FireMedic65

Just play the race card like everyone else

some people think BBQ is anything cooked outside.. even on a PROPANE GRILL! *shudders*

Oh I know he was just messing around, but not everyone knows this and I'd hate to see someone get into trouble for trying to help someone with giving examples

great job! but is it just me, or do those study guides offer little to no help on the NREMT structuring of questions? I took the NREMT and studied out of several different books. None of which came close to how NR formed their questions. seriously though... DO NOT POST NREMT QUESTIONS You never know who is looking at these forums and sharing questions and or specifics on practical testing scenarios could land you into some SERIOUS trouble, as well as the forum owner. but yea, congratulations

People like that guy need to be taken out back and beaten with sticks. As for the medical director... that is great. He needs to travel around the country and get other directors on the same page as he is. EMS will never improve unless more directors think like he does. As for Memphis sucking... I always heard they had the best BBQ?

Yay!

why are you waiting a few year for a 3 month course?

*additional generic laugh gesture*

I have used quite a variety of laryngoscopes. Perks of doing clinicals at numerous locations. I have to agree with the disposable blades. Do not bother with them. If you want to replace them, great. A suggestion though would be to keep them around as a back up for those "just in case" situations. Now on to the case at hand. Are you a hospital based system, private or what? A lot of my clinicals were done from hospital based system, so we had the luxury of the autoclaves to clean our blades. I'm sure they would clean them for you too if you asked them at your local hospital. I personally prefer the reusable blades, the are more reliable in my opinion. Currently, we are using fiber optics and I love them.

My medic program was the same way. The class started out with 56 students. When we graduated, there were 20 left. Lectures were done by various instructors, but when we did skills stations, there were many more instructors there to evaluate each group. Usually we went into groups of 5-8 depending on how much help there were and amount of students.

Instructor to student ratio is very important. Lectures, not so much since only one person can essentially lecture at once. When breaking down into groups, it's pretty tough for one person to deal with many students. One instructor to no more than 10 students should be the max in my opinion. Any more than that, you are stretching your sources and will rush through things to every student gets a chance.

The only med I saw on my NREMT was Atropine. I will try to see what I can find for you though.

Sorry to hear. As Scotty said, work on your grammar and spelling. Human resources will see how you write and toss your resume away.

congratulations

not really in the right forum, but congratulations

Number of students is relative to the number of instructors.

Left an IV in a patient once

By scripted, I took it as you wanted to spoon feed all the right info to them.

GRAMMY HERE I COME! or whatever award they give to tv shows

I was just giving an example. I don't like it when people curse around females, I never have. I just find it disrespectful. Does it inhibit my job, most definitely not.

Well said. It's true. True EMS is boring to the general public. I don't do this to get a cheap thrill. I enjoy doing what I do because I enjoy it and helping people. Also I enjoy the challenge on myself. Now, I am sure if they truly depicted EMS from station living to response to treatment to BS'ing at the hospital. All the silly things we do and how we blow off steam, that might be pretty interesting

wow... that would drive me nuts! taking away from patient care to dictate a novel over the radio. I hate the mother may I system

Friend sent me this link and I nearly choked on my drink and pissed myself at the same time. http://themovieblog.com/2009/05/ladies-and...d-neck-tank-top

Exactly... it is uncalled for and completley unjust. What he did was way out of line, even if she was screaming and cursing or even calling him a pig. She call 911, and said she needed an ambulance. Her father was unconscious and was obviously flustered and anxious. I hope he gets fired, loss of benefits, loss of pension, fined, arrested and sued. Screw this piece of crap. Things like THAT give everyone was a bad name. No one remembers the good things we do, just the bad stuff. They associate all medic/firefighters/cops based on the ones they hear about on the news doing things like that.

I will give the show a try. Like every other show on TV about firefighting, EMS, police (drama shows not the reality stuff) is just that DRAMA. They are shows made for the general public that glorify these professions and are more often that not, grossly inaccurate in everything from proper medications to procedures and even the lead placements. These shows have to be made to keep the public interested with lots of action and the ooohs and ahhhhs. Let's just hope this show is better than "Saved". I made it about 5 mins into that show before I turned it off. I would have been more likely to watch a pile of shit on my TV than that show.