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Sounds like a good place to get your feet wet and see if it's what you really want to do when you do grow up into adulthood. Stay safe and listen carefully to what your trainers have to say.

Unless the Pt was not breathing at all , then i give a little [say .5 mg] to see if it counteract the resp depression, & titrate to keep them breathing on their own and not drastically removing the effect of the drug too suddenly. Give the full 2mg too quickly and end up with vomiting and possible aspiration. Thats just my personal experience. Now there are folks out there that would wait until just before arriving at the ER and giving the opiate OD a full 2 just to see them wake up pissed off & puking for the ER staff.

after doing some research on the Lincoln group of tech schools, results show as Mike said a large for profit diploma mill with many sites and many vocational training programs. Not sure what type or quality of education is received by students enrolled in their programs. Similar to many of the other tech schools out there. Before entering into an expensive training program a student needs to do their diligence before spending $$$$$ for the program.

are the nursing home nannies sure that only one of them gave the ole girl her evening meds? Support respirations as needed to bring her sats up and give her a wee bit of narcan to see if it will gently reverse the opiate without sending her over the edge. put her on a ECG monitor and watch for arrhythmia's to develop,. What are the rest of her vitals? Pulse ,BP ?? While we're doing the above: Send one of the staff to get her file and a list of all her meds and HX so we know what underlying issues we might be dealing with.

Check with the Red Cross in the area. They do offer first responder and other courses. At 13 you will not be able to do ride a longs due to liability issues

Depends on what the job at UPS is. UPS will pay better over the long haul with much better benefits. EMS will make you feel old quickly

What a magnificent place to live & work Happiness. +5 I can appreciate the views as we are on an Island off the coast of Maine. More populated than yours , but still the remote surf and rocky coast is always beautiful. Thanks for sharing that video.

Sorry if I'm being skeptical. What type of accreditation does the school currently have? What accreditation are you seeking? Is Lincoln College a traditional bricks & mortar university?

Welcome to the city. It is more than just a job to spend some time doing. It takes a desire to be the best & always continue learning. It takes a desire to help people in their worst times. [ at least to them] It takes long hours and lots of lost sleep. It takes many missed or ruined meals. It takes people skills on a level far from the norm. a 2 year or 4 year college degree program will be more beneficial that a 2 semester medic mill program.

I only carry the minimum: Gloves radio and pen. I do have a small pocket knife on me always if something needs to be cut. Let the young kids tote all the stuff.

It's been a long strange voyage through the past 4 decades. Met some incredible folks and been to many places . Seen lots of things that will remain with me forever. To to slow down a little and enjoy life with my wife and our Labs.

Page 83: good time to announce our retirement effective 31 Dec 2013. Good time of year to find some deals on new cars. My wife just bought a 2013 Dodge Caravan to replace her 2004 Explorer. lots of room for her & the dogs with all the back seats stowed in the floor, decent [25mpg +] gas milage, lot of nice features like bluetooth, in-dash computer& hard drive for photo or music storage and camera download. drives real nice & stable on the highway and room enough for me with 8 way power drivers seat and adjustable distance pedals & tilt wheel.

There are services that replace vehicles at 3 years or 150.000 miles and other places that go to 10 or even 15 years with a low call volume and mileage put on them. I know of a 14 yo type 3 ford chassis that sold from a rural volunteer service with 45,000 miles and factory dealer maintained. It went to a transfer service who put more miles on it the first year than it had over the first 14 yrs of it's life. Then there are some services that run a truck until it will no longer pass state inspection.

Hi Doug: I doubt that there is a "protocol " for replacing used units. I've worked on trucks with 300,000 miles on them that were in pretty good condition, & trucks with 50,000 miles that were complete junkyard material. With todays modern diesel engines and improved electronics packages they can last longer than in the past. Your location does have some challenges with the heat and sand environment, but not the corrosion issues some of us have to deal with with snow and road treatment chemicals that eat the underside of the chassis. A Fleet management rule of thumb is : when the cost of the repairs per year exceeds the value , it's time to go. With Emergency service vehicles it's more of a reliability factor. We need the vehicles to run every time and when the small items start failing you have to do the maintenance or replace them. planned replacement of components based on failure cycle can help eliminate some of these breakdowns, & in the long term save cost.

We have many items that are no longer in service. Most of them are from long before you were born. They are in our museum collection mounted on the wall. If an item is not safe to function as designed , it is thrown out & replaced. your little sheltered world is not the same as reality , unless you work for the empire of doom.

SAM splints are listed @ $13.99 in the boundtree catalog . With our discount we pay $7.82 with no shipping. No problems with them having smells or toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of them. Granted we are not buying one of items to stock a personal kit.

Welcome to the City. Feel free to participate now that you've introduced yourself.

your stolen design chinese copy more than likely has toxic chemicals in it as they don't care what they use in products exported to the rest of the world. Don't believe me google toxic paint and chemicals used in chinese toys and baby food products or pets foods and chew toys. Some of the things found include lead, arsenic cadmium and a veritable who's who of toxic chemicals. There is a reason it's cheap, they don't have consumer safety laws.

Welcome to the City. Try Cataldo or Trinity in your area.

made in china for everready Like everything else they take an American made product and steal the design and copy it without any concern for trademarks or patents.

Nicely done Trevor.

buy cheap chinese crap and thats what you get

Dwayne and others: It's not that the ghost have invaded my mind: But the fact that after decades of doing this thing we call EMS it does take it's toll on our physche. I don't care how strong you are , or how little feelings you have for your patients. I have always been one of those that could run the call no matter how bad and then move on. Last year I spent quite a bit of time with an elderly friend who's body was failing him. He was a brilliant retired 3 star Air Force general and as the months went on he began to fail slowly but steadily. His wife had set up hospice care for him , so he could be at home per his wishes. The last 36 hours of his life we took him outside to sit in his gardens in the warm sunshine and when the end was near , i called all his grandkids & told them to come say goodbye. We sat for a long night & when morning came he was agonal and opened his eyes & thanked me for being there for his wife & family. He stopped breathing 5 minutes later. Yes I cried and felt it deep to my core. Been there when lots of folks have passed and never felt that way before. Shortly after that worked a code on a friend who we got back over a dozen times and couldn't keep her going. We held her hands and then she would stop again for over three hours until we called it in the ER as the Doc and we agreed there had been too much down time over that long period. She was the wife of a very close friend who had died from cancer the previous year and she just wanted to go be with him. Yes again we cried and put another mark on the closet of our minds dark side. At our age it starts to be a guessing game of when your next friend, acquaintance of yours or former co worker will be the next obit you see. I hope to be able to spend a few more years enjoying life to it's fullest and then you whippersnappers can come take care of me & squint and the rest of us old dino's.

Hey squint:::: Glad to hear from you. Sorry that the skeletons in the dark closet of your mind are sneaking out to the forefront. I have some of the same issues after 4 decades plus and have just recently decided to retire at the end of the year before the classic burnout syndrome hits me, and starts to cause me to make errors in my care. Hope you can see the light and let a few of the black dreams out of the cobweb of your mind.

Welcome to the City If you do all your reading and are not sure of something ,,,just ask the only dumb question is the one not asked