Well if this EMT thing doesn't work out....

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We had our Airway skills check off last night in my EMT-B class. Four Stations.

1. BVM, 1 and 2 person
2. Airway Adjuncts and Suctioning
3. O2 Therapy - (Basically 15LPM, NRB, call for ALS)
4. Combi-Tube - (Our protocols allow EMT-B use)

So our whole class is outside. Four people go up. As one person comes out, the let everyone know what skill they just did, and the next person in line for that skill goes (We had a nice little system worked out, it was Fabulous!)

We have this girl in our class, who is Dual Enrolled - still in HS, taking college classes. She comes out and we all look up at her. She couldn't remember the name of the skill she just did. She couldn't remember the name of it before she did it, or after. Not really a surprise.

Anyway, so we ask her, What did you just do? Turning sideways she leans her head back, opens her mouth, and making a circle with her hand she does "THAT" up and down motion. She says, You know, that round thingie that you put in the mouth and into the throat!
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep, in a class of 8 FF you can just bet where that went to. It didn't have tears from laughing until one off the guys says, Well you know, if this EMT thing doesn't work out, theres always the Movies!
 
:D :D :D

A good laugh. Just what I needed to start the day.

:)
 
Sounds like a girl in my class ;)

Have a good night!

Brandon
 
Hilarious but kind of not... If every class had one of those I think I might have been ours. I was in high school taking college classes and I was always dumb about something.... hmmm :huh:
 
Well I don't think I know that I was ours duel enrolled in highschool and the EMT class. I had a blast being the youngest one by a few years to say the least. Needless to say I did really well in my EMT class and still can rattle stuff off when I am teaching the class. It also really has helped me in my nursing classes.
 
I remember this kid I went through EMT training with that was ditzy like that. During the course at different times he did a few amazingly stupid things. The first I witnessed had to do with a trauma practical and rolling the pt on his side... all by himself. A medical practical... instead of switching the pt's nc for a nrb he just cranked it up to 15 lpm. Another trama practical he started cpr on a pt that had a pulse and was breathing. I could go on but I dont have the time to list everything. :blink:
 
Or the ghetto kid in my class who likes to chew his tabacco, spit it in an empty soda bottle, then place the bottle next to me on the table. UGH.

Brandon
 
Originally posted by runindash05@Jan 28 2005, 09:34 AM
Or the ghetto kid in my class who likes to chew his tabacco, spit it in an empty soda bottle, then place the bottle next to me on the table. UGH.

Brandon
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Were we in the same class? Oh, wait, I'm not a ghetto kid! :P
 
I have a young 18 yr old guy, soon-to-be-in-fire-school... he cracks us all up... He came to me while practicing listening for lung sounds... raised both of his hands...to...erm...chest level....and proceeds to ask me if he could listen to my lungs.... YEAH RIGHT!!! LOL - then he kept telling me he couldn't hear my lungs (from the back) and I realized that he had the ear plugs from his scope in backwards... That was fun.

This same guy goes to take my BP and squeezes the bulb to about 250 - (I am very small) and my arm turned purple. He releases the valve, VERY SLOWLY, and stops when he gets to the systolic pressure. He reads it to me...then releases the valve, again VERY SLOWLY, and then stops again when he gets to my diastolyic pressure.... THEN, he turns around and starts talking to another student while the cuff is still inflated...and left me there for like 2 minutes...until I had to yell at him.... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

He's such a nut case.

So far the people in my class are good. There is only one annoying person that the instructors have to tell to shut up from time to time because he thinks he knows everything .... (a 30 yr old life guard who works for Disney)...


Anyways, thought I would share....
 
Originally posted by runindash05@Jan 28 2005, 11:34 AM
Or the ghetto kid in my class who likes to chew his tabacco, spit it in an empty soda bottle, then place the bottle next to me on the table. UGH.

Brandon
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OMG - I have two people in my class like that...only they aren't ghetto kids...they are....as they claim to be... "COWBOYS"... In Orlando Florida.... can you believe that???

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Originally posted by PArescueEMT+Jan 27 2005, 09:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PArescueEMT @ Jan 27 2005, 09:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-40sCutest@Jan 27 2005, 07:02 PM
I was always dumb about something.... hmmm :huh:
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What color is your hair? :huh: [/b][/quote]
I have cute brown hair thank you!!

My best stupid move:

My first time putting an O2 bottle together I broke it.... I put the regulatior on the wrong way. I never lived it down and to this day shake when I have to put one together... I guess it will get better with time. :(
 
Originally posted by 40sCutest@Jan 29 2005, 07:01 PM
My best stupid move:

My first time putting an O2 bottle together I broke it.... I put the regulatior on the wrong way. I never lived it down and to this day shake when I have to put one together... I guess it will get better with time.
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:lol: :lol: That is SO funny. Now I don't feel like such a complete moron.

First time I put a regulator on, one of the Officers at the FD handed it and the bottle to me and said, Here it only goes on one way. Its FF proof.

So, five minutes later I handed it back to him. Sure enough the wrong way. Training that night opened with first "Youll never guess with SHE did" then a lesson on putting together an O2 bottle.
 
The O2 bottle is the worst...I had a hard time with it too. and the first time I had to hook up O2 in the field.....I stuck the tubing on the wrong part. I should have realized this when the tubing didn't seem to fit right on there.

I had one student try to put a traction splint on me in class. he didn't size it right and the thing went up my butt. So without thinking I said out loud. "You're sticking it up my ***!" Even the instructor was tearing up with laughter, that's one I have yet to live down.
 
One my my partners while in EMT school was hurt with the traction splint. I guess they did a few too many turns, and the traction was a bit too much. They ended up having to take her to the hospital... good thing there were so many EMTs on hand :lol:
 
Originally posted by Wingnut@Jan 29 2005, 11:15 PM
"You're sticking it up my ***!" Even the instructor was tearing up with laughter, that's one I have yet to live down.
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LMFAO!!!!!!


That would have been fun to witness....
 
Originally posted by EMTstudent+Jan 29 2005, 05:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (EMTstudent @ Jan 29 2005, 05:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-runindash05@Jan 28 2005, 11:34 AM
Or the ghetto kid in my class who likes to chew his tabacco, spit it in an empty soda bottle, then place the bottle next to me on the table. UGH.

Brandon
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OMG - I have two people in my class like that...only they aren't ghetto kids...they are....as they claim to be... "COWBOYS"... In Orlando Florida.... can you believe that???

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Yea, I had a whole class of "cowboys." Yet they all lived in town...
 
Ha! Yeah well I'll never live it down at home either, but that's a WHOLE different story.... :blink:
 
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