You might work for a private if.....
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- I was required to purchase an O2 regulator with a 50 PSI knob to run vent jobs.
- All my EMTs are fresh out of EMT school without experience.
- Supervisors are EMT-Bs or lower. They tell me how to do my job as a medic.
- Diverting a critical patient to the closest facility violates company rules cause it pisses off the nursing home.
- Akways have assists for jobs that don't require one and can never get one for when you need one.
- The assign me a truck with no captain's chair and see nothing wring with that.
- Argue with me that I need to restock.
- Always threaten to write you up for nonsense.
- All my EMTs are fresh out of EMT school without experience.
- Supervisors are EMT-Bs or lower. They tell me how to do my job as a medic.
- Diverting a critical patient to the closest facility violates company rules cause it pisses off the nursing home.
- Akways have assists for jobs that don't require one and can never get one for when you need one.
- The assign me a truck with no captain's chair and see nothing wring with that.
- Argue with me that I need to restock.
- Always threaten to write you up for nonsense.
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Where can I find the Volly Big Hose Company #69 shirts.......I can wear that with my davy crockett hat and play ricky rescue with every car pulled over on the side of the road.
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Your last four partners had a month of experience. Combined.
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As a former NJ IFT emt, its made up of EMTs who will never do 911, volunteer buffs who could never get hired be professional 911 agencies and people with past felonies.
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...... if everyone you work with feels the need to explain and rationalize why they're working there, like it's an embarassment to be employed by such a place.
......if you're required to go in to the local hospital's ER whenever you have downtime, and ask to help out, so that you can change linens, empty trash, move patients and such instead of enjoying what little downtime you would otherwise have.
......if everyone you come across asks you why you would work for such a place since you're already employed FT in a 911 system.
......if the last time you boarded and collared someone was in EMT class.
......if you're a medic and have never started a line on anyone or dropped a tube since medic school.
......if transporting someone to the ED for any reason whatsoever, such as a NH pickup for "abnormal labs" or a G-tube replacement excites you, since you're actually bringing someone into the ED, like the 911 crews, getting triaged, etc. instead of taking people out of the hospital like usual. You feel like you're "doin' it."
......if you and your partner have arguments about when to wear gloves. For example, only when touching the pt and the straps, take the gloves off when touching the straps, gloves on when using the cot's handles, gloves off whenever touching the handles, gloves off when opening and closing the ambulance's doors, real Nazi crap.
......if neither of you know what to do whatsoever when you get flagged for an MVA between calls.
......if a nurse refuses to give you the pt's Hx, meds, etc. because it's a "HIPAA violation." (I've effected a few re-educations from their superiors in regards)
...... if everyone you work with feels the need to explain and rationalize why they're working there, like it's an embarassment to be employed by such a place.
......if you're required to go in to the local hospital's ER whenever you have downtime, and ask to help out, so that you can change linens, empty trash, move patients and such instead of enjoying what little downtime you would otherwise have.
......if everyone you come across asks you why you would work for such a place since you're already employed FT in a 911 system.
......if the last time you boarded and collared someone was in EMT class.
......if you're a medic and have never started a line on anyone or dropped a tube since medic school.
......if transporting someone to the ED for any reason whatsoever, such as a NH pickup for "abnormal labs" or a G-tube replacement excites you, since you're actually bringing someone into the ED, like the 911 crews, getting triaged, etc. instead of taking people out of the hospital like usual. You feel like you're "doin' it."
......if you and your partner have arguments about when to wear gloves. For example, only when touching the pt and the straps, take the gloves off when touching the straps, gloves on when using the cot's handles, gloves off whenever touching the handles, gloves off when opening and closing the ambulance's doors, real Nazi crap.
......if neither of you know what to do whatsoever when you get flagged for an MVA between calls.
......if a nurse refuses to give you the pt's Hx, meds, etc. because it's a "HIPAA violation." (I've effected a few re-educations from their superiors in regards)
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When you are instructed to post in the ambulance parking area of a hospital that your company does not have any sort of contract with so as to "see about getting some of their discharges." You are also encouraged to use the bathroom in the ER instead of the adjacent Dunkies so you can use your uniform as a company advertisement.
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Half of those have nothing to do with being private and everything to do with doing IFTs, which doesn't have to be through a private service.
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When the DO isn't even in Ems....
When the dispatcher spends more time on fb and asking u to keep your own times..
When the owners whole family is on the payroll and have no real job but make more then the medics....
When the dispatcher spends more time on fb and asking u to keep your own times..
When the owners whole family is on the payroll and have no real job but make more then the medics....
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If while on a "drop off delay" from IFT's to actually get lunch you notice your left front tire has cords showing and after telling your supervisor they tell you to finish out the shift then your partner with 10 years of experience as a "basic" throws a fit like a 12 year old and plops down on the curb refusing to even ride back to the station
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This is exactly what they have us do. They have never had one discharge out of these ER's yet we sit outside of them almost everyday and eat in there cafeteria and use their restrooms. Sometimes they'll have us go in and introduce ourselves and let them know we are in the area. We've also had our company have us go in the hospital and get names and numbers of 3 people so they know that we actually did it. Sometimes I just feel like going and getting three janitors names.
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Your truck's main 02 is empty and you dont have a wrench with which to change it and dispatch's response is "can you just take an extra portable? i need you to do a dialysis job asap"
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This is exactly what they have us do. They have never had one discharge out of these ER's yet we sit outside of them almost everyday and eat in there cafeteria and use their restrooms. Sometimes they'll have us go in and introduce ourselves and let them know we are in the area. We've also had our company have us go in the hospital and get names and numbers of 3 people so they know that we actually did it. Sometimes I just feel like going and getting three janitors names.
Wow I would not be pleased about that. The company now has a few full time account executive type people doing that sort of work thankfully. Talk about a way to ruin downtime, having to pin down some overworked ER staffer for his number is a great way to have the staff love you the next time you bring someone to that hospital.
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Wow that is Ironic. I actually had a partner do the exact thing with 10 years as a basic. He also than proceeded to call the owner two days later at 3:30am to say the tire still wasn't fixed. Needless to say he isn't employed by the same company anymore.
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That is too funny!! There seems to be a few trends around here. My old partner no longer works in EMS...lol
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I wouldn't ride back with a tire like that either.
One of you dropped the ball, tires should be checked at the start of shift
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"Do no further harm"
An ambulance crashing from a blown out tire definitely is doing harm. I'm with Sasha on this one.