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Basic Before You Move To ALS?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by dr-exmedic Nov 14.
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Here, let me help your finger: the difference is, all of those other programs assume they're going to have to give you all the education and experience you need to be an entry-level RN/MD/DO/PT/OT/dentist/chiropractor. There's no reason a good par...
Well, until someone can tell me otherwise, that intangible part will remain in the same caliber as that intangible "charisma" that gets you on the cheerleading squad in high school.
Yes I'm bitter. My legs were sooo less fat then Becky's and I was...
I wasn't intending to make the skills sound unimportant because they are important. I was trying to elude to the thinking that what will help (or at least helped me the most) the most as a Paramedic student is the assessment skills (breath sounds,...
Okay, now I'm confused.
Putting on a traction splint, without causing movement, without putting someone in horrible pain, or just normal splinting, or bleeding control, these AREN'T an Art that need to be practiced, what really takes the years of...
I don't think its so much the performing of the psychomotor skills that makes the difference. The difference comes from the EMT who learns how to perform a great assessment and exchange information. There is an art to assessing and being able to i...
So Derek, you were an EMT for 15 years and are now finishing up your paramedic program. I was an EMT for five years and have been a paramedic for five years. So now, I have five years of ALS experience more than you. So how exactly did your decade...
Sure we can make meaningful comparisons between paramedic education and other health care professions. The problem is that most people aren't going to like the conclusion.
I was wondering if you have to be a basic EMT before you move up to ALS if it was strictly on your own time Ex.) Volunteer?
I believe the current paramedic education system in most of the country deficient. Based on previous posts it doesn't seem like there's enough people who want it to be longer than it is now. I wish we could make meaninful comparisons between param...
As someone who's watched a few people drop out of medical school after a year (talk about an expensive trial run!), I second this wholeheartedly.
Yeah, but how much of that is the lack of EMT experience, and how much is just the fact that they're 19 or 20 and lack all types of life experience? :) I'd bet that someone who did the exact same thing at 30 would be better off than the teenager w...
This is a cyclic discussion. Some states, and some schools, may require it, just because they do. It is ONE way to meet the need for developing patient contact experience.
I see only one reason for an individual to consider investing time in work...
I am at the tail end of the Paramedic program and find my experiences as a career and volly EMT to be invaluable. You can definitely tell the students in my class who are 19 or 20 and just got their EMT cert as part of the Paramedic program in the...
Here's the thing. This question keeps coming up time and again. BLS experience, anyway you slice it, really means zilch in becoming a paramedic. Didactically, its half of cardiology, and not much more... that figure may be off but I think its abou...
I don't think they're moot at all, depending on what lesson you want to take from the comparison. The fact that those professions do provide enough supervised experience during school (or, in the case of medical school, residency) to take someone ...
I have now had the opportunity to work with several zero to Medic providers over the past 10 years and I will say this. It basically (no pun intended) depends on the person. I have had a few who were very good and I've had a few who understood the...
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Hi everyone, I have been working a Fly Car now for 2 years. I also like the concept. In fact, the hospital that I am working in (Bangkok, Thailand) is the only hospital base ambulance that operate this type of vehicle with multi-tasks.
If you work in a "fly car" or "first responder" this is the place for you. Say hello, get to know each other, share experiences good or bad. A good place to vent or just learn what we all do in our regions.
Very interestingly, how do you apply them (ice packs) on the patient ?
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