mrsbull

I COMPLETELY agree on a mass firing of these "employees" fakers. I actually just go a call about 2 hrs ago from the state about my EMT cert. I am DEFINITELY doing this the legal way. I would NEVER falsify a document let alone a document like that. I don't care if they have been "doing their job" since 1979 under false pretenses they need to be fired loose ALL retirement,benefits and etc. HOWEVER I know in Colorado and NREMT you can check the status of a persons certs. It is SIMPLE!! http://www.nremt.org/ type in persons name and state. For example Nichole Bull (me) Colorado I am NREMT certified. This makes me think now that NREMT for EMS and PD and Fire should all be required to be put on a database and be able to prove their knowledge. Such as NREMT. I think it should be required because of ppl like this. Fire em all and give me one of their damn jobs!! This is from the NREMT website when I looked up myself The following EMS personnel matched the search information that you provided. The search results represent a list of names of individuals who possess national registration at the First Responder, EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, and/or Paramedic level. These results do not necessarily represent the current city/state where the individual lives or works. You should verify the search results and the current certification status of the individual in question with the appropriate state EMS licensing/certification agency. IE CHECK WITH THE STATE TOO!! To contact a specific state EMS licensing/certification agency, click here. Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 Name Residence Bull, Nichole M. Colorado Spring, CO Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 This irritates and scares me to no end. I sure hope that employers are doing a more thorough check on prospective employees now. How many other states have non educated EMS,PD, FD and etc...

I missed when and where!! I sooo want to go. I may be close nuff to attend. Where is it? I suppose I should have read the whole post. Dammit I sooo would have recorded that and put it up here for ya. I think Wendy and I could have had fun with that... (insert me moping around now here)

I like it. I thing it was pretty well done. I would like to hear more stuff from him. Plus he is not bad on the eyes either. That helps

Are they Hiring?? I need a damn job... With the utmost urgency!

As far as CSFD I have noticed for the most part that they are nice helpful and some even decent looking However some are not helpful and etc. It is like that everywhere I am sure. It is HARD as hell here getting onto CSFD here. They rarely hire someone who has no fire exp. I have no fire exp. As far as Pueblo I have not heard nor do I know any ems providers in that area. Plus I don't speak Spanish either. To be honest you kinda need to have some knowledge if not speak fluent Spanish in pueblo. However I never thought to even check about checking out the agencies in Pueblo. I may check them out down there. I do not know if AMR is down there however they seem to be EVERYWHERE!! I have seen lately some new trucks lately in town (either that or AMR changed their look).

I find that Example ironic. I was helping my EX husband who was in the army with some online courses. Transition from E-5 to E6 (you army vets know the classes I am talking about). I can not remember the name. It was something about how much dynamite would it take to blow up a tree that had a circumference of 22 inches. I was scared to death to google things like that. Then he got this cheat sheet with the answers on it and did the crap his damn self.

Shoot you would freeze today. It is COLD low 40s here. DD went outside to play and her hands turned numb poor thing. Did I mention that they turned off the heat in the apt complex and now we only have ac? So no heat in my place right now. I think I am going turn the oven on for heat now.. If I liked texas I would be there. I would like to be in Florida tho at the beach in Miami...

Thanks for the responses. I am hoping that because I have already sent my prints in and not my pprwk yet that it will not take that long. I shall see. From what I have seen here in the springs is yes that AMR runs it here. I did my clinicals with them a while back when I did not pass the exam something like 5 yrs ago. The FDs here in town are all paid and I think 2 volly/pd stations up north in black forest area. As well as out west in the wp area. The cost of living is OK here. Not too bad but finding a place (I am currently looking for a new place to live) is hell. Craigslist is not helping any. I have looked at ED jobs however they are taken pretty fast here. The only 2 hospitals that are even looking is memorial and penrose. Heck those are the only 2 here. Spenac: I love it here. In the area I live paramedics are only working at AMR or in the ED or work for the FD. The paramedics here at amr are making 37-48k per yr BUT that is in denver. This was posted today. http://www.amr.net/Careers/Search-Jobs.aspx. That is IF you are interested in working with them. As far as I know amr is running colorado mostly.

