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This is information you should have received from your employer. Orientation generally consists of review of company policies and procedures, benefits (if applicable) and any specific training that may be required. Whether this is what will will happen to you or not is something I don't think anyone here can tell you. You'll find out when you show up. Unless they've told you otherwise then you dress for success. It's easier to take off a tie and open a shirt collar than it is to find one when you've shown up in jeans and a t-shirt. This is a job. Be a professional. Start from day one.

I wouldn't go so far as to say don't treat the patient at all; I'd be comfortable in calling this hypertensive encephalopathy. The first line should have been the narcotic of your choice, both for the headache, and for any associated anxiety, but if the symptoms persisted after an appropriate dose without change and N/V still developed...I think treatement is warranted. Esmolol might be the better choice, especially prehospital, just due to it's quick onset and short duration, but as long as it was remembered that reaching a "normal" BP is not the goal (25% reduction in MAP at the most) and that it doesn't need to be instantaneous...I say treat this one. Edit: medscape has some good articles on hypertensive emergencies/encephalopathy http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1952052-overview#showall http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/166129-overview

ACtually you can take NREMT six times. You just have to take a refresher course after the third attempt, which you'll have to pay for as well. So that's 70 per test attempt and however much (usually 100 or more) for the refresher. And I didn't see any snark. The rules are laid out pretty clearly from NREMT for anyone who bothers to read them.

Wasn't any snark involved. Just the facts The test is written to an 8th grade reading & comprehension level you do have to pay the testing fee no matter how many times you take it, You cannot retake the national registry exam 6 times. EMT-B is an entry level position.

nope you are paying for the testing center again no matter how many times you need to take a test written at a 8th grade level in order to get an entry level job. you had better reread the rules. you do not get six tries to pass the test.