Just Plain Ruff

Your post is confusing, how are you going to get better as a driver except to drive? I don't know of many EMT jobs that don't require driving as part of their duties. Plus, what medical knowledge are you not keeping sharp while in nursing school. If I were you, I would concentrate on learning the nursing school part and leaving EMT behind because in Nursing School you will be learning so much more than what an EMT will learn. CEVO/EVO is not a bad thing to take, it will make you a better emergency operations driver but if you really are that crappy of a driver in real life, it won't make up for the lack of you being a crappy driver. I would personally start out with maybe a drivers education course to begin with. Of course this depends on why you have such a bad driving record - is it tickets or speeding or wrecks or what exactly is your issue? If you are going to come back with DWI - don't bother responding.

So I did some research on Money Orders and I think your money is good to go. Since Money orders are paid for either with CASH or a credit or debit card, the money is already been paid to get the money order. Unless they just got a program that prints out fake money orders which hopefully the guy didn't do. Here's where I got the info - Motley fool is sometimes a crazy stupid site but they do have some good advice and I think this is good advice here. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/12/how-do-money-orders-work.aspx

let's hope the money order isn't one of those craigslist scam things.

well I wish the best for you. I don't expect you to get your money, the old check's in the mail is a long old excuse but maybe you will get your money. Maybe not. let me know what happens.

Have you posted on their facebook page? I would blast it (pun intended) to the world. But when you have to request their phone number from their facebook page, that just screams scam site to me. What are you so worried about that people have to request your companies phone number in a facebook request. If you are a reputable business you should have your phone number posted for all to be able to call. but if you are a crappy company and your paychecks are bouncing, what you do is change your phone number, and then put on facebook that you have to request their phone number, then they can control who they give their phone number out to and if they cheated you or F'd you out of your pay, then they don't have to give you their number. Buyer beware I guess.

I think a lot depends upon the system you work in. if your ambulances are running non-stop all day and all night like many urban systems are - then yes I think they need to go for that system. You cannot have your medics/emt's fresh and alert running 16 calls a day. You just can't. If they cannot get at least a couple hours of good sleep at a time then you are doing your crews a grave disservice by making them work 24 hour shifts. if you have your crews running 8 calls in a 24 hour shift then theres room for discussion. It also depends on how many units you have on the street at one time. If you have enough crews running so they only will run 8 calls in 24 hours then don't get rid of the 24s but if all your crews are running 16 calls in a 24 hour period, then it's time to add more crews. The dynamics are fluid in any staffing situation. there is no guarantee that your crews will only ever run 8 calls in 24 and there is no guarantee that they will run only 16 calls in 24. But the risk of sleep related crashes or drug errors or just plain human related issues that can be directly related back to 24 hour shifts I believe are too great to keep 24 hour shifts unless you have other safeguards in place. Some of those safeguards could be 1. a number of swing shift crews/trucks that are put on the road on the heavy hours of the day (6a-6p, 3p-3a, 11a-11p those types of hours) 2. When you see that your 24 hour trucks have met in their first 12 hours a certain number of calls let's say 6 calls or so, they get a mandatory down time of 3-4 hours and are only pulled out for calls such as major trauma, cardiac arrests and major life threats and only if they are the closest unit. There should be a swing crew covering their area for their downtime. Depending on the type of area they cover this might not be feasible. 3. 24 hour trucks should not be used as transfer trucks if there are swing shift trucks available. And better yet, staff some BLS transfer crews to take grandma and grandpa jake and jane home from the ER. An ALS unit should not be utilized for a BLS transfer, this is a waste of resources. No offense to the EMT's on this forum but that's what they staff BLS transfer units with EMT's for. Again, no offense. 4. NO MORE SSM and sitting at the corner QuikTrip. I worked under SSM for a large portion of my career and I can say 24 hours in the cab of an ambulance SUCKED BIG DONKEY BALLS. I'll never do it again and I hope that no one here ever does it again either. I blame my permanent sciatica partially on sitting in the VAN ambulance at 23rd and Noland Road in Independence MO. I have more to say but if my bosses see me on this website, I'll get my ass handed to me and then I won't have to worry about sciatica anymore.

