DragonClaw
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Well I am interested in this. Assuming everything goes according to plan and I get a job, as a rookie, what should I be wary of when it comes to EMTs or paramedics?What's even more stunning is how often paramedics will scold or talk down to providers (in front of patients no less!!) when BLS doesn't have vitals before they arrive. Or experience difficulty obtaining vitals.
Every new EMT wants to be proficient at their job, and when they are unable to get a basic skill (which results in the all knowing and all powerful medics looking down on them as a result), I can totally understand why they do it. I'm not saying it's right, but I can see why it happens.
It's even more embarrassing that the paramedic doesn't do what the EMT does, but rather they put the patient on the pulse ox or monitor (now they have the pulse rate), and the autocuff from the lifepak (BP), and they just make up the RR that is more often than not 16. But we don't need to talk about that stuff, do we?