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lol! Tut Tut Lovey

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What a load of dribble! How ridiculous! Just like to point out a few quotes I found interesting: Husband: “my wife can’t breath, she has asthma” First Aid Officer: “We save lives, I like saving lives” No, no you’re not saving any lives! In fact, the husband would have been better off driving her to the hospital then waiting for the first aid squad to pop on an 02 mask and drive her to hospital. If you carried something basic like salbutamol, chances are you could of left her at home. “Plus you get to drive with the sirens on” I lost count of how many times they babbled on about driving bells and whistles, I mean get over your self! If you’re lucky, you’ll only save a few seconds. Sirens wont save your life. “In the 120 hours of training you will learning anything you need to know to take care of someone in the field” Lol! What a joke! “It’s an amazing feeling being a volunteer” It’s also a good feeling knowing you’ve got a good pay check and you’ve helped someone. Does this state even have paramedics? Is there any ALS backup? When you’re at the hospital, get the hell out of the way of the medical team and give them room to actually do something that will benefit the patient. If I resided in this state, covered by these people, I don’t think I could sleep at night. What a mess.

Post exposure to what? Sharps, bodily fluids, infectious diseases, CBR?

This is a video of a rural fire brigade about 2 hours from my house being attacked by a group of underage, drunken, drug affected youths at a BMX event. They received a call for a car fire amongst a crowd at this event, the call was received from a resident of a neighboring property (seen helping the firefighters). The event is not a registered event, it’s advertised on MySpace and BMX forums, they have no security, EMS, event management is very minimal and underage drinking is encouraged. Upon police arrival they turned on the officers which lead to multiple patrons being capsicum sprayed and several youths arrested. Every year the police and fire service are called to this event, the local council plans on banning the event next year. As far as I know, a larrikin in the crowd made an offensive comment towards a firefighter then he turned the hose on him, the situation then escalated. The event is aimed at BMX riders, it is unfortunate that a small number of the crowd acted in such a manner. This type of attitude in recent times is being adopted in Australian youths. Every weekend there are multiple drunken, drug affected episodes were public members are severely injured or killed and emergency services workers turned on. It’s quiet sad. Please feel free to leave a comment on youtube.

The only EMS magazine I’ve seen in Aussie is “lights and sirens” which is posted by the state ambulance service along with your membership renewal. It’s just about how the service is going and so on, not at all clinical related and aimed at the general public. I have seen a few nurse ones floating around the hospital but can only imagine there published by the union and again have limited clinical relevance. Another stab at sports medicine. As part of your insurance they post you a quarterly magazine and yearly journal. The magazine is a waste of space, they put stupid, pointless articles in regards to data and statistics of how many athletes are injured in a certain sport or the rate of dental injuries and mouth guards. The journal is ok if you’re a professor of Sports Medicine. Nothing relevant that will broaden my education to aid the players at a grass roots level. Thumbs down to magazines.

Wow! American Subway sounds screwed up

Thanks Ok. Become a paramedic after EMT school, no good playing bandaid patrol.

Oh! And mmmmmmmmmmm SUBWAY!

Go down to your local EMS station and ask. Then do your paramedic. Also google a local school that runs EMS courses. What subjects did you do at highschool? Remember, write in proper sentences. Tut Tut :wink:

Australia has nothing like EMSstock. Would be interesting to go to one. I went to a sport medicine conference once, the worst $900 I’ve ever spent! Some professor from I don’t know were, was up the front banging on about something totally irrelevant, the chairs were un-comftable, the food was crap, I was underage and generally the whole ordeal was terribly fatiguing. Even the little promo packs were full of crappie, cheapo, useless stuff.

Has he had any sports drinks like Redbull, V, powerade?

I would have no idea lol... Google might help... I didn't say anything about the conditions! Some places are so understaffed that you work a lot of overtime, might work one up, have a backdraft of calls, on your days off your still on call and have an ambulance sitting in your front yard ect. Hell! Some places even send student paramedics, one up to Code 1 calls. Or you might have to catch a taxi to a to your next cardiac arrest... But over time pay pretty well.

Would you play an active part in recruiting paramedics in the Australian EMS system? Respect – Voted Australia's number one trusted profession 2007 Pay – Ok I guess, enough to live comfortably on. Education – 3 year degree as base line entry. Career Options – Quiet a few post graduate areas and in service training options which encumber your clinical skills or leadership/management skills. Yet we still seem to have a nation wide shortage? Australia needs you!

Or… you could order some gear, smash some of it up, write a abrupt letter to the supplier stating this is how you recovered it and your threatening to take legal action. They normally send a box of new gear for free and some other assorted items.

