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Look at my post again please, as I edited in all the questions you asked after your quoted, but before you posted.
Ways to stay on top of your skills
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Back on topic please, this is not a BLS-ALS thread.
Someday it'll be just about the medical care without the ALS or BLS stuff.
But, by that time Rid and I will be long gone, destined to rattle our ghostly chains haunting the medic mills for as long as they are still in existence.
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Best advice is go on into Paramedic degree program. The more education the better your patient care will become. You will always need to keep learning as medicine is an ever evolving field.
I'm in total agreement that if you want to have a career in EMS you need to upgrade your education and scope of practice. I got my EMT so I could become a firefighter but instead find myself amazingly intrigued by EMS, taking basic chem and bio so I can taken A&P classes next semester and more advanced level courses before I set out to get my paramedic license.
However I also believe that a paramedic needs to be more well rounded so I also take sociology, psychology, writing, communication and math courses. At the rate I'm going I will have an associates before I go to get my paramedic which will almost put me at a bachelor level program based on credit hours.
My ultimate goal would be to find a bachelor program for EMS that is more accessible to EMS providers who work full time without traveling out of state and an online program that doesn't focus on business aspects.
However I also believe that a paramedic needs to be more well rounded so I also take sociology, psychology, writing, communication and math courses. At the rate I'm going I will have an associates before I go to get my paramedic which will almost put me at a bachelor level program based on credit hours.
My ultimate goal would be to find a bachelor program for EMS that is more accessible to EMS providers who work full time without traveling out of state and an online program that doesn't focus on business aspects.
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Congrats on using good sense to get a proper education. I look forward to you getting your paramedic because you will be one of the new breed of highly educated and soon to be highly sought after medical professionals.
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Yay someone called and I get to go work 24 hours tomorrow. My first 24H shift.
medic417
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Enjoy.
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Thanks I have taken A&P I already. Thinking of taking part II this summer. I wanted to get some experience in though before taking on paramedic in the fall. My program only has A&P I needed. Everyone who applies doesn't get in.
This is the type of post I would like to see more of from young, ambitious people who see a need for education in EMS. And, they like it.
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Although furthering your education is important and something to always strive to achieve, I do believe that one of the best ways to stay on top of your game is by actually doing those thing you were trained to do as often as you possibly could. You can't teach exerience.
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How are you to determine what warrants ALS, when you cannot preform an ALS assesment? Sometimes things are masked very well, and everyone deserves an ALS assesment.
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Back on topic...last warning.
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And isn't that the point. Go out and ride. Take calls.
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Best way to stay on top of your skills: Instruct.
medic417
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Don't you know the saying " Those that can't do it, Teach".
OK again first and foremost continue your education. But it is not a bad idea to go get a KED out ever so often and practice. And don't forget the stair chair, where is it anyway.:unsure: And traction splint, make sure you know where it goes and how it works very intimatly. Other than that at the basic level open the airway, pump the chest, stop the bleeding.
medic417
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Never got that saying. Makes no sense that you would want to get your medical advice from the least educated of the crew. My advice would be forget that saying.
and my advice would to be the quicker you stop thinking you are a god, the better your career will be. and as for your "least educated of the crew" i've taken a&p 1, which is what you've taken in medic school, i've taken pharmacology, which talks about more drugs than you learn in medic school, i am currently taking a&p 2, which goes way more in depth that anything you learn in medic school, and i'm taking microbiology, which isn't even talked about in medic school. so because of those classes i am more knowledgeable in certain aspects than a lot of medics that i work with. to me you seem to think about nothing but money for your company. there are calls that don't warrant als treatment, so why bill them for unnecessary treatment that they wouldn't need.
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I do not think I am I a God. I am providing the OP an accurate opinion based on experience as a basic of many years and now as someone that has gotten more education. I do not understand why people always claim you are a Paragod if you advocate getting education.
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