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Personally, I don't feel the need to address anyone by a rank in EMS. Yes, you do need some sort of internal 'rank' in any organization (be it private, sargent, general, etc or associate manager, assistant manager, manager, general manager). Specialization is nice, and some things are not worth the trouble to semantically redefine (Field Training Officer, for example, could probably use a better name). The company I work for doesn't really use military ranks in name (besides FTOs, and arguably the term "crew chief) with the management functions bearing management titles (operations manager, training coordinator, etc), but they do wear military ranks on their lapel (FTOs wear an "F.T.O." pin on their lapels).

EMTs save paramedics... from doing manual labor.

No, but I do show up to interviews in at least a collared shirt and tie, normally a coat too. I wash my clothes, I hang them up thus avoiding wrinkles. It's not like I look like a bum or anything when I go work or an interview.

None of the posts before this was bashing EMT-Bs. Simply put, unless you have an expanded scope of practice, pushing IV medication is out of the scope of an EMT-B. If you do not want to listen to people disagree with you then don't post a topic on a discussion board.

I read it and have three thoughts about it. 1. Use paragraphs. If you break that chunk of text into smaller parts it will be a lot easier to read. This is the problem that a lot of people just don't seem to get. More people will read, understand, and respect an opinion when it is easy to read. Run on sentences, really poor spelling, and paragraphs that never end makes people not want to read a post. If no one wants to read it then you just wasted 3 minutes of your life typeing it out. 2. I've never understood why people don't make at least an attempt at writing correctly. I'm not asking for footnotes, overly complex sentences, or even not using slang and contractions like you should in academic writing, but just using correct spelling and sentence structure. It really doesn't take that much longer to type and once you start typing like that then you end up not having to think about typing correctly, you just do. 3. I've never gotten people's obsession in this job with looking perfect. We face being covered in fluids, scuffing our boots, and half a dozen other things every day we work. I've given up shining my boots (which, to be honest, never were that shiney in the first place) and will never iron my uniform. As long as my partner has bathed, brushed their hair, shaved their face (if a guy), and has a clean uniform on, what else matters? I doubt that the one thing that strikes onlookers at a scene is how well pressed the responder's pants are.

Are you calling me a cracker?

To answer the origional scenario, I would turn the money in. I used to work as a box office cashier in high school and my first year in college. I'd have, on average, $6-7k in sales (cash, gift certificate, and credit) go though my register. I also helped set up and verify the drops (money is regularly taken out of the cash drawers, counted, verified by another employee, then dropped into a safe till armored transport arrives to transport to the bank). The drops were up to $15k depending on sales volume and time since last drop (sometimes the manager couldn't pull money out of the register as often as they should have. The drops were generally about $5-10k). To be honest, currency (the paper symbol of money) means very little to me because I've seen so much of it that wasn't mine. Never once did I think about stealing from my employer, video cameras or not. If I had a patient with that much money with that condition, I would just seal it in an envelope and document it (out of site, out of mind).

^ Depends on the offense and depends on a job. Potentally career ending mistakes are made all the time, especially in defense industry jobs (ex: engineer working on a black project [i.e. 'doesn't exist'] accidently brings home a document that hasn't been registered yet with the security officer, but is supposed to be secure [ex. draft]. If you attempt to bring it back to work there is a chance you will be searched on your way in. If you get caught, you'll be fired and possible prosecuted. Alternatively, you can burn it and bury it, and no one else will know the difference. Which option is the ethically right one and which one is the practical solution). To be honest, people need to be able to be hired after they are released for prison. Are there places and jobs that ex-cons shouldn't work? Sure. "Hi, I'm an ex-child molester and I'll be your substitute teacher today," isn't going to go over real well, but if they can't find a job then we might as well sentence most people to life in prison.

^ Since you didn't put a location in your profile, you're going to need to define where "here" is.

Well, I know AMR does 911 for Riverside. The downside, besides not being a government employee, is working in Riverside.

Meh, I can live with being tasteless.

I'm trying to figure out how posting a screamer video isn't tasteless.

They still need to check for breathing!

quoted for truth...

I'll just wait for the sub-q RFID chip

I guess it only shows up immediately after you make the post because it's gone from my earlier post.

As far as a ceremony or anything? Nothing here. I think they just handed out the course completion certificates and went over what we needed to do for NREMT and the local cert.

click the button on the top right corner of the post. Click yes. Mission accomplished.

Assuming a clean record, it's time to send the medic on an unpaid vacation. There is nothing I can't stand more then people just signing their name and not doing what they signed off on. My very first job was at a movie theater and I refused to sign the paper stating that I received a manual and was trained when I hadn't (standard HR paperwork, nothing shady or anything). Interestingly enough, I was placed in one of the most coveted departments, box office. Even now, I will not sign something like a unit checkout sheet if I didn't check out the unit. My signature means something at least to me. Now I don't believe that she should be terminated over this. I can see the entire, "I'm one of a limited number of people who have access to it (only person?), I wasted it, there is no reason that that shouldn't be the right drug" argument. It's not entirely valid because the employee's job is not to assume that everything is there just because they were the last person, or trusts the last person, to have access to the drugs. Oh, and a memo definately goes out to deter anyone else who thinks their signature means nothing.

^ Today's PSA film, The Russians and your friend, Polonium

Here's the problem. You can't just let him sit there. You can't just let him go. You can't shoot him or beat him with a stick (no matter how tempting). If he was draged out by the police then you would still have the students complaining about it and you would subject the police to injuries and still subject the subject to injuries. Until they have telekinesis, I don't think that there was a better option besides the suspect obeying the officers.

That's a negative ghost rider. You are right in the sense that the US government is very limited at regulating speech in the USA. This, however, is a private internet forum. It is private in the sense that the government does not own it, an individual owns it. He, and his delegates, can limit, edit, change, charge, or control this forum how ever they feel fit. Furthermore, if you think being a US citizen grants you an unlimited right to protected free speech, then might I advise you to not leave the boundaries of the United States. I'm sorry, but I've seen the "free speech" argument before. It is quite possible one of the most asinine arguments ever made on any internet forum. I now return you to the hijacked thread now focusing on "[insert region] basics are better" that is hopscotching to "[insert region] paramedics are better" Ah, stupid week on EMTCity continues (this is in reference to this hijack and a few other threads out there).

Because that ambulance that is responding to another call should stop what it's doing and help out at the accident. Of course this would delay care for the call that the ambulance was dispatched for, but what the hell, you get to stop at an accident.

1. Replace meds. 2. Review personal files to determine if there is any sort of pattern of carelessness. 3. Interview the involved parties, have them submit incident reports. 4. Discipline [i can't think of a better word at the moment] (anything from "don't do it again" to termination depending on the involved parties personal history while leaning heavily towards the "don't do it again") 5. Review current policy and procedures (maybe there's someplace better waste meds then the bathroom, especially if medication handling is becoming a problem (read: cameras). 6. Send out a memo reminding everyone of proper procedure and what the roles are responsible for. 1-6. Notify proper authorities/oversight agencies as appropriately. Personally, I'm of the opinion that mistakes will happen no matter how idiot proof the system is. I'm willing to bet that everyone, at some point in their life, has made some really stupid mistake, some easily fixed while others possibile life threatening. There is no need to have some sort of set punishment if it is reasonable to believe that the mistake was simply a mistake and everyone has learned from it.

More biology actually. Your eyes detect differences in light from the ambient enviroment.