Gypsy

What part of Ft. Lauderdale? My husband and I used to live down there in the Hollywood area. It is nice. Though I'll warn you Spanish is very much needed.

If you want send me a PM. I know moving to a new area can be scary. Went through that when we moved to Tampa.

Very cool link.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis Thank you wiki!

Here's the link to the page if anyone wants to read it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_in...with_anhidrosis

Don't forget to call your mother's today! In other words don't be like how I normally am: forget and call the next day. hehe. I love yahoo for the little graphics each holiday.

I know some of them were really good! I'm so proud of my kids!

Congratulations hun! Can't wait to tell my kids.

Questions were sent out today! Yes I know there's more questions than pictures. Some kids left early today and didin't get to make a picture to send to you guys. I will be gone from Monday to next Friday on vacation. We have a penpal/guild mate coming from London and we're showing her around Florida. Hopefully Miss Rita or Miss Diana will take over for me for those days I'm gone. I will also be reading the emails just for fun to see how you guys answer.

That would be awsome but would have no way to really do it. I really think there should be more for the younger kids. I mean white coat fear is a known thing and stuff like this really helps. I recently at a child in the hospital and when I went to visit him the nurses all asked me what I teach my kids because they were so shocked that he wasn't scared. In fact he was telling the doctors what they were doing and explaining it to them! ( Yes I gave myself a pat on the back for that one.)

It would really be great if there was some sort of liason for EMS to kids. ( Come on if the police can have the DARE programs and such why don't we?) I have a totally seperate kit that is only for me to bring into my class for my kids. This kit has the basics: BP cuff, stethescope, 1 or 2 4x4 gause pads, some tape, gloves, and a pen light. I let my kids "play" with direct supervision with all of these things. Heck they all know the basics of how to take vitals at this point. hehe They don't get them right but that isn't the point. To me the point is that they aren't afraid of the tools. It's funny listening to them. One day the kids were playing and the "emt" was doing a SAMPLE on his friend. I had a hard time not laughing.

I'm so proud of my kids.

Now to get back on topic to this project: The kids will be making letters today for their first questions. Some of them are REALLY good. So please remember these are 4 and 5 year olds so you need to keep the answers basic and clean. Some of them are just cute. Would you guys like me to send them to all of you or would you rather have them be more personal?

If I have you as a penpal please check your email! The first batch of children's greetings were sent out today at 1:30. The other class will be following shortly! The subject is hello from Mrs Beth's class.

"Perlude 12/21" by AFV and "Airship Pirates" by Abney Park.

Ya we went back and forth for maybe 2 minutes then I remembered, "oh ya you know this guy is nuts. That's why you go home and read and home school yourself." I just wanted to see if I was in the wrong and he really was right.

THat is part of the "joy" of workig with kids. Pain becomes very generalized. They don't issolate it like we do. If their throat hurts they say the whole body but worse there. Actually alot of kids will say they neck hurts but point to their throat. Just to make it harder. lol

I wasn't sure where to ask this but here looked good.

Back in school my lecture instructor and I had a debate. He was saying if you have a child with a low grade fever, over all disconfort, and a sore throat to think it's spinal meningitis. I disagreed and said strep throat. Keep in mind I work in early childcare and have been in that field for close to 5 years now. I don't even want to begin to think of how many kids I"ve seen with strep that show those signs/symptoms.

If you were presented with a child such as that which would you think?

May I have an acucheck done please?

You said there is wheezing. Is it audible or did we listen to breath sounds already with a stethesope?

Congradulations hun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can only get audio... Is there a video that should go with it?

I can't beat level 10 to save my life!

One I thought of off the top of my head: How to care for a patient with a history of spina bifida cystica (myelomeningocele). A note about this type- the patient can not be laid on their back in most cases because it will cause a seizure.

Just donated to St. Judes yesterday during a trike-a-thon.

I'm not getting alot of replies on the email account and I found out last night I had an address wrong. So just real quick either on here or to my email. Is everyone getting the emails being sent from gypsyems@ymail? The start date is coming up 2 weeks from today. So if there is a problem I would like to know now.

During one of my rides we had to go back to the hospital for a backboard. We had used our "replacement" suddenly at the doors of the ER and then forgot to get a new one again. We hadn't gone far luckily before we realized. Maybe to the end of the driveway. So I just jumped out and got one.

Im a firefighter/paramedic in Jacksonville, I can send you pictures of the trucks and us working to show the kids, and write a letter to go with it, let me know, my email is my name here with @aol.com behind it.

Awsome! If I recall you're the first person from Florida too which is good. Thank you so much. I'll send you an email from the project adress as soon as I can.

Any good EMT school will have already advised the facility of clinical expectations of the students. This should not include "making beds" or anything similar. Clinical time is sparse enough in EMT school without making it less productive by being used as a skivvy for lazy arse CNAs.

I agree with tskstorm - take plenty of vitals, lung sounds etc.

I just know the hospitals I went to when we had patients we got to work with them but we were slow alot. So I did what I could to make myself useful.

Hopefully you'll see more than I did when I did my clinicals but one thing I can pass along is don't be scared of asking, "How can I be helpful?" Don't be shocked if they have you making a bed or something but they will remember the person looking for something to do over the one standing in a corner doing nothing.

lol. Ok that's cute admin. I swear I wont take your rabbit.