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Wow a while has passed since I last wrote in this, 7 months to be honest. I am at work on my last block of shifts *2 night shifts after today* and then I am finished with EMD. I am going back to School and hands on RN again. whilst the experience has been an interesting one, its one that ahs had many ups and downs over the last few months. I am stoked and happy I achieved my IAEMD certification and now am aware of so many things in regards to wondering why the hell we were sent out to something it wasn't.
EMS staff, please please please please PLEASE don't knock EMD staff until you have had to have that call from a useless informant or someone who is screaming in a language you don't understand and are understaffed. We can only do so much, we try honestly we try but it's hard. We can only do so much in this room and we are in this room most of the time, we can't get out and hop in the vehicle for a drive, we are at our desks most of the shift.
I realised I missed hands on health care, and I need to be doing something that I am meant to be doing, so I have a new job back in Coronary Care in a New hospital and working up towards the rest of my masters.
Hopefully means more time to be on here with my EMS family and stay involved in pre hospital care again.
Scotty
EMS staff, please please please please PLEASE don't knock EMD staff until you have had to have that call from a useless informant or someone who is screaming in a language you don't understand and are understaffed. We can only do so much, we try honestly we try but it's hard. We can only do so much in this room and we are in this room most of the time, we can't get out and hop in the vehicle for a drive, we are at our desks most of the shift.
I realised I missed hands on health care, and I need to be doing something that I am meant to be doing, so I have a new job back in Coronary Care in a New hospital and working up towards the rest of my masters.
Hopefully means more time to be on here with my EMS family and stay involved in pre hospital care again.
Scotty
i finally hung up on them and told them to get the rig and medics there yesterday.. i was soo very upset with that dispatcher..but i needed to call them back when the rig was lost we lived way back of the main roads they go lost while my grandmas life hung in the wind.
after the call was done and we stayed at the hosp because my grandma died on the way to the hosp. i called the dispatch center back and explained myself and most importantly i apologized to them for losing my temper and explained what had happened..they were cool they knew who i was from being on the radio to them as ems capt for yrs..they were more understanding then i think i deserved but non-the-less understanding. emds have been there for me and my family so many times as the years tick by..not only for me as an officer on the radio but on the rig giving us as much as they can get from us non understanding people calling them. i can only imagine what you go through from regular ole joe calling if i gave them that much of a hard time and i know what they need to give the ambulances an update!
we definitely dont say thanks enough so let this be my thanks to you for all that you have to put up with when that phone rings and us the ever impatient ambulance signing on and wanting that update now!! thanks and good luck in your new job
2wheelie