Green Horn Pet Peevs

[TEK 679]

I give my noob just enough rope not to hang themself. We need to be supportive out there remember we were all green once. That is one of ems' main problems in my area no support staff they just turn'm loose and hope for the best! We all will get mad at the noob from time to time just remember treat them the way you would like to be treated.

 

[Jeremy89]

I give my noob just enough rope not to hang themself. We need to be supportive out there remember we were all green once. That is one of ems' main problems in my area no support staff they just turn'm loose and hope for the best! We all will get mad at the noob from time to time just remember treat them the way you would like to be treated.

THANK YOU...

at least someone said it!

 

[Short Bus]

I have said for a long time that Paramedics save lives and EMTs save paramedics. Some may not like that, but I think it is pretty true. As has been said before, not trying to take away from any EMT out there. Hell, the first 3 letters in my card are EMT. We all start somewhere. I will say it again, this is not to bash EMTs or noobs. This is to HELP THEM

 

[JPINFV]

Show me a basic who saved a paramedic and I'll show you a paramedic who needs remedial training and education.

 

[Short Bus]

Show me a basic who saved a paramedic and I'll show you a paramedic who needs remedial training and education.

I mean they save them as in getting things set up, helping you do your job. I am sure there are some basics out there that have saved the azzes of some fine medics. Just another set of eyes or someone to watch your back. There are many ways that can be looked at.

 

[JPINFV]

^
Paramedic partners can't do those things?

 

[Airwaygoddess]

I think the word needed here is teamwork.....

 

[Short Bus]

I think the word needed here is teamwork.....

Thank you. :beerchug:

Why do some people feel that they have to be difficult

 

[LE-EMT]

I personally like the color green so I will probably be the greenest green horn of them all.
When working with noobs I would instruct them. This is what I want you to know and this is how I want you know know it. As soon as you learn that and can show that you can preform it proficiently then we will move on to something new and better. If I think you can handle it the first time around I will let you do it and instruct as we go along. If I don't feel that you can handle it your first time around watch me learn from me I will always tell you what I am doing as long as you want to learn. Then after the call we will sit in the truck and discuss everything from beginning to end. How do you think you did, what do you think you can improve on, What your general over all feeling of how the call went is at this time. Then I will give you my input and we will go from there.

I am a very brash/blunt teacher. Often times Considered to be an Ahole. Such is life but when you look at my students and where they are now. They are all in the top of their divisions, then all I have to say to that is NUFF SAID.

I expect the same when I don the scope and step into the back of the ambo. TEACH ME I WANT TO LEARN!!

 

[PainfulPriapismTX]

I suspect that many of us have all gone through the Newbie ring once or twice. We didn't become Medical Genius without stepping off the backstep and falling once or 100 times!!! I started instructing at the college I went to for my Basic/Paramedic. As I started instructing, I found out that it was easier to point out to the students some of the easier things to fix the "NOOB" stereotype before they actually began their rideouts. My big pet peeve has always been having someone in the direct path/or standing with a blank face in the spot that I need to be in!!! I started teaching my students that they should always keep eye contact with their partner and stay opposite their partner around the stretcher unless they are asked to assist next to them. It's amazing how just a little communication prior to going out in the field helped these guys. I say lets start from the beginning of class and teach students more than just stretcher techniques and EVAC classes.​

 

[Short Bus]

I suspect that many of us have all gone through the Newbie ring once or twice. We didn't become Medical Genius without stepping off the backstep and falling once or 100 times!!! I started instructing at the college I went to for my Basic/Paramedic. As I started instructing, I found out that it was easier to point out to the students some of the easier things to fix the "NOOB" stereotype before they actually began their rideouts. My big pet peeve has always been having someone in the direct path/or standing with a blank face in the spot that I need to be in!!! I started teaching my students that they should always keep eye contact with their partner and stay opposite their partner around the stretcher unless they are asked to assist next to them. It's amazing how just a little communication prior to going out in the field helped these guys. I say lets start from the beginning of class and teach students more than just stretcher techniques and EVAC classes.​

Very Nice. I like the way you have stated this.

 

[karaya]

Piss poor communication skills (i.e. bedside manner) with a patient!! Clearly this is my biggest peeve.

I travel all over the country in my capacity as an EMS photographer and I have to say barely 30% of EMT's and paramedics that I've been embedded with can make the bar in my eyes and ears with what I would consider excellent "bedside manners." Some are so awful, I just want to shrink myself to a few inches and hide in one of the compartments.

