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I am in an enhanced class in VA, it is relatively new, the oh so knowledgeable EMS council wants to phase the enhanced and intermediate out, making it so you are either an EMT-B with some extra skills tacked on or your a paramedic, no in between. So for now, I am going up the ladder one step at a time till were forced to make decisions.
My class has some great instructors but...were being taught out of an intermediate book and workbook as there is no book for an enhanced and our instructors are vague as to what we really need to know and what we need to study. If we ask what we should know and study for a test, were told "Everything". No homework has been given and were in the 3rd month of class, many of us still feel a bit lost as to what we need to know, were given something one night in class with no real direction, no study this as were going to have a quiz on it, just no real direction. This last test we had, several came out after it was over shaking their head, one girl fell apart, I was a bit wide eyed and looking over the questions now, there were more than a few of them that were for an intermediate, we won't be doing an advanced airway where we will be putting things down the tube. Others dealt with more advanced medication.
I am not sure if I should just man up and go talk to the instructor or just keep studying hard and pray I pass once we do our state test and clinical in front of a state instructor. I am sure he is a busy man, but yet he doesn't really seem to care if we do have test questions that are not for our scope of practice were studying, nor does he seem to see the point of giving us home work so we can have another way of studying and learning.
What do ya'll suggest? Anyone else been in this situation? We also know that the class before us was taught in the same manner and the same sort of feelings of how that class was taught..no direction or real leadership or firm understanding of what we need to know as enhanced ALS providers.
My class has some great instructors but...were being taught out of an intermediate book and workbook as there is no book for an enhanced and our instructors are vague as to what we really need to know and what we need to study. If we ask what we should know and study for a test, were told "Everything". No homework has been given and were in the 3rd month of class, many of us still feel a bit lost as to what we need to know, were given something one night in class with no real direction, no study this as were going to have a quiz on it, just no real direction. This last test we had, several came out after it was over shaking their head, one girl fell apart, I was a bit wide eyed and looking over the questions now, there were more than a few of them that were for an intermediate, we won't be doing an advanced airway where we will be putting things down the tube. Others dealt with more advanced medication.
I am not sure if I should just man up and go talk to the instructor or just keep studying hard and pray I pass once we do our state test and clinical in front of a state instructor. I am sure he is a busy man, but yet he doesn't really seem to care if we do have test questions that are not for our scope of practice were studying, nor does he seem to see the point of giving us home work so we can have another way of studying and learning.
What do ya'll suggest? Anyone else been in this situation? We also know that the class before us was taught in the same manner and the same sort of feelings of how that class was taught..no direction or real leadership or firm understanding of what we need to know as enhanced ALS providers.
