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  1. Thanks for the quick reply. I does help.

    It also confirms my suspicions that "competency based" is going to vary from state to state and from program to program. As antiquated as the old "standard" was, it did set the bar for the lowest denominator. Now the bar is set at the next staff meeting and budget review.

    Has anyone out there required a "Community Service" rotation? Have the student do 4 hours at a local soup kitchen and report on it?

  2. Hi there,

    I am in an instructor work-group to find out what other EMS instructors are requiring for clinical rotations at the Advanced EMT level. I would also be interested in any type of documentation that you have on this subject.

    I have Googled the subject with limited results.

    You help is greatly appreciated.

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  3. The National Registry requires that you complete a state approved EMT course. With the course you chose you had to pass the final exam to complete the course. Since that was not achieved, you don't meet the requirements to test regardless of how many hours you spent.

    The school most likely has these tests as checks and balances to gauge to see if you have the minimal knowledge to successfully pass the NREMT. It would have been a dis-service to you if they passed you and allowed the NREMT to catch that you do not have the knowledge necessary to be an EMT.

    If all of the students did not pass the final, then you may have a case with the school or perhaps even the state that approved the course, but I have a feeling that only a few did not pass.

    Please remember that the course was not an "art appreciation course", but a course that will allow you to go out and significantly impact the lives of people. Although I have empathy for you and your struggles, I applaud the school for holding a standard and putting the public trust above all else.

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  4. I would do nothing to the person with the cell phone. They are protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. If they are preventing me from doing my job, law enforcement should correct that. As far as the naked patient, cover her up. It is one of the first treatments for shock or the prevention of such.

    The officer most likely did not do anything because he understands the Constitution.

  5. Another thing to desensitize the public to warning lights. Up in our area, everyone from the Cable Provider, to the landscaper has amber front facing lights and rear amber and red strobes / leds. Many have front white strobes in their directionals or headlights and drive around with them on.

    The local tow trucks have more lights on them than the ambulances do. Cops don't care unless you have a blue light showing, even if it from your blue-tooth phone on your dash.

  6. If they want to volunteer, than do it from the station, not 10 - 20 miles away as you state.

    Volunteers are difficult as it is to get and keep. Now you want them to sit at the station for the 2-3 calls a week some areas get? How do you propose that we convince them to do such? If if they don't, or can't, then what is the solution? It is easy to say if the want to do it, than XYZ, but show me the plan on how to get that program to work.

  7. Some parts of the U.S. still works under a volunteer system. Sometimes those volunteers are 10-20 miles away depending on the size of the catchment area. Lack of call volume, and tax support, in these areas necessitates volunteer responses. This is not to invoke a discussion about volunteers, but volunteers are a vital part of EMS today, and lights on their cars are part of their tools of the trade. Until the pendulum swings to paid services nationwide, we should support our peers and their different issues. To not understand that side of our profession, and why they are there today, is to not totally understand our profession. My understanding of the original poster was that he wanted help in choosing lights for his vehicle that would allow him to do his job safely. It is unfortunate that he was looked down upon and thought less of because of it.

    Just another quick note... if a volunteer spends a few hundred dollars on equipment to keep his EMS unit going, it is probably a lot less, by thousands, than what his taxes would be raised per year if they did not have him and had to put a full time unit up. Not a bad investment.

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