NoOnesAngel

We have so paramedic in this area who is legally blind and he works regular shifts and is also an emt/paramedic instructor, he has to put his face reeeaaaallll close to get a iv and most of the time it's pretty messy and I've cleaned up after him once or twice...everyone is game do long as they can pass the NREMT ...that being said I really think everyone should start at the bottom and work their way up. Either way good luck! There is a few errors in that post...swype ruins everything..lol

Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting - Elton John 8)

Isn't Medicare considering using a grading scale on how hospitals and EMS get paid? They request patients grade their care...and in turn base how much you get paid on what kind of grade you receive? * That could be a complete fabrication but I do believe I recall that being tossed around the station and the hospital a month or two ago...

Alright...lol...I love when this little email pops up in my inbox...and it states that there are more responses to this post... I question myself on the brilliance of starting this entire thread...i got a lot more than what I bargained for...every where from the idea of my holding a EMT cert scares some (To which I don't care my pts think i'm excellent and as long as I have them fooled... :twisted: lol...that is all that matters) ...to you need to get away from that company...to you need to go on to Paramedic asap... K...the post was basically to see if my call was poor judgement...I still think I was in the right...and I've fought it out with the medic that owns the place... In fact I had multiple patients for another KY MVA who wanted to go to West Virginia...at which point I refused to haul them there...it really doesn't matter to me where they go...the hospitals are 3 minutes from the 4 lane that runs between them...both are at the same level *Band aid stations* ...but regardless unless the KY ER isn't accepting pts...all the MVA pts will go there... As for the call that started it all...the trooper...went to his post got his paperwork and went into WVa and gave the citations to the driver... *amazed* It all works out in the end... Y'all have a good one lol

First...My partner and she has been my partner on the truck for over a year and a half...has never had her medic..in fact she just recently got her cert as a FR . *GASP* -Evil CPR drivers - So...no medic was being lazy. As far as the protocols I listed...they were just examples...

okay...and here we go again I'm going to look the ignorant little EMT yet again...trust me I'm use to it at this point...but i'll continue on...I know this isn't going to be pretty... MedicTroll you say it scares you that I hold an EMT card...our state has protocols...I work in KY so if you please you can look them up call KBEMS whatever you wish...I also work in WVA they have protocols...my service has duel CONs...and therefore I've never had a problem before transporting pts over the stateline... Now as far as protocols go and so forth...in EMT class I was taught how to transport all sorts of things...how to do all kinds of things...in our state guidelines...I too am allowed to do these things...but when it comes to the verbal instructions given to me and my fellow employees I AM NOT ALLOWED to do these things...and this all gets very confusing and frustrating...I am not to give epi...i'm not transport a pt with an iv none whatsoever ....i'm not to admin albuterol...even though it's clearly stated in WVA protocols that med comm is to be called and it's to be administered....but the service constantly asks us to butt heads with what is clearly written out by the states...so we are in a constant state of do i or do i not and more often then not we do what we aren't suppose to because of whatever reason the service has...and we get exactly what I got...a very public very loud verbal reprimand...I've been doing this for two years....I'm about to be fired for butting heads and if i don't get fired i'm quitting...and I'm hoping it will be different at another service.