courageheartx

I know in Winnepeg you need to go through the winnipeg fire/paramedic school which is listed on the CMA website. A good majority of the schools in the peg send their students send their students to the U.S for practicums. None the less,its a very americanized city.

Here's the link.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service

As for individuals in Canada,I don't know how the compentencies come together,but you can always contact their health region

Manitoba Health

Vancouver does not have TEMS.

The information you have posted is incorrect.

Alberta?Claiming they have no resources or money for ALS in rural areas? Where is this?Curious

Paul,

Hope you have the best poker,beer and tits nights ever tonight!!

and remember, GO FLAMES GO!

lol

Firedoc, you and Mr. Anderson have totally missed the point of this discussion. This isn't a matter of a crew whining about having to take a run they don't want to make. This is a broader operational discussion of system-wide significance. Just because you don't have the motivation or education necessary to supervise or manage a system does not prohibit the rest of us from discussing the broader issues in EMS, such as resource management. Sit back with your head in the sand of blissful ignorance if you like, but the intellectuals here will continue to talk EMS as a whole and our future, and not just the last cool run we made.

Reading comprehension goes a long way here, folks. Brent didn't ask if those people needed an ambulance. He asked if they really needed EMS. I know this may come as a shock to all you transfer monkeys out there, but you are not EMS. I don't care what EMT stands for, how shiny your badge is, or how red the lights on your ambulance are, you are not EMS. You are there to transport people who require assistance or a supine ride, but not EMS.

The question is, should EMS systems also be running non-emergency, invalid transports that do not require medical attention? Should they be separate industries? Should states even be requiring that such transfer ambulances be staffed with EMS certified personnel and equipment? Shouldn't customers have a choice? If I have absolutely no acute medical condition that requires any medical attention or assessment, but just need somebody to carry my decrepit old arse home, shouldn't I have a whole yellow pages full of options, instead of just the couple of "ambulance" companies approved of by the local FD, or worse yet, the "Public Utility Model" EMS system that runs my area with an exclusive hold on the transfer business, and charges three times as much as Joe's Transfer Service would charge me?

Pull you heads out and look past your little ambulance and look at the big picture here. This is a question that may very well determine the future of EMS in this country. Will EMS continue to identify itself with non-medical transfer services just for a few extra Medicare bucks, resulting in us forever being called horizontal taxi services? Or should we maybe decide to take our name literally and declare that EMS is exactly what it says: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE? Words mean something. To be strutting around with our patches under everybody's nose and declaring ourselves to be an essential, lifesaving emergency service, yet spending more than half of our time doing nothing more than giving people non-emergency, non-medical transportation is living a lie. It's time to get serious about our primary purpose and specialise in what we claim to do best.

No, Mr. Anderson, you are wrong. This isn't about "helping people." That's the biggest lie in EMS. There are a million ways to help people in this world that we have to choose from. Unfortunately, most of them don't involve badges and sirens. If our field didn't involve badges and sirens, three quarters of the current EMTs would quit tomorrow. Do you think they would go searching for some new way to "help people?" Hell no. They'd take the first union job they could find that didn't require a lot of book learnin’. They darn sure wouldn't go to work running a transfer car for a career, with no hope of ever driving with lights and siren or calling themselves "public safety." I guess that doesn't "help people" enough. The other twenty-five percent that would stay here are those who are here because emergency medicine is just the coolest, most interesting and intellectually satisfying thing we can imagine to apply our talents to. Those are the people that ought to comprise one hundred percent of the EMS ranks in order to call ourselves a true profession.

EMS runs non-emergency, non-medical transports for the exact same reason that they hire EMTs. Money. No other reason. And the retarded laws that regulate non-emergency ambulances currently allow us a bit of a monopoly. It doesn't have to stay that way. It shouldn't stay that way. It isn't that way in Canada or Mexico, and their people seem to get to the nursing home just fine. If we continue to do things the way we've always done them, we will continue to get the results we have always gotten. That means we will forever remain nothing more than "ambulance drivers," with all the [lack of] respect that comes with that. Good luck making a profession out of that.

I'm partial to this statement.....

Here for interfacility transports within the hospitals,you need to hold a Primary Care Paramedic Cert from an accredited school or hold an Advanced Care Paramedic cert from an accredited school..... other than that....you need a class 4 license,immunizations,NAPD,BTLS,registration with the College Of Paramedics.

I would think that the vests themselves protect your internal organs to a certain degree after a collision. Possibly glass or metal penetrating some of the vital organs in your chest cavity. Vests dont necessarily stop a blunt trauma from happening,but it will stop things I mentioned above. Don't participate in activites that would allow for this to happen. Or get a vest and run into a crowd with gunfire. The whole purpose of the vest and PPE is prevention. Yes?No? :wink:

With the increase in violence and corruption within big cities and even in small towns I think it is a good decision to start providing Paramedics or any EMS providers with a ballistics vest. At $1000 for a kevlar vest,these vests are not cheap. Who do you think should pay? Tax payers?Should EMS agencies take up donations and fundraisers for providing our frontline professionals with the proper PPE they need?Possibly. I think either way you look at it, this should be an essential part of "kit" for the job and it should NOT be the obligation of the provider to provider him or herself with these vests. I have added an URL for this article I have found on JEMS. Take a look. What do you think? This has been a question in many EMS agencies.

JEMS articles

Are pre-hospital courses and classes considered write off on taxes?What about ACP exams and all costs that go with it? Just curious. Thanks.

Wait,when the hell did this happen?Has it been implented as of now?When?

:roll:

England EMS....I have to research this one.

I hope he also told him to dump his worthless girlfriend immediately afterwards. 8)

co-signed.

and this has nothing to do with my bitterness.

I would do something in regards to immunology. Something like AIDS,sickle cell anemia,leukemia,hemophilia,high cholesterol etc etc.

LOL...

Posted: EMT City Administrator @ Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:29 pm

Please use the report button if you suspect that people are posting nonsense just to get into chat. The 7-8 posts from people thinking that they are being helpful by pointing out that this is happening, is not. Just click the report button and leave the moderating to us.

Thanks

co-signed

HUH? im confused?Register with Calgary EMS? So if I was a pt,and had diabetes,I could register saying I had diabetes and let the medics know before they come! I don't think so. We call these things Medi-alert bracelets. Correct me if im wrong?

chuck norris eats lightning and farts thunder.

enough said.

Second that motion.

I would have to concur now,

do not confuse them.

co-signed & stamped

Starting in the new year it seems all of the exams will be held up in Edmonton,Ab oppose to Red deer,Ab. I know it says it exam location will be TBA,but does anyone have an idea of where exams will be performed?NAIT?I don't think the ACP office is big enough but maybe they've moved. Thanks in advance.

The issue isn't having sexual intercourse. The issue is having unpermitted sexual acts or performing them rather at work. It's ridiculous.

Good job Dave. Have a cold one,you deserve it buddy.

Cops wear jackets. Jackets don't scream EMS professional to me.

Thats because your from the durty souf. aint nothin but heat down there! i think jackets are pretty decent....in the winter you need them. in the summer i think a shirt and vest will do.

ANY and most goverment agencies have surveilance. I think its a good idea to start putting them everywhere not just in visible spots.

LOL@this thread.

I mean come on if mating season was on,wouldn't you hear the calls of the wild by listening? Cameras are an invasion of people's privacy...but at such a place where females and males work,i would think there would be cameras everywhere except the washrooms. no?hmmmm