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Hello to all, I decided to join this forum so I could warn any perspective emt or paramedic students about Florida Medical Training Institute. This school does alot of illegal stuff with student paper work and documentation. They also have high failure percentages on there classes. If you are a current student at one of there campuses or looking to attend there, and want more info about why you shouldnt just let me know.

We do what we do because the job offers different challenges every shift and we're not stuck being a desk jockey. Sometimes we even get to run calls that remind us how much cooler this is than being an acountant. Yeah, every once in awhile we get calls that are disturbing, but try to remember...YOU AREN'T THE ONE WHO PUT THEM IN THAT SITUATION. You got thrown in the middle of things, because something didn't go as planned and you were called for help. I had to work a code on a 75 year old man Halloween morning at the nursing home with no quality of life. He had no family-only a legal/medical representative. Hospice was supposed to come in a few hours to evaluate him and get a DNR. And here we were shoving a tube in his airway, cracking his ribs, and drilling an IO into his leg, knowing he didn't want any of it. When you take this job, you have a legal and ethical duty to all your patients. We have to have standards where everyone is treated the same. You were just doing your job. Take a deep breath. Take a day off. Get some sleep and come back for another fun-filled shift. It's what we do.

I would hope he at least put the patient on a monitor. Considering what happened, he probably didn't bother with a 12-lead tsk tsk Every patient with chest pain should be put on a monitor and have a 12-lead, no matter how old he/she is. Even after that, it needs to be explained that both of those are still not conclusive. The patient needs to be monitored and have blood work done to rule out cardiac events.

hope today finds you better accepting you what you have gone through! time can be a healer because we can see things hopefully for what they really are. i had a very bad call and had been an emt for over 10yrs. thought i knew what needed to be done etc.. my mom calls and says grandma dont look good can you come? over i get there and can hear her breathing as i step into the house and shes in the bedroom. go in and she is in the tri-pod position,grayish blue and can hardly hold herself up..i call 911 and get angry at the dispatcher for all the questions, i felt they were keeping me from taking care of her..i get back to grandma and she is fading quick..o2 on take vitals..she looses conc 2xs before the ambulance gets there..as we are taking her out of the house she codes..my moms best friend...her life...i am praying please no..not this..oh god please no.. but despite everything i did she died...i felt responsible..i let my mom down and could not live with that!!!i was able to move on some but never let go the fact that i let my mom (my best friend) down..how could i have done something like that..what did i do wrong..i finally after years told my mom how i felt and asked her to forgive me..my grandma died of chf there was nothing i could have done short of god giving me a miracle..but it was her time my mom said. nothing you would have done could have changed that outcome in my 23yrs as an emt i have taken care of countless pts and we need to understand we are human and with that comes mistakes! all of us! but learn from them.embrace them and then move on to do your very best vowing to never do that same thing again. that is all we can do. to me the best emts/paramedics are the ones that still feel..if we are going to accept the saves and good care you need to do the same with the bad ones! hang in there and keep on trucking!!!

I obviously sense the sarcasim in your reply. Did you already know about them ?

We do it because it is our job. Very few people could or would do it. There is no shame in counseling sessions when you're at the breaking point. There is no shame in needing the occasional sleeping pill. There is no shame in needing a day off. There is no shame in asking for help. Figure out a fast way to deal with it. The more baggage you carry the heavier you are when you're trying to do your job and the less effective you become. You'll have to put these bad calls and shifts behind you and concentrate on continuing to do the very best job you can do. Good luck, and consider a vacation day or two to sharpen your blades.

I wasnt looking for sympathy you genius. It was a simple warning. If you didnt care so much why waste your precious last brain cells on making a reply. Its funny how the only person from FL that replied knew what I was talking about.

"unlike nursing which is standardised" ----- is that statement a joke. I have worked in both hospital based trauma services and prehospital ems since 1994. A blanket statement suggesting that U.S. or foreign trained nurses can hold a candle to an EMT is moronic. Unlike nurses many EMT basics in the united states are responsible for care of the patient door to door. Oftentimes the EMT basic is the only level that is able to care for even critically injured patients until more highly CERTIFIED professionals arrive. Based on my now 15 years experience with RN's; only about 25% could perform at the EMT level. Only about half of those 25% could perform at or above the skills of a decent EMT-Paramedic. Most nurses in the United States exit with a R.N. license after two(2) years of rudimentary nursing training. Of course most paramedics are trained for the same two(2) years OR more in ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT. As far as other countries laughing at the EMT-B certification, I wouldn't know. I do know that few if any states accept foreign training in EMS. I also KNOW that the national registry does not recognise foreign trained Medics. On this disparity, there should be a national accreditation body. Still, to suggest that a medic in Britain is somehow more experienced or has thousands of more hours of training...well that just sounds like a pretty long stretch...And frankly the facts do not show this to be true. Typical US medics have well over 4000 hours of didactic and clinical training by the end of EMT-B through NR-EMT-P. Of course there is always the exception to the above facts. Besides who wants to go to Israel and get shot at when I can just stay here in lovely downtown detroit.

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