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  1. Now I understand. When you are on the call that you were called to, you have to follow the EMR protocols. Also I was taught I can open medication bottles for the things you listed, except for the activated charcoal. The only one that can help give charcoal is the EMT. No where in my notes did I learn that I need to call med control for aspirin or a bottle of water. I did put down I need to verify with med control if oral glucose, or any other medications are okay for them to take. If I am not allowed to do it then I must of surprisingly missed the instructor saying so. Good thing I am working around peers with more education than I haha.
  2. I was able to talk to the director of the paramedic program through email. He said the first two years of the bachelors degree is the traditional two year associates paramedic degree. He said after you finish the first two years you take your national registry, and then can start working as a paramedic. After you finish your national registry you continue to talk classes to obtain credits towards your bachelors degree - and this is all health sciences like how the body works and what not. He said you do not need to be an EMT entering into the program, but you get extra credits coming in as one. He did not say anything about age. I am guessing you probably have to be 18 by the time you start getting your field experience. I am going to ask them that. I may do that, so then I would have a bachelors degree in case if in the future I wish to continue my education on to something else in the health care world. I was just wondering about the hemostatic agent because anyone can buy it and use it. As an EMR I can't help someone with it, but not as an EMR I can help someone with it if they request it, just like if I were a bystander. Is the bystander option ever optional? or with the EMR card you are stuck as an EMR and you have to follow EMR protocol until your card expires? It's not like I will be in a situation by myself where a patient is hemorrhaging so much that he or she needs a hemostatic agent anyway. It's just out of curiosity. But is there ever a time where you can have a "time out" of being an EMT, and just act as a bystander to help them with whatever? As an EMR I am allowed to open a medication bottle, hold a cup or straw and whatever the patient needs. I just can't shove it down their mouths for them or make them swallow the medication, I can't also put the medication in their mouths. But if you are in bystander mode, then there is not protocols stopping you from helping them with the medication. That's just what I don't currently understand and find confusing. I have thought about nursing. My mom is a NP so there was a lot of encouragement to take nursing from my mom. If I were to ever to get my BSN I wouldn't stay as one for long. I would probably advance to a CRNA program after the required years of nursing by the program. I found that working in the ambulance and right at the scene of an emergency is really I sort of want to be. I want to be the first person on the scene to help the patient in the best way possible and be able to transfer them to the advanced proper care they need.
  3. Hi everyone! my name is Lindsay and new here, obviously. I had some questions I was hoping some of you could help with. I have a pretty strong interest in joining the EMS field. I already volunteer as a firefighter with my local department and watched the EMT's always come and go. I'd listen to them over my radio at the station and thought it'd be neat to try it out. My chief directed me to take an EMR course before I actually put my money into a EMT-B course to see if I like it and then he'd put me on a run skeleton with the EMT's if I passed the EMR class and got my cards. I was able to third wing on the ambulance a couple days ago and I really enjoyed it. I did basic things such as taking vitals, stabilizing patients, and helped with the patient history. Now I am at the spot looking at taking the EMT-B course, this is where I am stuck at. I have seen a bachelors degree that offers a major in health sciences with a paramedic training course which allows you to become a paramedic after finishing. I know a paramedic school around me offers an associates degree in paramedic studies then allows you take the national registry examination, which is required in my state. Some of the degree's prerequisites is that you must be a current EMT and be at least the age of eighteen or older. The bachelors degree does not have either of those prerequisites. I am turning seventeen in July so I am pretty far from being able to take the associates degree. I figured that if I sign up for the bachelors degree I can start my paramedic training earlier than the associates degree, save money from doing the EMT-B course, and be more sellable to employers looking for paramedics because of the extra time of training. Do you think this is a okay path to go? Or do you think the bachelors degree will require you to be 18 to study and be a EMT? As I said it didn't say anything about being 18 or having to be an EMT. Has anyone been through a bachelors degree? A paramedic tech near me said not to do it because all it is after awhile is repetitive curriculum stretched long enough to the point where they can charge you more. When I look at the curriculum it just looks like it digs deep into and all over health sciences which I think would help. I have been debating with myself it may just be smart to take the EMT-B anyways to start with. All advice would be accepted. Question two is about controlling bleeding. In my EMR class we were taught as EMR's we can not use hemostatic gauze or hemostatic granules. Yet you can buy them online everywhere because regular people can use them as first aid care. I also learned if patients need help with medications or whatever that I can't administer myself, but they can take voluntarily with my help is allowed. So if I have hemostatic gauze and they are bleeding bad do you think I would be allowed if I ask to put it on and they say yes I can "help" by putting it on? Wouldn't it sort of be the same thing? Anyways, thanks in advance!
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