I have been back home here in Colorado (Springs specifically) for about a year. I have sent my fingerprints into the FBI/CBI a few weeks ago. Today I will be sending in my pprwk to the state. I have a few questions and have seen more and more Colorado ppl on here lately so I am hoping someone will be able to help me in the right direction. #1 If you transferred TO colo from another state how long did it take to get your info back from state? #2 What are some decent companies to work for here? (I am willing to go as far north as Denver, south Pueblo, East Falcon, West Woodland park. #3 What is the standard pay out here? Thanks for any and all info you are able to provide. From what I am seeing there are no jobs out here. Hopefully someone will have some more insight than I do.

First "Duh" moment something asked,said done etc. Or your first "Pucker" incident?? Just thought it might be a fun thread. Mine was actually when I was in school. I was doing my clinicals it was near the end. Actually 5 mins to leave and an MI comes in. I asked if I could stay and observe. When the pt was given his meds and returned to stable condition. I "interviewed him" Sample and all that. Doc walks in and said to the pt that he was going to the cath lab. I thought that would be cool to see. So I asked if I could observe. Mind you I had been "working" 12 hours but not much sleep before cause I was excited. I was told yes IF the pt was ok with it. I asked, he was. So we went to the lab. Where I was told to gown up and put a vest on. There was a spare vest I was told to put on (It was a cardiologists vest) for the radiation. The tech in the Cath lab said to me if I have any questions to feel free to ask. I tell him ok. There was a student who walked in about 5 mins after I put the Docs vest on. The radiology student thought I was an MD. Said Hi Dr so and so. I had just asked what tools were used for what. The tech was nice until he started getting "obvious" on me. ie those are gloves, that is an ultrasound machine that is a syringe. He had started ticking me off I told him well "I have those figured out it isn't Brain Surgery After all" Boy did I get a look from the Cardiologist!!! Let's hear them!!

Too funny. Thanks for sharing.

I know what he looks like. Not as scary as you would think.

Oh wow how this topic has given me cramps and bouts of irritability only my midol can handle, The nature of this discussion is one that can fly away or mabe with my new ultra absorbant tampons I just got I will wear a white outfit and go play tennis. I will let you know how long that works out.

WOO HOO what flavor is that?? White I hope!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope it is a Great one!!!

Lakeland!! What do you need to see. Dont blink or you will miss it!!! J/K If I was still there I would show ya..I lived in Clermont and Leesburg for a while.

Wow that is something that had go to be hard to deal with. I get tired of my daughter whining,telling me she dosent want to go to bed, do her homework but I would NEVER hurt her. She is the one who keeps me laughing and keeps me going when I feel I cant anymore not the other way around. Makes me want to go hug my kiddo.. Oh alright Dust I suppose if you need to change the title then go ahead! Personally I think bothering someone and letting it get to you are 2 different things. Absolutely things bother me I don't think "I" would be OK mentally if they didn't. But do I let it get to me to where I can't do my job? No. If it did then hell yea I would find a different job where I did not "see" it. I understand where you are coming from but to be completely void of ANY emotion is something that personally I am not capable of. As a mother I suppose. Even if I had no kids I would still be bothered. Like I said if it gets to you and you can not differentiate your feelings or emotions and separate that from your job specially if you take it "home with you" then find another profession perhaps in social work. But it does not mean it is not out there.

Annie I completely agree in Documentation!! It is the thing that will help the most. Not your "Personal Recollection" Even if/when that particular call stays in your head forever. How have these cases affected you personally?

