Just Plain Ruff

Actually, hardly anyone ever searches before they post. It's human nature to not search before posting. Everyone thinks that their post is the first that has ever been asked. So don''t beat yourself up. What Dwayne was sayin is that if you did search you would have found that there was a lot of stuff out there already about this. But hell, 80 questions and it cut you off, you thought you failed and in reality you passed. I see a pattern in the registry here. Those who seem to get cut off at 80 seem to pass. Those who keep going, seem to fail. But kudos, congrats, way to go, awesome job, now, stop studying, don't even crack a book, if you don't know the right sequence to do something then you won't learn it in two days. Just relax, spend some time with friends, eat your last meal, and then go take the registry test. Even if you fail a station or two, just relax and go retest again and pass it. You obviously know it. Just don't get too stressed. Honestly, I think we place too much stress and emphasis on this one test. Just go in and take it. Breathe in, breathe out, wax on, wax off, Do the Mr. Miyagi dance, Daniel San.

I have found just by reading the posts here that even though we in America think that our educational standards are pretty high, our EMT or even Medic wouldn't even really get us in the door in another country to go to work. I'd be interested to really get a good cross comparison as to what our EMT-P training would be comparible to in each of these countries. UK France Australia New Zealand Canada Germany Ireland Etc I know that it would be a stretch to get this done but this would be a pretty good project for someone who had the time to do. This way it could be something that those here who wanted to maybe go and work in another country could at least have an idea as to what they were going to need to do educational wise in order to pass the muster in another country in order to work. Anyone feel like taking this on? One other additional piece to this would be the remote medic qualifications piece as well. As some of the medics here might want to eventually pursue that career path as well. AK or Dwayne could contribute to this section.

All the good intentions aside, the possibility of having a major MCI In your district is as distinct as your house being hit by a tornado. So put that into perspective when you decide to put this into effect. If you are going to put together a MCI trailer or Whatever you deem you need make sure you have a spreadsheet or form that lists out each item you put in it and it's expiration date. Then you need to have someone in charge of that form/spreadsheet. The next time you look at that spreadsheet is at least 2 months if not three months before the first item that is on the list expires. If there are medications then those meds need to be looked at 6 months prior to expirations especially if they are on the national shortage lists such as zofran to name just one. Any food stuff should actually be on it's own trailer in my opinion. A spoiled foodstuff renders medical equipment spoiled until checked by biomed or a qualified medical person. Would you want to put medical equipment that had been exposed to spoiled foodstuff's on a patient? I think not. The medical college of Virginia has a incredible MCI setup that I have a Powerpoint on but it's a huge file that I can't save on this site because of size restrictions that the city has. But it is a incredible setup. I might talk to admin about it.

Great clarification JP thanks

An idea whose time has come. No different than the rolling medical clinics in rural areas. This guys just capitalizing on those people who party to excess in the party capital of america.

CHBARE speaks volumes of yes he knows what the heck he's talking about. Do what he says.

This has been covered in previous postings. Do a search for national registry test and you will find many many threads on this subject. You probably won't get many responses to your post here.

You should be able to CLEP the math classes. You should ask about that. Maybe you already have. Maybe not. I believe most community college A&P classes, chemistry classes and the like will transfer as long as they meet the criteria of hour per hour basis. I'm not sure about that. Maybe you got the wrong advisor at the new school you are looking at goign to. Maybe you should request a new advisor. Just like in medicine, you can always ask for a second opinion. Sometimes one person doesn't know what the heck they are talking about. I'm sure you've seen that in the military right???????? know what I mean, nudge nudge, say no more, My advice is to get your Basic college level courses knocked out at a accredited state community college or 4 year college. That way you are guaranteed that your credits will transfer

But we're just talking taking the skills test right? If it was me, this is EMT level stuff here. I would try to find the prep course. This is only me talking though. I would be looking for a prep course to take the skills test. But the rational part of me says CH is right and retaking the EMT class would be the logical thing to do but that's 4 more months and 800 or so more dollars and money's tight these days. So for me personally I'd try the prep course and see what happens. Worse case scenario, I'd fail the test and then have to retake the EMT Course altogether anyway. So what does he have to lose anyway. But the advice I have to the OP is this. And this is advice from me only. Find a prep course, take the test, if you pass then jump right into medic school at a degree granting college. Do not go to a medic mill program that will give you nothing but a medic cert where you will have nothing but a piece of paper to fall back on. Get a good grounding in the college level courses. If you can swing it get your medic as well as a Bachelors degree. That way, when your back goes out you have the fallback of a college degree to use in interviews to get that job that will hold you through till your back heals up. It's your career, get your degree. Don't base your choice of a career on a single post on emtcity.

So did word get out that there's pictures floating around out there with him going in after the beer?

The other option CH would be for him to find a NREMT test prep course. I took one one week prior to my registry test and it worked wonders. I have no idea where to find one of these little workshops but they have to be out there. I can't see the need to retake the EMT Course when all he needs to do is retake the skills portion of the test. I may be completely mis-reading his question though. Because if he retakes the EMT class won't he have to retake the written again? I took this registry prep class, took the practical test and passed it first time. Of the people in the prep class (25 of us) 23 of us passed first time. 2 had to retest one station. OF the 200 or so people who were testing that day of the test, over 150 had to retest at least one station. So I would suggest that he at least look into a registry test prep course if there are any in his area. If there aren't any available then Yes, a retake of the EMT would be in order.

