ended up coming back to the hospital 2 hours later, she was gone and the RN said the police had to be called again to escort her off the premises. So was I there for her "whole" hospital stay? No. Did I hear her say she just wanted drugs? NO. But from the situation and what I heard from hospital staff, we all came to the conclusion that yes that is what she was there for.
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I know women can be a PITA, but dang
Glad you had fun.
LOL. Sorry should have made that more clear, we had a another patient who had SOB (shortness of breath)
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Hi!
Almost halfway done with my class - which is just an exspensive recert considering I let my cert expire in 02.:wacko:
All I can say is, anyone wanting to take this class in the Los Angeles/South Bay area - stay away from SCROC in Torrance. I started that class last year - Feb 08. By Spring Break we had only completed CPR, vitals, and were just beginning patient assessment! No text book, no skills sheets, nada. I didn't bother going back after break.
Now I'm at LA Harbor College and I must say this is by far a much better course.
Each week we have an exam on a couple of chapters and now 4 or 5 weeks into the labs we are already testing out on some skills. Defintiely keeps the mind working.
The only thing I'm not looking forward to are the ride-a-longs. I'll do the ER rotations no problem, but they can keep the ambulance shifts. Been there, done that, didn't bother to get the shirt.
Anyone else in the South Bay?
Almost halfway done with my class - which is just an exspensive recert considering I let my cert expire in 02.:wacko:
All I can say is, anyone wanting to take this class in the Los Angeles/South Bay area - stay away from SCROC in Torrance. I started that class last year - Feb 08. By Spring Break we had only completed CPR, vitals, and were just beginning patient assessment! No text book, no skills sheets, nada. I didn't bother going back after break.
Now I'm at LA Harbor College and I must say this is by far a much better course.
Each week we have an exam on a couple of chapters and now 4 or 5 weeks into the labs we are already testing out on some skills. Defintiely keeps the mind working.
The only thing I'm not looking forward to are the ride-a-longs. I'll do the ER rotations no problem, but they can keep the ambulance shifts. Been there, done that, didn't bother to get the shirt.
Anyone else in the South Bay?
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Okay, I'm confused.... if you don't want to ride in an ambulance.. why are you in EMT class? I mean, you do know that the end result, after you pass the class and get your cert is to actually ride in the ambulance.... it really is a very vital part of the job.
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Going on a clinical today. Its from 1900 to 0700 at a local hospital. Hopefully things go well and I can get some more experience.
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Congratulations!
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Or work in an ER, or an Urgent Care, or a clinic - or deploy with a DMAT team, or work at Disneyland or Universal, or be event staff, or work on tv/movie sets (they prefer medics, but if you know a guy who knows a guy....)
I understand that the majority of EMTs want to, and do work in EMS on ambulances, but I already had that experience for 10 years. Time for something a little bit different.
hey good luck with this im sure it'll be a great experience for u as it was for me. didnt get anything too crazy but it was fun, especially when the drunks came in Lol
Sorry, Disney does CNAs and LVNs (and, I hope to god that I don't have a real emergency there, the one I've run into was HORRID), last I checked, urgent cares don't take EMTs, same as clinics. Just sayin...
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So I had a clinical on Wednesday the 18th and a ride out on Saturday the 21st. The clinical was good, got some more experience. Was able to splint up a broken arm, do compressions on an cardiac arrest, do a bunch of EKGs and hook people up to monitors. We had a GSW walk in, they were shot in the shoulder. The most interesting thing of the night was the 51-50. Sheriffs brought him in, apparently he exposed himself to a dog and then starting to crawl in the middle of the street. He was pretty out there with all the stories he came up with. He was ca;m at first but as the night progressed he got more agitated and one thing lead to another and security ended up having to tackle him and put him in soft restraints. The soft restraints didn't hold him though so they ended up putting him in leather ones.
My ride out was nothing too interesting. Girl who called because she was throwing up after a night out drinking
We also had a person who was SOB and was in atrial fibrillation. The ride out I did was actually with my instructor and he said I did really good on my patient assessments. So yea I am done with my ride outs now.
My ride out was nothing too interesting. Girl who called because she was throwing up after a night out drinking
We also had a person who was SOB and was in atrial fibrillation. The ride out I did was actually with my instructor and he said I did really good on my patient assessments. So yea I am done with my ride outs now.Hey discworldfan,
I'm just a few blocks from your shool, in Lomita. I'm currently enrolled at the CIEMT course at McCormick whick I was sponsered by(they paid for the course if a pass of course).This is my second time in an EMT class and I must say I'm real happy(as well as other students in class I spoke with) with the program, its a 7 week course 3x a week, so you better not fall behind!
We dont get to the the hospital clinicals, only the ride-a-long. My instructor said they dont do the hospital clinicals any more?
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Congratulations!
So I finished my EMT/EMT-I practicum a few weeks ago....an absolutely miserable experience that has created in me a bona fide aversion to EMS. I am currently debating the merits of even paying for the provincial licensing exam to upgrade to EMT. Thankfully, I still found that I loved interacting with patients, that my skills were good, and that I had no problem making my patients and their families feel at ease, so healthcare is definitely a field I want to be in....but in the end, the experience also showed me that I will not be happy being anything other than a physician in the long term, so if I don't get into med school this year, I'm going to channel all my energy into improving my med application as opposed to contemplating any more backup plans. So while some say it was a waste of time, I disagree, it was still very valuable to me. Thankfully, the pay is good enough for me to be able to afford to work on other projects.
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Just threw my name out there in the intro thread, and I figured that I would in here too since I'm an EMT-B student now. I'm going to be finishing in early June and my class has made it through AMS and Diabetic Emergencies. Got our first 8-hour practical our Saturday. Very excited. B)