the 100% directionless thread

DesertEMT66 said:
My special helmet says otherwise.

Also, one of our biggest hospitals is on strike and they are only accepting burn patients (only burn center for a huge area). Yay to even more bed delays.
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...and I've never been more happy to be traveling for interviews AND on a non-clinical rotation this week. That has to be a fuster cluck for the inpatient teams this week. :D
 
Passed the first quarter of medic school! Woot!
 
exodus said:
If you have everything together, you can walk in to the office and out within an hour with your card.
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They didn't let me do that
 
JPINFV said:
...and I've never been more happy to be traveling for interviews AND on a non-clinical rotation this week. That has to be a fuster cluck for the inpatient teams this week. :D
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I really want a patient today to request transport so I can say "I'm sorry but the ER is closed"
 
The longer I'm off a truck, the more I miss it. Applied for two more PRN spots this week.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
I really want a patient today to request transport so I can say "I'm sorry but the ER is closed"
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We say that at least once a day. Our ERs can go on internal which means we cannot transport there. Thank goodness we have 15 ERs in the valley
 
Rhonda said:
We say that at least once a day. Our ERs can go on internal which means we cannot transport there. Thank goodness we have 15 ERs in the valley
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I finally got to say it to a patient haha.

The hospital is in complete diversion. We have units staged there for walk in patients. The staff do a quick assessment and then we transport them out to another facility.
 
Out of curiosity, who pays for the transport/care?
 
DesertEMT66 said:
I finally got to say it to a patient haha.

The hospital is in complete diversion. We have units staged there for walk in patients. The staff do a quick assessment and then we transport them out to another facility.
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That's nuts.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
I finally got to say it to a patient haha.

The hospital is in complete diversion. We have units staged there for walk in patients. The staff do a quick assessment and then we transport them out to another facility.
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So if there's an unstable patient what happens since they can't just punt to another facility per EMTALA

MonkeyArrow said:
Out of curiosity, who pays for the transport/care?
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If the hospital is on divert the insurance will cover it. If we put them on bypass for having too many units holding the wall the hospital pays for it. Not sure how it works elsewhere and I don't totally understand how that flies with insurance companies, especially when they don't have a contract with the other facility.

We've got a bunch of different types of diverts. Closed is no beds available for admit. Critical Care is self explanatory as is ED Capacity. Internal Disaster can be anything from a fire or lockdown to critical facilities not functioning such as no CT scanner available when they're a CVA receiving facility. Then bypass is as I described, having too many units holding the wall. I believe we place a bypass once we have three ambulances on the wall that are "status 99" being they won't be able to meet our 25 minute turn-around time.

We can ignore any divert except for internal disaster in instances such as cardiac arrest, severe shock, uncontrollable hemorrhage or airway compromise that we cannot correct.
 
Why is it that its 0020, I am awake, and replying to a post on EMTLIFE? is it because I have no Life haha.
 
ViolynEMT said:
Why is it that it's really late and I'm responding to your post? Oh yeah....what you said.
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haha that is a very good point, Im watching Hurt Locker at the station instead of being a good little medic and sleeping haha
 
Someone please provide me with the motivation to start my A&P final.

Just about zero interest in a giant multiple choice test right now...
 
YOU CAN DO IT!!!! or you can just sit at your computer watching online TV!
 
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