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Dear Tele Nurse,

Please remember to call your monitor tech (Me) before slamming 12mg of Adensoine into your patient. I almost spit my Mountain Dew all over the computer screen. Not cool. :angry:
 
Ugh nothing like being written up by a supervisor asking me where I am... I got off a forty four hour shift yesterday morning and have NRP today. I know I'm not on that schedule for today
 
It is super awkward when you are working g with someone else you don't normally work with, and they are having a petty, immature argument with their wife.
 
TransportJockey said:
Ugh nothing like being written up by a supervisor asking me where I am... I got off a forty four hour shift yesterday morning and have NRP today. I know I'm not on that schedule for today
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Woken up? Or written up?
 
I tell one coworker I'm dating someone, and suddenly my love life is the entertainment for the company. I'm not sure if this is normal for EMS or not?
 
fast65 said:
I tell one coworker I'm dating someone, and suddenly my love life is the entertainment for the company. I'm not sure if this is normal for EMS or not?
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It's normal everywhere dude. Lol
 
bigbaldguy said:
If a 12 year old can calmly put a round in a guy breaking into a house I'm pretty sure they could turn a key in a gun lock.
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So what would be the benefit of locking the gun if you kept the key in it? Also, I am keenly aware that there is a difference between a 12 year old and a 3 year old handling a firearm. My point is that there is no magical bullet, so to speak, to stopping gun accidents. The only solution is education and responsible gun ownership.
 
He didn't say keep the key in it, just that she is able to open it. Keep the key high enough the people in the house who know how to use guns responsibly are the only ones who can get to it.

Or better yet, hack the gun safe and put a finger print scanner on it.


Maybe I should check the patent on that idea....
 
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Yay NRP today
 
Aidey said:
He didn't say keep the key in it, just that she is able to open it. Keep the key high enough the people in the house who know how to use guns responsibly are the only ones who can get to it.

Or better yet, hack the gun safe and put a finger print scanner on it.


Maybe I should check the patent on that idea....
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Exactly :)

I would like to see a gun safe that tracks when it's been opened. So if you have a kid that is mature enough (like this young girl) to know when to open it they can but also know that if it's opened inappropriately the parents will know it. It seems like many of these accidental child shooting occur when a friend is over and one kid wants to "show" the other kid the gun. If they knew their parents would find out they had removed the gun it might eliminate some of these shootings.

When I was a kid we had guns in the house. I never really fooled with them when I was home alone because they weren't really a big deal. Many times though when I had friends over and my parents weren't around at some point they'd be shown off to my wide eyed friends. If I had known that bringing them out would set off an alarm they wouldn't have come out. Luckily nothing tragic ever happened.

I did have a friend get shot in the middle of the back with a high powered pellet gun once. It was his pellet gun and he was letting another friend of ours carry it. The friend wasn't familiar with guns and we were walking single file in a ditch when he must have pulled the trigger and shot my friend right in the center of the back just to the right of the spine. It didn't occur to me until just now that if it had been a 22 or shotgun it may have killed him. If it had been 2 inches to left even the pellet might have paralyzed him. The pellet penetrated a half an inch and had to be pulled out by his very pissed mom. He wasn't supposed to have the pellet gun out and had only brought it out because we had all peer pressured him into it. We were all about 8 yrs old at the time.

It's been 30 years since my buddy got shot in the back. Massive improvements have been made in firearms and the price of a gun has increased to ridiculous levels yet despite this the majority of gun owners won't spend the 45 bucks to get an electronic pistol safe?

It's time responsible gun owners start putting peer pressure on the irresponsible owners. If we don't then eventually we'll lose our right to own guns and you know what? We'll have only ourselves to blame for it.


Edit: in addition to a safe tracking who opened it and when, I think it should also automatically send a text message or email to the parents phones if it's opened using a child's code/key.
 
Okay, before this thread deteriorates into a gun control debate, how about we get back off topic.

There are other forums out there where we can discuss and debate the benefits and drawbacks of gun control, and the good and bad points of trying to legislate an inanimate object to be "safer".
 
Aidey said:
He didn't say keep the key in it, just that she is able to open it. Keep the key high enough the people in the house who know how to use guns responsibly are the only ones who can get to it.

Or better yet, hack the gun safe and put a finger print scanner on it.


Maybe I should check the patent on that idea....
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Too late they already have all five fingers and thumb scanners along with a code!

Also, they should make a tracker for tv remotes because I always lose mine :(
 
Speaking of fingers, my hands officially don't shake anymore when I start an IV (much). I guess I should probably say attempt to start until my wins outnumber my losses.
 
Wonderful shift last night. Included, among many other things, plenty of vomit, cranky people, CPR, multiple gunshots, and a lovely 6 plus hour standby for the SO......
 
Stay off the table you're ok.
 
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OK, what syndrome is THIS person exhibiting?
 
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