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4 hours collectively. I don't see how you guys have done EMT work for 20+ years on little bits and pieces of sleep. I mean 4 hours over the past couple days is rough for me. I admire you all.
 
EMT533 said:
4 hours collectively. I don't see how you guys have done EMT work for 20+ years on little bits and pieces of sleep. I mean 4 hours over the past couple days is rough for me. I admire you all.
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Caffeine citrate ivp prn
 
EMT533 said:
I don't wanna touch Cafcit. Not with the amount of meds I'm on already.
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That was a joke lol. I can't t get my hands on the iv preparation
 
Sorry like I said I'm tired and I just busted my curling iron.
 

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I gave up on attempting to style my hair years ago.


My go to is the messy mom bun.
 
I just got taken to this sweet *** little Spanish market place with a little taco shop in the back. Left with two beef tacos and this awesome hot sauce, the mango nectar from my childhood (Jumex), and a orange Fanta "Hecho en Mexico". This was an amazing $8 investment.
 
EMT533 said:
4 hours collectively. I don't see how you guys have done EMT work for 20+ years on little bits and pieces of sleep. I mean 4 hours over the past couple days is rough for me. I admire you all.
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My personal bests this year have been a 2 week stretch with about 30 hours of sleep each week and two back to back 12s that ended with me staying up for about 36 hours with a quick hour nap in the middle and I don't even have the most impressive record here lol.
 
Any tips on how to not kill your patient because you haven't had enough sleep?
 
StCEMT said:
My personal bests this year have been a 2 week stretch with about 30 hours of sleep each week and two back to back 12s that ended with me staying up for about 36 hours with a quick hour nap in the middle and I don't even have the most impressive record here lol.
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Like I said I admire you all.
 
EMT533 said:
Any tips on how to not kill your patient because you haven't had enough sleep?
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Practice. Get everything down to where you don't think about what you do as far as skills. When it comes to assessments and med administration it boils down to experience and luck with not killing someone. After a while you get used to lack of sleep and don't notice your level of tiredness and functional status.
 
EMT533 said:
4 hours collectively. I don't see how you guys have done EMT work for 20+ years on little bits and pieces of sleep. I mean 4 hours over the past couple days is rough for me. I admire you all.
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Staying away from places that allow 24 hour shifts or more.
 
cruiseforever said:
Staying away from places that allow 24 hour shifts or more.
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I've got a 36hr shift scheduled next month which includes a 12hr stand by after the 24hr shift followed by a 10-12hr shift about 10hrs after the 36hr ends. Then to top all that off, I go back in for a 24hr shift after maybe 12-14hrs off. It's a lot of hours but the pay is great. I cleared over 63k last year.
 
luke_31 said:
Practice. Get everything down to where you don't think about what you do as far as skills. When it comes to assessments and med administration it boils down to experience and luck with not killing someone. After a while you get used to lack of sleep and don't notice your level of tiredness and functional status.
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Thank you. I'm going to be going to school and doing EMT work for about a year.
 
I'm not sure I even know when I'm awake half the time. In a desperate attempt to prove that one could work fulltime (and more!), go to paramedic school (and do well!), and still go skiing a lot (in excessively distant locales!), I haven't had a whole day at home since Feb 18th and won't until March 19th.

Choices were made, they were less than good.
 
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