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Austin Sahms

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Ok, so I graduated an emt basic course about a month ago with the highest grade in our class of about 25. Our class did tests from this site called Emstesting.com and I scored a 94 on our 150 question final. I was fairly confident so I immediately took the nremt and promptly failed. I was discouraged, but decided to shrug it off and study up for my next attemt. I've been using every Web resource that's been mentioned here on this forum and even purchased the emt basic review manual by Stephen j. Rahm. Here's the problem, I'm finding alot of information in these study resources that is the exact opposite of what the textbook my classes used said (Brady emergency care 12th edition ). Examples include my textbook saying that the only care that should be given to someone actively having a seizure is to protect them from harm, whereas the emt basic review manual says the only care given should be airway management and makes no mention of protection from harm. Also my textbook specifically says not to ask open ended questions about pain (such as: what does it feel like) because the patient might not know how to describe it, whereas both the review manual and numerous Internet sources say I should avoid asking leading questions and ask only open ended questions about pain. These aren't the only contrdictions. Ive found many. This is frustrating because I remember questions on the nremt having all of these answers. I'm not sure which source to trust. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
94 out of 150 is 62%....are you trolling?
 
94% not 94 questions. I'm sorry for not specifying.
 
I feel your pain. I'm going to be taking the NREMT-P written soon and I'm sure I'll run into the same problem (do we give the stroke/STEMI patient oxygen? etc). I think the only answer is to make sure have a really good understanding of the material - know WHY we do things, don't just mindlessly memorize. For example, your emt basic review manual "makes no mention of protection from harm" for the seizure patient... Use your common sense - what's in the patient's best interest?

It's probably inevitable that you'll get questions wrong because they're written based on some other protocols you've never seen and don't have access to. But if you have a good understanding of what's going on, hopefully you can figure out and pick the answer the test wants you to choose more often than not, and you pass. Do lots of practice questions.
 
I just used my brandy books and passed NREMT and NREMT-P without any issue. All the info in the books was what was on the test or just some very basic common sense.
 
Gurby said:
I feel your pain. I'm going to be taking the NREMT-P written soon and I'm sure I'll run into the same problem (do we give the stroke/STEMI patient oxygen? etc). I think the only answer is to make sure have a really good understanding of the material - know WHY we do things, don't just mindlessly memorize. For example, your emt basic review manual "makes no mention of protection from harm" for the seizure patient... Use your common sense - what's in the patient's best interest?

It's probably inevitable that you'll get questions wrong because they're written based on some other protocols you've never seen and don't have access to. But if you have a good understanding of what's going on, hopefully you can figure out and pick the answer the test wants you to choose more often than not, and you pass. Do lots of practice questions.
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I guess I was blindsided by failing the first time. Especially after doing so well in class. There seemed to be so many questions about things we just didn't go over in class. Questions about specific drugs like Darvon, and questions about the symptoms of specific diseases like late stage AIDS.
 
Where did you take your nremt? Because for EMT-B they wouldn't ask about a specific drug, especially one that has been banned b the FDA for 5 years, yes I had to Google what Darvon was. But something seems off to me. The Brady textbook was entirely accurate for my nremt over two years ago.
 
I'm sorry I mistyped I'm my op, the question about propoxyphene (darvon) is from the practice exam in the EMT Basic review manual for national certification by Stephen Rahm, not the Nremt I took at person professional centers.
 
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Huh, I read that the Nremt does commonly have questions above the training of an emt b just as a way to gauge how much you know, and sometimes as research. Anyways, I retested on Thursday and found out this morning that I passed. I kinda freaked out when the test stopped at 70 questions. I didn't think it was possible I'd gotten enough questions right for it to only give me that few. I guess all those practice tests paid off.
 
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