yeah, I hear you. their website pulls to a 404 not found you have to request their phone number everything about this company just shouts "RUN AWAY!!! - far far away"

So in other words, Blast Medics is not a reputable company to work for then. And my original post I wish I could update it. I'm thinking with your post, it's not a company I would want to work for. Have you contacted the better business bureau? At least lodge a complaint. I just went to www.blastmedics.com and got a 404 error which means their website is down or closed. sounds like a scam.

NO one as seasoned - or salty as Scubanurse.

well it turns out that they have charged the woman who told the officers that there was no-one in the home and allowed them to go inside. the prosecutor said that had she have said that there was someone inside then the officers would have gone in in a entire different approach. She is charged with 2nd degree murder. The guy was a felon who should never have been out but he was, his 2nd address basically was the missouri prison system. Both of those pillars of the community deserve what they get and got. The funeral and the outpouring from the community is simply incredible. 900 officers attended my brother in laws funeral in some sort of capacity or another(50 officers patrolled the city and county allowing every county officer to go to the funeral) and the same happened this time. While both officers lied in state, there was not a single minute where Gary's or Ryan's body was not without a honor Guard standing by over their casket. 24 hours a day every day till they were laid to rest. Humbling to say the least. After time to reflect, I'm no longer angry, I've forgiven both the men who did this, I'm more looking to see what can we do to end this all out assault on our law enforcement, public safety and correction officers lives. Yes they know that this can happen but it SHOULD NOT. What can we do as a society to decrease this? I don't really know.

Clinton MO, 03/06 7 months to the day and nearly the exact damn time of my brother in laws murder(also a Clinton MO police officer) at the hands of a felon in possession of a gun, we have another Clinton MO police officer gunned down while trying to apprehend a man in a home on a domestic disturbance. Two other Clinton officers were shot as well. the shooter is dead, hopefully one of the officers who were shot got off the kill shot. this makes me mad, makes me sick, makes me heartbroken, makes me bewildered and makes me cry. We ask ourselves why? Why the killing and why the war (in my opinion) on Police? I have no answers. I'm numb. I need to go home and take my girls to church, my son to youth and my wife needs to get over the flu. I need to sit in a quiet place and wait for my kids to get out of their AWANA's program. Hug your families, get home safely and realize that You are the only one of you they have. God bless all of ya, Ruff

Your program is inspirational. I so want to get involved.

congrats to you. and NEVER NEVER NEVER Let your national registry lapse for any period of time. I did and I regret it to this day. No way is this old fart going to go back and retake it, and thank god Missouri doesn't require grandfathered in medics to go back and get registry. I can still work in missouri at least until they get a wild hare and decide to make us all go and take the registry if grandfathered in. That will be the end of my having a missouri medic license.

The biggest trap people get into with those back braces is that they expect them to give them perfect posture and also expect them to keep the employee from injuring themselves. You must understand that those back braces are for guidance purposes only and they do not make up for Poor Posture/body mechanics/poor lifting technique. If you put your trust 100% into those (I think they are junk science based on several co-workers over the years being permanently injured while using them) you are going to get hurt. if you can make sure you only use the device to help guide your lifting/body mechanics then you should think about getting one but nothing makes up for strengthening your core abdominal muscles, back muscles and just plain strengthening, as well as nothing makes up for good lifting techniques. what do I mean by that 1. lift with your legs and not your back 2. lift with your legs and not your back 3. don't bend over when a squat would do 4. NOTHING makes up for having enough help on scene to do the lifting. If you don't have enough people for the bariatric patient - get more help. If you don't have enough people to safely lift your car wreck patient and then move them safely to the cot, then get more help. NOTHING I wish you the best in your career, My career was shortened due to chronic back pain from having only myself and my partner lifting the majority of patients when we were on calls since it was just me and my partner. I can still do the job but I hurt badly after a shift anymore - so I lift a laptop now as an IT consultant for Emergency rooms and hospitals.

