As an EMS instructor, one the challenges I face each semester is the girth of job opportunities for my students and helping them match their ambitions and goals with the

As an EMS instructor, one the challenges I face each semester is the girth of job opportunities for my students and helping them match their ambitions and goals with the
What happens when your little boy chokes on a piece of chicken and the back blows and abdominal thrusts just aren’t working? Other than continuing to pounding on their chest
As long as I have taught EMT classes I have tried my best to instill in students the absolute importance of being highly proficient, to the point of expert level,
In a very demanding job like nursing, nurse tech, etc. it is rather easy to focus a little too much on your own issues instead of the little ways you
What’s your opinion on this? Weirdos are part of the job: Someone selling you your own supplies, running around naked with a tin foil hat, or stroking your cheek lovingly
See that guy grabbing the gurney? That’s me…. Well, no, not really, but that’s how I feel sometimes! An EMT is often confronted with the false reality that the job
Often times during my interactions with current and former students the inevitable phrase comes up while we are discussing protocols, interventions and the job itself. I’ll have an EMT say
An alert patient comes into the ER with a deep laceration to the forehead. Seems like a simple enough job. Clean it, IV, maybe inject some local epinephrine, staple the
As many of you know out there in the world of EMT instruction, sometimes we think we got ‘through’ to the students and sometimes we get one of those classes
1. I knew everything I needed to know about being a Paramedic in class. Some people call it Paragod Syndrome, and yes folks, I unfortunately had this problem too. I