I agree maintaining professionalism is key. When I was doing my ED rotation during school a few years ago. I went to help a nurse triage 4 kids ages 3 or 4 - about 13. They were all drunk. No one knew where mom was and the kids looked like they belonged in the movie "Annie". The younger ones were found wondering the streets at 1 am. I think the oldest girl about 12 was sleeping with moms BF at the time. I was able to do my job with the children. The ED was busy that night so I was the one who sat with the kids while PD was there questioning them. I think eventually they found mom. However I will NEVER forget that. I did my job. Sometimes tho the legal system is not very good about holding ppl accountable. I just hope the ppl in the penal system read up on abusers and are "waiting" on them. Sometimes I am glad we do not know the "outcome" but it would be nice to know the kids are ok. The ones who survive anyways.

This thread will be one that I am sure many will not post on, however it is a topic that as EMS we see. Hopefully not often but it is out there. Being a mother I have found this site a bit hard to deal with. This topic is about Child Abuse. I have recently found this website that tells stories (with articles to back them up) of the horrors children go thru. My question is If you have had to deal with care for one (or more) of these types of things. How did you do it? Hopefully you were able to do your job and the child is well off. However I can understand it being hard to complete a task when emotions run so highly. This is the website. http://badbreeders.net/ There are some children who did not make it. Some who lived in Squalor, some who were so abused they will not ever have a normal life. What is your thoughts on this?? How do you cope? Here is just one article that is inside this website. THIS WAS POSTED ON APRIL 4th. ABUSE DEATH IN NEWTON KANSAS: Here is the article http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/31/1249145/mother-of-newton-toddler-who-died.html?storylink=fbuser Mother of Newton toddler who died is charged: 20-year-old Katheryn Nycole Dale and her 26-year-old penis, Chad Carr, have been arrested in Newton, KS for the abuse death of her son, 19-month-old Vincent Hill. Among them were “terrible cuts” on the inside of the boy’s mouth, fingernails that had been ripped out, a leg that was twisted in an unnatural position, a fractured collar bone, and an eye swollen shut, Yoder said. Evidence shows that the injuries “didn’t just start recently,” he said. To make matters worse the egg donor and the penis had only been together for 4 months. How does one go into this form of abuse in a span of four months. Or were they both child abusers before that? Thanks to Cara for the tip.

I am on his FB. I know how to post it if I have permission!!

LMAO a rash on the bridge of her nose. Apparently it was not a short term "allergy". Ok blonde moment does she mean her upper lip (from canula)?? No pun intended. (although it would have opened a few doors) ok it likely just did...

I did not clarify "sorry I thought I had". I put a reaction (sensitivity/adverse) to the drug instead of an allergy. Personally when I refer to an "allergy" I think shut down time anaphalaxis a TRUE med emergency. Not a ohh I am sensitive to something. I hear a lot of pts when doing my SAMPLE in my A part, what is the reaction that xyz does to you. If you say itching well that sounds (to me) like a sensitivity. My DD is allergic to Rocephin. It is not pretty. Now if a pt says I am allergic to penacillin and your reaction is you stop breathing then OK fair nuff that will HAVE to be relayed to the intake facility. Does anyone put a sensitivity to a drug on a pcr or only TRUE allergies??

I was searching some drugs reactions and OD type things. I found this website that seems to be quite informative http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/drug-guides/index.htm I got the histamine part. Thanks!! This is good to know since I have seen histamine effects of morphine. Not horrible but itching and mild hives. A dose of say benadryl is appropriate for this type of reaction, I would say. What I am reading is an allergic reaction to Morphine is more likely than an allergic reaction to Fentanyl. Am I under the correct assumption?

I was just reading up on the Fentanyl/Morphine post. Without bringing it back to light. I have a few questions. I am an NREMT-B so please bear with me. I know fentanyl is a quicker acting pn med. Morphine is a longer acting drug. What other than what I have just stated above is different about them? Why would you give someone one or the other?? What would your Criteria be? ie b/p, resp rate, MOI/NOI Is it a personal choice or is it a Med Dir thing? Also what is the difference between the 2 mentioned above and Demerol? I ask because these are the most commonly talked about narcs available to EMS personnel? This is not related to any study I am doing just personal knowledge. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I hope I have asked these questions in a manner that is easy to understand. It is late here and I am getting sleepy.