I could send you some syringes, if you add up all the boxes I'm sure we literally have 40,000 plus. We have 20 big boxes of IV Saline, massive box's of dressings, a whole filling cabinet shelf full of needles, cannulation and venipuncture gear. millions of mulitsticks and medical equipment we will never use... Only have 16 people in my class. We pretty much get what ever is expired/what they don't want from 3 different hospitals. They drag in garbage bags full of gear.

YAY

Midazolam!!

0700 1530 2200 All mean home time!!

Well I'm not a registered American EMT so do I still count lol? It annoys me that they know so much! Well it dosnt so much annoy me but makes me jealous, I can only aspire to have equivalent knowledge sometime in the future. Sometimes the way in which paramedics on here deliver information in an arrigont manner like they expect you to know... I haven't posted in a scenario thread for a while in fear of getting bashed like I have a few times. I'm 18, I've been in part time education as a student paramedic for 5 months, had a month off and now I'm working full time as a student nurse with part time class, been doing this for 2 months, so I'm sorry for not knowing it all and trying to have a go. I too found it extremely hard to fund my way though school, I almost dropped the paramedic course to work full time in a non related job but was fortunate enough to have an opportunity like my hospital based (paid) traineeship pop up. I found it hard to adapt to the city life while in medic school, it was in Melbourne which is 3 hours away from my little, sheltered life in a small rural town. This nursing traineeship is excellent! I'm working in my home town, living with the folks for free and I'm around friends, family and everything I'm used to, I still get to ride my dirtbike, muck around on the farm, try and roll the paddock basher ect with my mates. Even though this traineeship is only a nursing Diploma its a great bridging course into the nursing degree, it will only take 1.5 years after this course to get my degree and in the end only adds one year if I had of went straight into the nursing degree and if i'm lucky it will all be paid for! I fully intend on moving to Melbourne or a bigger hospital after I get my degree because I would love to work in a busy Emergency Department and maybe complete a post grad. I hate how people (on here and in real life) degrade people who take a different path to achieving their goals, I fully intend on become a degree Paramedic/ED RN but I'm doing it a different way, a way that suits me, it may take a little longer but I don't care. I also volunteer doing event first aid/first responder, have so since I was 11. We have ambulances, can give certain drugs, carry collars, defibs, resus gear, splints, trauma kits, enough to keep someone alive/comfortable until the paramedics arrive to transport to hospital. I do, at times wish we had a greater scope but accept that we are a BLS service. Over the years I have formed some pretty awesome friendships with people in this organisation, I enjoy doing some management stuff, volunteer training and so on. Not many 18 year olds have managed the EMS side of event standby at medium sized events (they haven't let me off the leash yet) or made a training plan. I also work along side some pretty cool volunteer paramedics, nurses and doctors who have a wealth on knowledge and experience yet some people still make derogatory comments towards the organisation and its members. Sure we have some whackers and the management at a state level can be less than desirable at times but on the most part the people I work with are awesome, amazing people with some great stories and life experience. I was also scared I wasn't ready to become a nurse/medic, maybe I didn't think I was mature enough? I remember sitting in on a paramedic lecture and thinking why the hell do I need to know this? I guess I was scared of failing. I thought I still had some growing up to do and to live life as a young person does, I see my friends who are learning to become builders, traders persons or just find a 9 till 5 job, it's pretty easy going, good money, they have a lot of spare time, don't really have to study, life pretty much revolves around having a good time, girls, beer and having a ball. This to me was so temping but I'm glad I'm doing what I'm doing. ** Bleeding heart over** :wink:

In my hospital the clinical staff use 'nurses pouches' which is like a belt thing. I have in mine, -Ward Scissors -2 pens -Microspore Tape -Nero Torch (The ones in the criticare monitor are always flat!) -Note Pad (Imagine Bristol stool chart lol) -Handover Notes -ID badge and security card -Gloves (I'm the only one in the hospital that has XL gloves, makes for very annoying times!) -Duress alarm and pager -Keys to the treatment room. When we finish pharmacology we'll get a palm pilot with MIMMS, drug room keys and various other things.

I guess I have a bias opinion to this issue, I’m young, still learning and really want a career in the profession. But going out of my scope to save one patient when I potentially have years ahead of me is out of the question, I guess it comes down to one mistake could screw up the rest of my life, I really have no interest in other industries. I don’t have the experience, education and so on to do so anyway. But who knows, in 20 years time I could look back at this post and laugh thinking to my self what was I thinking. Until then, I think it best to play by the rules. To anyone who practices out side the scope, good luck, it’s your prerogative. I just hope that you do have the educational ability, skills, decision making skills, experience, justification and willingness to expect consequences to do so.

Just out of curiosity

How long have you been a paramedic for Dwayne?

It’s pointless comparing nursing and EMS, they focus on different areas.