Just got my IV certs.

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I can actually help our desert walking population now ha ha.
 
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Congrats on becoming a Paramedic.
 
Congrats on being trusted with sharp, pointy objects... ;)
 
jjesusfreak01 said:
Sharp HOLLOW pointy objects. The non-hollow variety are approved for general population use.
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You mean someone got approved for the assault catheters? OMG!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!!!!!!
 
How do you get your IV certs without going through a paramedic course?
 
anna said:
How do you get your IV certs without going through a paramedic course?
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By becoming an EMT-Intermediate (aka Advanced-EMT).

Or by working in a state that lets EMT-Bs do IVs. CO is one.
 
Well out here we have a special population called "desert walkers" "UDAs" "Aliens" and very rural areas that just have BLS with a long long wait for a ALS unit.
 
Cohn said:
Well out here we have a special population called "desert walkers" "UDAs" "Aliens" and very rural areas that just have BLS with a long long wait for a ALS unit.
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Areas such as that need to be ALS more than many areas. Time to get your community to spend the money.
 
medic417 said:
Areas such as that need to be ALS more than many areas. Time to get your community to spend the money.
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and also more vollys... and then you need to make the very poor rural folk give more of there tax money... 600+sq miles of coverage and only a $3 million tax base to get money from... you do the math.
 
Cohn said:
and also more vollys... and then you need to make the very poor rural folk give more of there tax money... 600+sq miles of coverage and only a $3 million tax base to get money from... you do the math.
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We have over 3000 square miles as only ambulance service with even smaller tax base and are a paid service staffing Paramedics all shifts. So if your community leaders have their priorities right they can find the money. If you are strictly volunteer and really want to stay that way it really does not cost much more to go to a volunteer Paramedic service.
 
Cohn said:
and also more vollys... and then you need to make the very poor rural folk give more of there tax money... 600+sq miles of coverage and only a $3 million tax base to get money from... you do the math.
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I'm in one of the poorest counties in tx, yet we manage to have a paid ALS level EMS agency to cover over three thousand miles. Part of it is we're not wasting money on a paid fd :p (not a dig towards all fds, but ours runs maybe three hundred calls a year, if that, so there's no point in making them a paid dept). There are ways to get ALS coverage pretty much everywhere.
 
bstone said:
By becoming an EMT-Intermediate (aka Advanced-EMT).

Or by working in a state that lets EMT-Bs do IVs. CO is one.
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^^this,, MN is one also, with blessings from Med Dir. of course.
 
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