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Don't knock the construction belt suggested. The original poster described carrying everything including the kitchen sink on his person. The belt I suggested is designed to distribute the weight much better than the standard duty belt. If you choose to keep so much crap on you why not at least use some brains and make your job easier. As far as your 22g why in the world was your response bag not properly equiped, did you fail to do a check of it or fail to restock. OOPs sorry my bad you said you messed up, but IV stuff should be in the response bag not on your partners person. Thank you for admitting more than one way to break a window, it is not rocket science.

organ donors oops 2 words

Wrong I part time with a rural service with maybe 250 runs a year. EMS is supported by billing transports and non-transports. The deficit is covered by about $60 per year per homeowner, aprox 900 homes. This service pays 4 full time with benefits medics, and has about 4 regular part timers and 2 or 3 of us that will try and cover a couple of shifts a month for them. Do they pay good, no not really, basics start at $9 hour plus overtime. So nobodys getting rich, but they're not holding other services back by being vollys. I hear it all the time at my primary service(about 700 calls a year and hospital is 90 miles away) , WHY CAN"T WE BE A VOLLY DEPT LIKE SO AN SO? So yes vollys hurt us when we try for pay raises, when we try and get more people on staff, when we try and better serve the people the coverage they deserve based on the taxes they already pay. That calculator you used is in my honest opinion probably controlled by communitys that are trying to avoid people being paid for doing the job, regardless of what is claimed. Not trying to argue with you but I to was a volly and thought the same crap you do. I started looking at the money the city and county wasted on holiday decorations, throwing partys and festivals, etc. That alone could have at least paid half of what it would cost to go payed service, the rest could have been covered by the billing. So I say if it looks like crap, smells like crap, it's crap. Or to be more polite if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, looks like a duck, its a duck. Sorry, I feel strongly about this for 2 reasons Myself and my family suffer because of vollys hurting pay, and because it makes me mad that I was stupid enough to think the way I used to. Have a nice day. Rantings of a tired old man will continue later.

You know you laughed and I just bet you've tried 1 or 2 of those. :twisted:

In court all you have to prove is it is the standard of care. B.... slapping someone is not considered standard of care. Most areas that I have seen you start sternum and try other areas such as running shears on bottom feet, not to cut them but see if response at extremities. I see so many posts saying trying to get person to stop faking, yes we do that, but painful stimuli is actually to determine a persons mental status. Some say should not leave any marks, a properly performed sternum rub will leave a mark. Just the ramblings of a tired old man.

I think you are asking "DOES" rather than "DOSE"? Might get better response. Welcome to the site by the way. I could be wrong, at least once before some on here claimed I was. :oops:

Darn it zilla now I got nothing to look forward to. Texas titty twister wakes em up quicker than anything. I never been brave up enough to do it but used to see a female nurse use it with great success when we brought in people that did not respond to sternum rubs, inner arm pinches, etc.

When you arrive on scene and find out it's somebody just w/o taxi money is there a good place to eat at nearby after you tell them no your not riding in my taxi umm I mean ambulance? :twisted:

How true.

Read the reports they entered an active seen w/o proper gear. That should never happen. Either crappy leadership on scene or earlier during training.

When they send a picture of your car and a ticket, send them a picture of a check, just fuzz out acct info or they'll electonically debit.

Whats internet? :?

Sad that crappy leadership allowed them to enter w/o proper equipment into an abandoned warehouse. 6 deaths for nothing, they were not even entering to rescue anyone.

Youngsters always think they need something new.

I meant to do that.

Don't that bite. The company collects all that money and lets you freeze.

awesome, just might work

Spend a little money and buy a good scrub top.

Some days the oldtimers disease slows me down.

OK Brain, Pinky called and wants to know what the plan for take over is this time.

Glad to have you here. With your current degree nursing should not take alot more time. As far as EMS, don't plan on getting a job as an EMT-B that would support you. If you choose to pursue EMS enroll into a paramedic program, but even with that income is not very good. As far as your history, a good lawyer might be able to help since things happened as a minor. But the tickets really could keep you from a job in EMS. Really check into it before you spend the money and time.

:thumbleft: :laughing6:

Do you have a medical director? To provide anything beyond very basic first aid, many places require a medical director to establish what your scope of practice will be. Have you gotten malpractice insurance?

Then you don't have time to become a good EMT or paramedic either. A quick course to get a certificate will only get you enough education to hurt someone. To be any good requires time and continual education.

Welcome to whackerholics. The 12 step Dust program explained in above post. Lets start. Hello my name is ___________, I am a whacker. But seriously is all this equipment carried by choice on your person or could you just make sure your jump bag is properly equipped at the start of each shift or is it really required by your service? All I carry is my cell phone, a knife just because I've carried one since before grade school and all the way through school and the decades since, and a pen. I have actually never had a time when being w/o any of those items would have kept me from doing my job. Everything else is in the bag or on my partner.