new to ems, I hear the pager/radio go off at home.

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Martin95037

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just got hired for the first time by an ambulance company. Just got done with 4th day of field training. when I got home I heard the radio/pager go off even though it was no where near me. Does this happen to anyone else? how do you deal with the problem?
 
It will go away. You’ve just got the jitters.
 
I can still hear the weird electronic dispatch phone tone at the old Acme-Western quarters in Oakland. That was over 30 years ago....
 
Did you use “Seatbelts and Caution” on those Berkley backups?
 
Martin95037 said:
just got hired for the first time by an ambulance company. Just got done with 4th day of field training. when I got home I heard the radio/pager go off even though it was no where near me. Does this happen to anyone else? how do you deal with the problem?
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When you say the pager was nowhere near you, do you mean it was in another room, and you were surprised you could hear it from there, or it was much too far away to be heard? Also, did the pager actually go off, or did you imagine it?

I know this sounds like TMI, but there's a difference between hearing things that didn't happen, and hard-to-hear things that happened when you heard them.
 
You’re new. You’re excited. You want to do all the calls and you want them all to be Johnny and Roy masterpieces.

A few stand up 24’s, a few missed holidays and social events, and a few 3am tone outs for patent and inarguable nonsense will burn that fat right off for you. Give it time.
 
It goes away after a while. Prior to EMS I was a line cook for a steakhouse. A couple times I found myself setting "plates of food" on my dresser as if it was the the serving window.

Sometimes random equipment beeps around base will cause my heart rate to jump up thinking it's tones.

Really the worst of it now, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and don't remember if I'm at work or at home.
 
GMCmedic said:
It goes away after a while. Prior to EMS I was a line cook for a steakhouse. A couple times I found myself setting "plates of food" on my dresser as if it was the the serving window.

Sometimes random equipment beeps around base will cause my heart rate to jump up thinking it's tones.

Really the worst of it now, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and don't remember if I'm at work or at home.
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I’ve done the wake up where the heck am I a few times. It gets old after a while but I guess it’s part of the job. Losing your mind that is.
 
Put in for pay. Watch how fast you don’t hear phantom tones anymore.
 
thanks for the input. years ago when I got my first cell phone same thing happened. then it went away.
 
Tigger said:
And then there’s the folks who have their text noise set to some kind of tone…bury them beneath the prison please.
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What...you don't like the Station 51 tones dropping for a message? 🤪
 
I set my I Am Responding and Active 911 for the minitor tones, otherwise I ignore it.
 
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