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Yeah, that’s right hose jockeys, you get to be second fiddle this time. If you’re good you’ll get a crayon to snack on. I noticed there were a ton of medical people in the Idiots thread and figured why not. Yes, there’s a thread for EMS in TGD but it’s not like there’s a thread shortage. And this one will have firefighters. I recently wrapped up a 6 year EMS career as an EMT-B in NY- sometimes paid, sometimes volley, never paid properly. I’m gonna miss it, but not the getting woken up at three am because an old lady fell down and went boom. And it figures, went six years without a back injury and three days after I finished I got stuck in bed for two days with crippling back spasms. Any of you guys still doing it?
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windshipper posted:Where’s my crayon? It’s so weird to me how much the EMS side of things gets shafted in favor of the fire side of things. The 3rd service place I just left gets maybe 10 percent of its budget from the town, to the tune of a little over 100k. The fire department would revolt if they got that little even though they do maybe a tenth of the calls we did. I never got a ROSC. All my codes were unwitnessed or otherwise futile from the get go. Best part of not transporting codes anymore is the easy cleanup, though. poo poo gets everywhere when you code someone in an ambulance.
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Oct 21, 2020 01:02
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windshipper posted:Where did you work? Rural EMS? As it is, I work rural/semi-rural, and even so I get like 1/5 to 1/7 ROSC. That sucks, but each it does make cleanup easier. Started rural, ended up doing most of my time in a college town in NY. Really missed the college kids this year, they broke up a lot of the monotony by doing the dumbest poo poo in the world. Went 0-9 on codes, but I also never had a patient die on me- if they were alive when I got there they made it to the hospital. We don’t even have specific EMS levies here, just a line in the town budget if you’re lucky. Tons of people think their fire taxes pay for it, but they don’t. Though a lot of the time people straight up think even the third service ones are part of the fire department.
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Oct 21, 2020 01:16
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Totally guilty of just putting 16 in for respiratory rate on my patients that are breathing normally.
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Oct 21, 2020 01:20
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Khizan posted:I think everybody does this. I was kind of surprised it never happened just from the ten mile stretch of NYS Thruway that I covered, but never had a fatal anything out there. I think it’s from having stupid good options for LZs, anyone who was hosed up enough to die got flown, and if they flew then it was like eight minutes to a trauma center. Even then, I did like two flight jobs there in six years, compared to like four a month in my half a year or so of doing rural EMS. I did figure if anything broke my streak it’d be a cyclist, though. The closest I had to someone dying was a bicyclist that got hit and run by a drunk driver and left in a ditch for close to an hour.
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Calvin Johnson Jr. posted:Hey guys, I'm currently an RN transferring from the ICU to a private clinic with 8-5 hours. My city has begun the biggest hiring class in over a decade and want to seize the opportunity to pursue the career I've always wanted. My only issue is this: I currently take diazepam PRN for muscle spasms. I've tried other medications and they haven't worked; this was literally my last resort. I would never have to use it on shift and take a very low dose at night when needed (literally 2mg-5mg, the lowest doses prescribed). Do you guys know if this will affect me in my hiring process? I want to emphasize I do not take this for anxiety and it has not affected my job as an RN. My doctor will be able to provide documentation showing this. However, having my legs spasm at night would affect my sleep pattern without it. Otherwise, I expect to do well on the written examination and am in excellent physical condition for the CPAT. Any input is appreciated, thanks in advance. It won’t gently caress you over on the drug test, if they even test for benzos the MRO report will just say “negative” since there’s a prescription. As far as medical screening I also doubt it would be an issue but I can’t 100 percent confirm that, depends on department policies and the doctor who’s running the medical screening.
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Jan 11, 2021 07:14
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Tagnik posted:feels like Firefighting isn't a popular topic at all It’s a text-based medium, it selects against firefighters. And they’re all too busy putting blue lights on their personal cars to ask someone to read a message board to them. I will never get tired of dunking on firefighters.
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Jan 15, 2021 00:07
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It’s alright, I saw the butt of most of my firefighter jokes rip a car door off without tools and I was like “I really need to stop making fun of that kid”. Actually we had fun. He volunteered in EMS sometimes and despite him being dumber than a box of rocks we had a fun but uneventful prank war that was mostly me setting traps with expired airway lube to slime him, or getting three people to help me musclefuck some drag dummies into his backseat. He got me back in a fun way when he ran extension cords through the parking lot and covered my car in strobing Christmas lights.
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Jan 16, 2021 21:47
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windshipper posted:
I spent so much time trying to unionize EMS near me and got nowhere. Switching to occ health and EHS was the best thing I ever did but every EMT I know is target fixated on being an RN. I do miss having fun rivalries though.
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Jan 16, 2021 23:02
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windshipper posted:My wife is an RN. I don’t know why anyone would want to be one. Getting your OHN and doing construction stuff is the way to go. Easy work and insane pay. If you’re up for traveling and long hours of reading the internet on your phone you can make 200+k working for Bechtel, easy. But all of em think they want to be ER or cardiac nurses and make their life about it instead of having some kind of non medical hobbies and taking some time off.
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Jan 16, 2021 23:20
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I literally bought one of my friends his OSHA 30 class as a graduation gift because he got his medic and was like “I don’t think I like going into a hospital”
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Jan 16, 2021 23:21
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windshipper posted:Yeah, she works at one of the ten busiest ERs in the country. Massive respect, but man... I’m good with dropping them off and driving away. It’s what I loved about EMS. I never took my work home with me. When the paperwork was done, bam, nothing else to be done
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Jan 16, 2021 23:29
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I’m doing my first ambulance shift since October because I’m a dumbass who can’t stay away from EMS and my new schedule gives me some extra time off. One day I will actually leave EMS and stay gone.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:23
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Depending on the state it’s sometimes not even the volunteer org that’s covering it but the state DOH cuts the check, the organization just wants a commitment so you don’t just join and bounce as soon as you have a card.
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Having the state pay for EMT-B classes if you’re affiliated with somewhere is the best way to actually end up with any. For most of the people looking to do it, 900-1400 bucks is a lot of money- especially for a job that pays sweet gently caress all.
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