Diazepam618

Hear that, are turn is at 0500 hrs, because of traffic issues, but probies must be there around 0400 and strat coffee.

Does anyone work for a native american agency?, and if so what is the pay and benifits like?

What are talking about, it's just a paramedic progarma academy nothing to do with fire, maybe they just want to elminate fat medics who knows.

Depends where you go, Riverside comm college has a paramedic program with some pt, and if you can't pt your out.

What you don't have any bills, or do you still live at home with mom and dad, look buddy I have a car payment , wife/kid and girlfriend on the side and guess what it all cost money.

This is real fire based ems at it's finest 46, this is why these guys make $$$, and have a great pension.

I don't get it what is the rest of the country doing that is so amazing are they eliminating medical directors and making up their own protocols?, are they taking x-rays in the field, are they drawing labs and have the values ready when they hit the er door? are they casting broken limbs with in the field or perscribing meds?, what is it that is so better? Yeah come on patient care is noble and all, but people really do this for the money, you got to pay bills thats all Iam saying, but the other thing that gets me is when all this change is going to come about, I just don't see it happing like a two year degree min. for $12.00 an hour who is going to do that when you can get an RN two year degree and make so much more. and why should we in fire base ems not make the money we do?m we do two jobs, cheaper for the city thats why we wliminated single role paramedics, that model works where I live, maybe not in other places.

Well, the base is on LAFS.org, but we have a five year step program 4 years into it myself, and really doesn't cost that much to live in Los Angeles with the housing market the way it is, infact my mortgae has about 6 years left and then I'll sell when the markets back up and make more bank lol, but really it's a sweet gig out here even though were not progressive to so many, I say make all you can until it's gets progressive and things change, but waite it's been 30 plus years and thing are the same, guess I'll just make as much as I can.

I know you have read my posts about how and why other professions have advanced their education and I am really puzzled that you claim to be pro EMS as a FF but can not seem to see them as medical professionals. If you do not want to advance with EMS then you really should consider if you only got the Paramedic patch for a few extra dollars from the FD for your pension and not for the patient care aspect of the job. Your posts lately have only been about what the job can do for your bank account and not what you can do for the patient. Even when you were talking about getting a degree as an RN or RRT in other threads, you mentioned very little about the job or the patient care aspect. Neither you or Diazepam618 are a credit to Fire Based EMS when you fail to realize there is a patient involved.

Has anyone been watching First In, great show real hero's to say the least.

If you want to make some $$$$, get your RN, if you want to be a hero get into medic school as fast as you can so the FD can pick you, but if you want to make peanuts be a private medic.

Well my regular work hours are about 10 twenty-four hours shifts a month a couple of overtime shits maybe three a month and Iam at over 100k ayear with about 17 days off a month.

Lacking national standards makes us look like even more of a joke to insurance which keeps reimbursement low and our pay low. What low pay?, I make over 100k a year.

At my station we drill, drill and drill, and run calls in between drills.

LOL, my bad butter fingers I say, but what kind of standard is there, I mean some places you get a two year degree in ems, and others you take an eight month to a year long votech class, some places require the NR and others don't. For most fire gigs where I work all you need is the state level license to be considered for a postion, So what is the standard? if you apply for a RN gig the min standard is a two year degree, we in ems have no standard not even a min with the NR. Frankly I think the NR is a joke and a scam, if it wern't so why wouldn't all states require it and all employer require that you have to maintain it?