fast65
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So yeah...we may have decorated the back of the ambulance with Christmas lights today. 
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So yeah...we may have decorated the back of the ambulance with Christmas lights today.
Win.
Sasha
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So yeah...we may have decorated the back of the ambulance with Christmas lights today.
I found elf hats that play music and light up. I bought one for me and my sunday partner and on Christmas we are going to be "Santa's Little Helpers"
fast65
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Very much so
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Nice! We have been trying to talk the supervisors into letting us all wear santa hats on christmas and party hats on new years eve, I don't think they are too keen on it though.
Sasha
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I don't plan on donning the hat until I'm on the road.
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We run into supes constantly during our shifts between restocking narcs, toughbooks going down, so on and so forth and as the FNG I really don't want to stir the pot.
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The beauty of IFT. Once we are the road, we really don't see the supervisors until end of the shift.
JPINFV
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The beauty of weekend IFT. Generally don't see the supervisor/crew chief after getting a unit assignment, including at the end of shift.
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Fair enough. I personally enjoy 911. We have very few IFTs here anyways.
JPINFV
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The beauty of Southern California IFT. 911 level medical patients, without playing stretcher fetcher for the fire departments.
On a serious note, it wasn't until I worked in Massachusetts that I realized just how bad some IFT EMTs could be at handling emergencies simply because of lack of experience.
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Any IFT that happens here is a 911 crew or a wheelchair van with an EMT driver. Sometimes we will have a transfer car on if we have a bunch of scheduled IFTs but that's a rarity.
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IFT: Because Nursing Home Nurses Can't Find the "11" Button.
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There's something about an 88 page primer that makes me want to do anything but slog through it... 
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Lack of experience? I'm the most senior member at my station and I've only been doing this a year and a half :rofl:
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Yea, and I knew people who were doing it longer than that and could count the number of emergency runs (defined as going to the emergency room, not lights and siren use) they had in a year, full time, on their fingers and toes.
There's a difference between 20 years experience and 1 year experience repeated 20 times.
fast65
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Speaking of wheelchair van...our new wheelchair driver is the biggest "one-upper" I've ever met...he never stops talking :censored:
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I still vote for smothering him with a blanket.
fast65
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In due time Sasha, in due time
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Pillow works better.