Hmm....a little late to be asking for pros and cons of working for PRN AFTER accepting the job offer and have a starting date.....especially if you think you'll be getting resonses from "Former disgruntled employees" that you wont listen too to avoid dampening your excitement (no need to be too excited, I was pretty happy to get my first EMT job there myself, but just remember you'll be doing non-emergent BLS transfers all day, definitely more interesting than most other jobs where you're cooped up in one place all day, but neither is it the most exciting job out there either).
Anyways, I worked for PRN for about 10 months back in 2013. Back then I thought it was a pretty decent company. Show up on time to the right station in uniform that's tucked in and boots not looking like you just did a week long USAR exercise, clock in, check out the rig and go available and run your calls and turn in proper paperwork and don't crash the amulance and don't go out of your way to piss off nurses and you were golden. You'd start shift, get a post, go pick up someone at a hospital going to a nursing home, maybe from a SNF to some other tertiary care facility, drive around the county in circles between different posts, maybe do a non Kaiser to Kaiser transfer.....rinse, wash, repeat. Pretty easy, pretty chill. Once in a blue moon there'd be a dialysis transfer, or a lift assist. I started off on a BLS shift, then got on a CCT shift which were almost all hospital to hospital transfers between ICUs for various reasons. Only ever got one Code 3 call (that was on a CCT taking a STEMI from one Kaiser ER that didn't have a cath lab across town to one that did). Only reason I left was to go work for a company that also did 911 response. PRN does (did) not do ANY 911s really, never took a 911 call in the 10 months I was there, never heard one go out over the radio. But that's what I wanted to do, so that's why I left (although since I landed at Gerber in it's last year before shutting down, there was definitely a few days I was thinking I should've stayed on my CCT shift)
But that was all back in 2013. They've since been bought out and have gotten all new management. And everything that I've heard through the grapevine has been less than spectacular. You can do a search here and read up on threads about PRN in the last few years and pretty much gain all the same info I have. but my basic understanding is that the new management is a pain and things have started to go a bit down hill, but consensus does seem to be PRN and Bowers are still among the top two IFT only companies to work for in the county. So.....show up on time, check your rig out and be available for calls on time, take the calls they give you, expect to post all day in between calls, do a full BLS assessment of your patients (don't be that EMT chatting away on their cell phone during the entire transport) and learn what you can from their charts about different lab values and what they mean and what meds go with what conditions. Because whether you're going on the PA/medical school or going for FD/Paramedic that'll help you out.