I remember being able to go to the local pharmacy, tell em you needed Novahistine with codeine and they would sell you a bottle. I could do it on a daily basis if I watned to back when but I think the last time I was able to do that was in the early 1980's if not the 1970's. My parents would tell me to go get a bottle of novahistine and bring it home. I also remember a pharmacist at the local Bruce Smith Drugs who gave me 90 days worth of all my medications instead of just the script amount. To say it was not well regulated or watch-dogged is an understatement.

I did a couple of stand by's at junior high and High school football games, Was asked several times if I would give the return to play authorization and I refused. I told them that I was no where near qualfied to make that level of decision. Pissed the coaches off to no end and they usually would call the parent of the player down on the field and the parent would make the decision. Needless to say, they didn't come to me after I refused the 5th time. Not putting my license in jeopardy when that type of decision is WAY the hell out of my scope. The liability is just too great and any EMS system making these types of decisions are taking a HUGE risk. I know of a ems system that was stand by at a rodeo. A young boy was hit pretty hard by a medium sized bull, the medics said he should not be riding anymore and needed to get checked out but he and his parents just took him back to the trailer and had him lay down and rest. The family left him alone and went back to the rodeo. When they returned the young boy had died and I believe it was ruled as closed head injury or maybe a bleed.

To add a little more into the mix, there were 2 of the most respected physicians(one was the patients own physician) on scene with us, they left their offices to come help us. And let me tell you, they were really big helps. (hope you read the sarcasm) Competing orders, trying to sign papers to get him transferred directly up to the city so those big city docs could take care of him but we weren't about to transport this guy to the city on a flatbed. In the end, he spent 3 miserable days in the ICU at our facility and finally passed.

Yeah, there is that. But they said it was Sepsis that killed him but he was in no condition to fight that infection.

Yeah, that's at the other site - the voldemort site, that which won't be named.

Jeesh, conflict and you run away? really. That's quite adult of you.

Well I'm going to sit back and watch this one play out. I knew dust personally and usually the people who took most offense by his comments were those who knew they were true but didn't want to admit that their preconcieved notions of how great EMT's and medics are, and how they should be able to challenge any nursing test or do the same job as nursing is just a idiotic thought process. it's like those meme's out there with a bloody ambulance and the caption is saying, we do everything an ER can do only better and at 70 miles an hour. Well that's a stupid meme and holds tons of untruths. Until we can do everything an ER Can do mobilly, then that meme will remain untrue. Dust was a tireless advocate for further educaiton for medics and emts. Taking one discussion of many of his and criticising him for those comments is also undeducated and assenite. (is assenite really a word?) Dan I hope that you stick around and look up more of Dusts posts, you will find that your opinion of him may change. Or the single thread that you read may have poisoned your opinion of him forever. Either or, makes no difference to those who knew Dust and understood where he was coming from know that he had EMS best interests at hand and heart. He did not suffer fools lightly. I wonder what he would say to this thread being resurrected and live again? Anyone know a psychic who can talk to the dead?

yep, but 11 years, thought maybe it would have been something more recent. Dan Rolden, please don't take my snarkiness to be indicative of the response back on posts, we welcome anyone who comes in to the site with fresh eyes, fresh opinions and fresh outlooks. Hoping you won't think that my response to your participation was to keep you from participating. We need all the fresh posts that we can get. I wish to welcome you to the site.

I think this might be the oldest necro'd topic we've ever had here. 11 years to get someone mad enough to respond. That's got to be some kind of record.

good to have you here 556Nato. I bet your user name has some pretty significant things behind it. It's good to have a RRT on board - been a while since we had one here. And we welcome most anyone with your type of experience. You can probably teach us a few tricks. Later gater