Hey guys, hope you are all doing well 
First I'd like to say I have to really admire any MR, EMT-B, I, or P out there, because I really want to be one.
Don't know how other schools are run but the one I was attending has a multiple choice final and sort of a Patient Assessment final where you have to assess and treat two Manikins (very high tech). Anyway got an excellent score on the multiple choice test but tanked the Patient Assessment.
To give you an idea think of a teen angst movie where the dopey nerdy dude wants to ask the cheerleader out to the prom (I don't know, a Napoleon Dynamite of EMT's). Anyway after talking to my instructor who was a really a good guy (I'm the only one that had a problem passing this portion of the exam and he really took time to coach me), I've decided to back off and try to work on this aspect of my performance for a few weeks before taking the class again.
I have a lot of book knowledge but applying it to the patient quickly, without a lot of self doubt and second guessing, perhaps a lack of confidence (definitely did not take control of the scene) is what did me in. Anyway taking any and all suggestions on things I might be able to do to improve.
The only "book" area that I really screwed up on the practical test was working with drugs used in state protocols...specifically Epi. I think I have a complex about that one. Any way, anyone else fail a practical and make it back or have any ideas on building up in that area. I have a few weeks to work on it before I'm jumping in again.
Thanks
First I'd like to say I have to really admire any MR, EMT-B, I, or P out there, because I really want to be one.
Don't know how other schools are run but the one I was attending has a multiple choice final and sort of a Patient Assessment final where you have to assess and treat two Manikins (very high tech). Anyway got an excellent score on the multiple choice test but tanked the Patient Assessment.
To give you an idea think of a teen angst movie where the dopey nerdy dude wants to ask the cheerleader out to the prom (I don't know, a Napoleon Dynamite of EMT's). Anyway after talking to my instructor who was a really a good guy (I'm the only one that had a problem passing this portion of the exam and he really took time to coach me), I've decided to back off and try to work on this aspect of my performance for a few weeks before taking the class again.
I have a lot of book knowledge but applying it to the patient quickly, without a lot of self doubt and second guessing, perhaps a lack of confidence (definitely did not take control of the scene) is what did me in. Anyway taking any and all suggestions on things I might be able to do to improve.
The only "book" area that I really screwed up on the practical test was working with drugs used in state protocols...specifically Epi. I think I have a complex about that one. Any way, anyone else fail a practical and make it back or have any ideas on building up in that area. I have a few weeks to work on it before I'm jumping in again.
Thanks
