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Video must be blocked (I am at my job), that was why my question. I will have to try at home tonite.

Welcome to the City, Andrew. Lots to learn here.

Hi Emily, Welcome to the City. Lots to see and learn, stick around!!

Hi PattonEMT, What are you referring to?

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!

I definitely like #2 and #5 on your lessons learned list!! Hope you still have plenty of other great memories from the "vacation"

Make the damn thing sound more threatening, I just don't know how. Maybe the sound of a locomotive about to climb up someone's rear end would do it. People have just gotten so used to sound of a siren, that they just tune it out, especially in metro areas. We generally alternate the sounds as we are getting close to an intersection or traffic (depending on the call).

Welcome to the City!!!!

Mike, Welcome to the City, I would love to know the name of this great city of yours. Otherwise I will assume you are talking about New York

Thumbs are good!! Welcome.

Yup!! The ALS2900 bag is an inflatable ambulance in disquise (sp). Don't let the low price fool you..

Hi Jordan, Welcome to the boards. Keep your mind open and expect to learn a lot. EMT= A whole new world and it will become what you make it. Take some notes, study and most of all practice, practice, practice. EMT is a hands on experience! Questions, feel free to ask here. List the "city" as one of your favorites in your browser. There is a lot to learn here. BTW, what part of the world are you from?

Annakrat, First of all welcome to these boards, you could not have come to a better source of discussions and insight from the many posters here. To be honest with you, I don't know how to answer your question, but I am sure you will get a response soon from some of the really great folks here. Why do you have to be an american citizen to become an EMT-B, or did I misunderstand something there?

What do you mean your current level has been frozen? Will you get a chance tu train into the new protocols?

Welcome to the boards, Brandi. BTW, What part of the country do you hail from?

I think this needs to be made on poster form and hung on a few walls.. A majority of them are too true. I have used the one "Your most common assessment question is "what changed tonight to make it an emergency after 6 (hours, days, weeks, months, years)?"... quite a few times.

I am glad I am an EMT, this way I don't get stuck doing all the clean up work like a paramedic. I was totally being sarcastic, basing my comment on the career overview article. No it couldn't have been wriiten by a second grader, they have too much intelligence compared to the writer in that article. I also sent a comment to the email address as listed above "Sirs, I read the horrific career overview regarding the duties of paramedics as compared to EMTs. The writer apparently did not do their homework regarding the duties of each of these positions. The paramedic is not the clean up person for EMTs. The paramedic requires a much higher level of knowledge and duties than that of the EMT. As an EMT, I work with many paramedics who can make doctors look bad. Please either rewrite or retract the article and print something that looks like some research went into it."

Sorry, Unless the officer is medically trained, he/she shouldn't be doing any more than ABCs (or however they are changing the initials now). Use of a NPA or decompression needle in the wrong hands brings harm to the pt and opens up a can of lawsuit. I can't imagine that someone came up with this idea for a kit.

I hope I will be one of the new friends, welcome back.

Does'nt mean she can't be bold and cop a squat!!!!!

For starters, may I suggest practicing with others until you have it down pat to where it is second nature to you?

Andrew Welcome to the boards, lotsa great stuff here, just stay tuned and jump in.

Sound like a lot of heresay gone wild and too bizarre to be true.. I could be wrong though.

Welcome to the boards Mike!!

There is a whole lot more at stake if this person is allowed to continue in training. Besides putting you at risk, because you know of of this person's condition, other students, patients (in the future) will also be at risk. If there is injury or further damage to a patient, it will come back to you. We do live in a lawsuit happy society. As others have posted, this person really needs to step back and get themselves together first. I don't think you are overstepping your bounds as an instructor as far as bringing it up to higher authority in the school and hopefully they will act on it. You are looking out for this person, (and the school), maybe by some chance they will take the proactive step in the right direction. Sometimes not an easy call.. Just an opinion, hope all goes well