LadyDragonFire

Grats on passing your lift test. when i first started i went to one county where i lived, and failed their lift test and it was a box full of weights also, and i was not even told i was walking into a weigh test!, but i went to the county next door who gave me a job with out question. i have Never had problems lifting my pts or stretcher. i think how the lift test if rigged it can work with or against someone. plus being short does not help. lol. Grats again keep up the good work and welcome to EMS.

Thanks everyone for the great replys and support. its nice to know that not every one treats their partner's like crap or worth less then crap. makes for a hard 24 shift. (almost done with one right now half (ish) way through. Fire i will try that next time will at lest make me smile.

It may be that i am a female, we live in a very country. he calls me a F&ing tree hugger lol. As for going to my boss (my Capt). She favors him says that i could learn a lot from him because of his military back round. My Lt knows that there have been full out and out fights with him yelling and cursing at me. and she is very upset, keeps coming to my defence. Right now the way our shifts are set up unless i were moved to another shift there is nothing they can to to split us up, and doing that would very much upset the other teams. so till then while we are at the station i am nose into the computer. on calls i put my patent care number 1 and cover his tail so the pt does not suffer. and enjoy the days he does a shift change or does not come into work. it would be nice to have a better partner, but i am not going to start waves. the days go by, we work 24 hour shifts so its only 9 days a month.. okay so i am reaching for the positive side of things. .. thanks for the concern.

I currently work for a transport group and we are allowed to first respond with our ems crews. the transport group has perm partners and the ems crews change partners every rotation. my perm partner is one of those jerks. between leaving the truck check for me to do every day, working it out so he gets lunch and refusing to go to the store so that i may eat, and leaving me with the majority of the pts. (we are meant to do every other and yet at the end of the day i have three or four more charts to do then he does). he is military reserve and as i have much respect for the military he barks orders at me as if i were a lowly private. funny think is on our truck i out rank him. he refuses to first respond with me on his truck despite the fact i am higher trained then he is, and have more experience, and we have been written up for not responding when asked to. and he never lets me drive. its one of those perm partners that i prey no one else has to have. i am almost thankful to report that he is shipping off with the military on Dec 1, so the count down begins. i hope he is safe over there and wish him no ill will. just want him off my truck. Thanks for listening to me vent Be safe out there.

Thanks for all the input. we were together long before we both started working for the same company so not worried about the just dating where you work and i agree with normally not starting a relationship from someone at work. mostly i guess i was looking to see if other organizations let married people both work there. and Thanks for the input on the basic to medic. i attempted to do it that way to start with. the systems that are with in reasonable driving distance (especially with gas prices as they are) will only teach basic to I then to Medic. They are not allowing the jump. thanks everyone for the input.

In the county i work a lot of the EMS workers are married to or dating other individuals tat work for the same organization. Myself and my significant other both work for the same EMS system. Where i work it is encouraged and supported by the owner of the company. Child care is even given during mandatory CMEs that both parents have to be on. The only restriction is that you can not be on the same truck as a family member/husband/wife/significant other. My organization is Very family oriented where we have fathers/sons/wives, and almost the whole family working together. I was wondering if it is like that in other areas? We are talking about moving and was not sure if other EMS organizations are as accepting of two members being together. Right now i am a Basic starting my I class then Medic, he is a Medic working on critical care. Is this normally okay?

i am right now in my medic class also. for our clinical hours and our ems hours you never really know who your preceptor is going to be. there are a lot of them that all run for this system and you get assigned to a shift and the one that happens to be working that shift. i have already done 6 different field ems rides and have had a different preceptor for each.

That type of test is already in place in my area. you have to make sure to pass a physical and a lifting test. they make sure you can move a pt, move a pt on a stretcher, and they check your breathing abilities... lots of stuff like that. if you don't pass you don't get the job. they also have a psy test, drug test, and things like that. i think its good. that way you don't get stuck with a partner that can't lift and you don't have to spend time waiting for lift assist. and if you can't pass you can work on it and come back, or you can not come back. seems to work around here.

My 1st, ride was a ride along while doing my basic class, 1st call was a 6mo old in full arrest. was also the 1st time i ever did cpr.