I have seen a world of difference in a patient's anxiety, fears and even pain with good ol' dose of conversation from a medic who is skilled in this art.

 

[Short Bus]

Piss poor communication skills (i.e. bedside manner) with a patient!! Clearly this is my biggest peeve.

I travel all over the country in my capacity as an EMS photographer and I have to say barely 30% of EMT's and paramedics that I've been embedded with can make the bar in my eyes and ears with what I would consider excellent "bedside manners." Some are so awful, I just want to shrink myself to a few inches and hide in one of the compartments.

I have seen a world of difference in a patient's anxiety, fears and even pain with good ol' dose of conversation from a medic who is skilled in this art.

Great point! You have to remember that these are not just chest pains or breathing problems, these are people.

 

[mikeylikesit]

My big pet peeve has always been having someone in the direct path/or standing with a blank face in the spot that I need to be in!!! I started teaching my students that they should always keep eye contact with their partner and stay opposite their partner around the stretcher unless they are asked to assist next to them. ​

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Yes, thank you it kills me when they do the ambulance dance. mine would have to be the one who needs constant reassurance of their skills. you know the ones "am I doing this right? can you double check my BP i want to make sure it is right. can you proof read my report, did i wrap this wound correctly?" i don;t mind if it is a question on something that they didn't learn in school, or to double check a trauma patients vitals, but the ones that they should have practiced in school or on their own they should already know.B)

 

[Ops Paramedic]

Some interesting ones!! Mine would have to be: Not the fact that someone does something wrong or fails to do something they should have, but rather the ingonrance of that person not asking for advice, or what & what not to do...

Remember that even seasoned practitioners make mistakes, the difference is, they just know how to hide them a lot better!!!

 

[PainfulPriapismTX]

I have to agree with you there. I'll never forget the student who, on a traumatic femur fracture, made a HUGE med error. I have to admit that I should NEVER turn my back on a student with a medication in her hand, but I told her we were going to give 2 of morphine w/ a tubex injector system. She took the 10 mg Tubex injector with a 21 G needle and placed it in the IV. I turned to record it on the LP 12 and when I turned back she asked me for the second morphine. I turned completely WHITE and just about crapped myself. This is where I immediately called Med Control and asked if they were cool with our crew giving the patient 10 mg of Morphine instead of 2. Thank goodness the guy didn't go into Respiratory Arrest or anything bad. He just chilled out for a while with 0 on his 1/10 pain scale. Needless to say, I didn't even have to yell or scream at the student. She immediately cried and bawled when I advised her that 2 of morphine did not mean to vials, but 2 mg. She beat herself up so bad during the call, that I had to make her feel better by re-assuring her that we all make mistakes. But for good measure, I told her I expected that this would NEVER happen again in her lifetime, and that she would remember from now on that errors can happen in an instant if your not careful. That was a mistake on my part by not watching a little more carefully. But really, who would have thought that 2 of morphine would be two 10 mg vials!!!! I make myself very clear from here on out.

 

[mikeylikesit]

I have to agree with you there. I'll never forget the student who, on a traumatic femur fracture, made a HUGE med error. I have to admit that I should NEVER turn my back on a student with a medication in her hand, but I told her we were going to give 2 of morphine w/ a tubex injector system. She took the 10 mg Tubex injector with a 21 G needle and placed it in the IV. I turned to record it on the LP 12 and when I turned back she asked me for the second morphine. I turned completely WHITE and just about crapped myself. This is where I immediately called Med Control and asked if they were cool with our crew giving the patient 10 mg of Morphine instead of 2. Thank goodness the guy didn't go into Respiratory Arrest or anything bad. He just chilled out for a while with 0 on his 1/10 pain scale. Needless to say, I didn't even have to yell or scream at the student. She immediately cried and bawled when I advised her that 2 of morphine did not mean to vials, but 2 mg. She beat herself up so bad during the call, that I had to make her feel better by re-assuring her that we all make mistakes. But for good measure, I told her I expected that this would NEVER happen again in her lifetime, and that she would remember from now on that errors can happen in an instant if your not careful. That was a mistake on my part by not watching a little more carefully. But really, who would have thought that 2 of morphine would be two 10 mg vials!!!! I make myself very clear from here on out.

well i'm sure that since your patients didn't go into respiratory distress, he didn't mind. even so i have had interns do this with epi...ahhhhhh, then i double my work load and the hospitals, needless to say that on that call the person jump out of the arrithmia frying pan and into a fire.