There you go again, wanting to drop that tube down the guys Gob

If you are gonna get some forceps, just keep em in a separate kit in the ambulance. Don't carry em on your person. Your gonna lose them if you carry em.

Aint it!!!!!

YOU need to insist on being able to give pain meds too. Don't forget your transfer from hell. Remember that one?????

Yeah we save lives for a living, we r fire guys, we drive big red fire trucks and go were others won't. Wer'e heroes. Some of those he trained without even training are even volunteers and they do it for free. So come on, give the guy a break. He did nothing wrong, it's happening all over the state, my guy just happened to get caught.

I find anything with more numbers is the better one to apply for. But seriously, I'm grandfathered in for the state of missouri so I only have to relicensure via CEU's for the state of missouri so I'm not a bit of help here, just paddin my post counts. But I'm really proud of ya RWT. Keep at it brother. Call me any time.

Believe it or not, I was actually very good friends with my last services medical director. We had similar personal and philosophical views on almost everything. It was at a time when I was without health insurance and he was without a computer repairman so it was a symbiotic relationship. A working paramedic to medical doctor to med director relationship as well as friendship. Yep, a good relationship.

Yep there is that as well but with a service with only 800 calls which pays the director a set fee and he only has to work 20 hours a month, it makes it pretty cushy. But yes, easy target as well.

1 year of probation in lieu of two years jail. What a bargain

I never did like the two bell kind of stethoscope. I can count on one hand minus two fingers the times I used the second bell.

JP you are talking about a medical director who probably this is probably his only gig. Being medical director for your county is a huge job. I don't know how many calls your county runs but I believe your county is pretty big. They services I was referring to are pretty small. The one where this doc is so involved in may run only 800 calls in a single year. The total number of calls this director I referred to has to oversee may come to a grand total of about 10K total. Of which maybe 10% need to be reviewed or whatever. STill pretty lucrative if you ask me.

When I started as a brand new emt, 20years ago i did indeed fall into the whacker category. got my medic and fell into whacker again because I went pretty much directly from emt to medic. AFter a year or so ago, had a mentor medic tell me I looked like a douche bag for all the equipment I had on. That was paraphrasing it a bit. After parting with most of the equipment I purchased (lots of money went down the drain). Here is how I got rid of it. I gave it away to new students, I perpetuated the whacker myth and gave hemostats, shears, pen lights, sam splints, bandaging supplies and all the supplies out of my whacker bag to up and coming whackers and new emt's. they were grateful. Then I realized that I was perpetuating the myth of Whackerdom and I didn't want to be a part of that. So once I exhausted my supply I started a whole new mission. That mission was this. I decided to give knowledge away. I bought a box of field guides. For those medic students and emt students who couldn't afford those guides I would give em my slightly used guide and I'd take a new one out of the box I had. Sure, the one they got was used but it came from the heart and isn't that the best kind of gift? They were all thankful. You can always tell a cash strapped student, the kind that comes to the clinical and skips lunch, or better yet, brings their own peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I went through about a box of emt and medic field guides a year. Another thing I was able to do was this, I worked at a hospital and we had the major text book companies come through at least once a year. They usually had a stash of books that they were looking to get rid of. I was able to usually get most of their books each time that they came through. Medic books, emt books, cardiology texts, nursing texts. Hundreds of dollars of books that were no longer in print because the new versions were out and they were just giving them away. I usually came away with at least 10 - 30 books at a time and this was from a single publisher. We usually had 4-6 publisher sales guys come in each year. I would hand out books to students if I determined that they were having problems in specific areas and I had a book for that. I still have a number of those books in my library.

There is an area in middle missouri where one physician is the medical director for at least 8 different EMS agencies. He's directly involved in 4 of them ergo involved in the day to day operations and he's involved in only the periphery of the other four only. IN at least one of them he visits them on a weekly basis. I know that for that one service that he's so involved in he's getting paid much more than the other services. He provides the services with generic protocols and each service decides what they want their medics to do and then he develops the protocols to fit the services. RSI or not Cric's or not What narcs they can carry etc etc etc. He's a well respected physician with a position at a level 1 trauma hospital in central mIssouri. He's also a adjunct faculty at the University as well. I'm not sure what other services he is the director for but if he can cover for 8 services I'm sure he covers for others as well. It seems like it would be a lucrative deal for a doctor.

I for one would leave the probe and go in service. in the case of Neo, I would also leave the probe in, Screw Neo, I thought he was a jerk to begin with, let the spiders eat him. I'll pop open a bunch of beers, open the back of the ambulance, start an IV and give myself and my partner the supply of fentanyl, versed, morphine and valium and whatever else we had because if those spiders are gonna kill Neo then they are gonna kill me to and I'm gonna be HIGH when I die because I don't think I can defend myself with an oxygen tank, a 14 guage needle and a vial of Sux. So when I die, I might as well fell good before I die.