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HAHA - good luck with that. Let us know if you find one.

NJ ALS training: Professional Certification The professional courses are divided into eight semesters (three classroom; five clinical) and awards the student 42 credits and a certificate of completion. Instruction takes place in the classroom, hospital and in the field internship with preceptors on the Mobile Intensive Care Units. Associate's Degree The Health Sciences curriculum is the opportunity to acquire an Associate's Degree by supplementing your professional paramedic education with an additional 26 credits (for a total of 68) of specified general education courses. On average, about 2 years. Students will have about 500 precepting hours prior to testing, on average.

How long ago did you see the Medic unit stationed in a OC firehouse? I've been around for awhile and have never heard of Shore running an ALS program. It might have been medic 5, which operated as a float truck in the summer when it was first created, but I am not sure.

Here is a rundown on the South NJ ALS units: Medic 5 is based in Wildwood (I think, they're in that area), Medic 6 in AC, Medic 7 in Galloway, Medic 8 out of Egg Harbor Twp., Medic 9 covers Cape May, Medic 10 has been moved to the Hammonton area. Medic 1 is the specialty care transport out of AC. Medic 200 is ALS supervisor. The coverage areas are pretty easy to figure out if you know the area. Medic 6 is really never leaves AC, and 7 always ends up driving around the county getting recalled. All the townships listed are paid municipal crews.

FireGuard: - 911 services. The "shore towns" of Ventnor, Margate, Brigantine, and Ocean City are all FD-based departments and getting a spot on them can be tough. Atlantic City is normally hiring, and they are by far the busiest. However, you are so close to the hospital that you are basically a taxi service. The other busier services in the area are Galloway Twp., Hamilton Twp., and Egg Harbor Twp.. I am pretty sure all of those services are hiring at the basic level. All ALS is run by AtlantiCare, which runs the two of the three major hospitals in the area. The MICU's are staffed by two MICP's who respond in a chase vehicle as requested by the call-taker during dispatch or by the EMS crew upon there arrival. There are five MICU's covering Atlantic County and one covering Cape May County, along with a specialty critical care transport truck that doubles as the second in ALS for Atlantic City. The specialty care truck is staffed with a MICP, MICRN, and sometimes a basic as a driver for long transports. AtlantiCare also runs its own EMS transportation units, along with SeniorCare and Mutual Aid Ambulance Services.

Washigton DC recognizes Basics, Intermediates, and Paramedics

Remember guys, laws are normally vague. It is during the promulgation of the law/act by the governing agency where we see the specific information created. All the act is doing is allowing certain things to be created, it is up to the state EMS board to create them.

Asysin: I know exactly what you are talking about. I work for one of the paid squads outside of Atlantic City. I cannot tell you how many times we have to send one of our duty trucks into a volunteer town because they cannot get a crew out for an abdominal or chest pn. call. Yet somehow, when the MVA goes out 5 minutes later, they have a crew. Similarly, because the coverage area of each ALS unit is so large, they normally get recalled before they can get on scene. As a result, a majority of their day is spent just driving around the county. Fortunately, most of the BLS squads (in the bigger townships and cities) are either already paid or are on the way to being paid.

I guess I should clarify: When I say turnout "gear", I mean turnout jacket, helmet, and gloves. Extrication is handled by the fire department, however they are either too dumb or unwilling to get into a car to hold C-Spine, so we normally do it. We are a non-FD based department.

Woah...You don't keep turnout gear in your rigs? How do you protect yourself from broken glass and other hazards while on scene? What do you wear if you are in a vehicle holding C-Spine during an extrication? We keep three sets of turnout gear in each of our ambulances, safety vests too.

Unless you are a paramedic, AtlantiCare is basically only transport. I know they have the 911 contract for a smaller town in South Jersey, but I'd imagine that it takes some seniority to get those shifts.

I live in DC and I agree, the sirens can be annoying. I don't think it is a departmental policy, as much as it is personal preferences; some medics never turn it off, others seldom use it. Unfortunately, I live 2 blocks from a major university hospital, so there is no escaping it.

I treated a lady who tried to kill herself by swallowing all the pills she had in her house. She ended up surviving. A few months later I was called to a MVA in the middle of the night. By the time we got there, the first-in crew had already back boarded the patients and were nice enough to put them into the rigs while I checked the damage on the car. I got into the rig to talk to the patient and the woman staring up at me goes, "Do you remember me?" Of course, I don't. I apologize and ask where she knew me from. It turned out that she was the woman I had treated for the OD a few months back. She goes on to tell me that "She had wanted to kill herself at the time." Apparently, my brain stopped working because my response was "Oh, how'd that work out for you?" :oops:

If you're going to work for Exceptional in AC, get used to being a taxi service. You're so close to the hospital that you barely have time to learn the patients name. If you want a better work experience, go to one of the paid squads right outside of the city.

Sounds like a good idea, just watch out for the anti-trust claims that are sure to come from the townships that feel prices have been driven by the lack of competetive market.

Try to develop your thesis into a statement that you will prove in the body of the paper rather than posing it as a question. Good topic, though.

MONOC has "up and lost AC EMS" for some time now... There was some talk awhile ago about Exceptional losing the AC contract, but nothing really happened with that.

I agree, they are always located on the center console or at the bottom left of the dash. On a related note, as anyone ever pulled up to a call and got out of the rig without putting it in park first? One time, I pulled up to a house and was concentrating so hard on determining the house number that I got out without putting it in park. Luckily, I caught it right away and jumped back in. Can you say disaster? Similarly, our department uses drivecams, and quite a few interesting incidents have been caught on tape, if you will. I watched one the other day that involved a member of my department getting out of the rig, also having forgot to put it in park, and walking about 10 feet in front of the ambulance, which was now rolling towards him. He turned around and noticed it and ran back in to slam on the brakes. No one was hurt, but the look on his face that was captured by the drivecam was priceless.

It's all politics, guys... Think about where the money is coming from. Grandpa having an MI and getting a basic unit does not get anywhere near the media attention as a town being destroyed by a massive hurricane. Politicians want to look good by allocating funds for MCI's and they want to look better for not having ignored the problem when one actually occurs.

Your service does not pay for your malpractice insurance?

You're talking about that bus accident, right?

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The American with Disabilities Act (herein referred to as the ADA), requires that employers make reasonable accommodations for employee's with disabilities. However, the ADA does not go as far as to extend blanket protection to individuals who are not able to perform the job. I think in this case any accommodation that would be made could be deemed as unreasonable. The employer would not be in violation of federal law, and patients would not be endangered by an individual who, unfortunately, has no business performing this job.

Quit.

Here is where you guys are mistaken...Law enforcement or not, no one has the right to put their hands into another person's pockets. If you do, prepare to face the consequences if the person makes a big deal out of it. And, to answer your other question, of the three services I have worked for, all have had something in their SOP's about the scenario.