Advice From All You Medics
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prospect85
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Wow i can relate with all of you all. Im currently in a 6 month paramedic course and boy is it a hammering! Suprisingly im still able to retain alot of info thus far. Got another month before clincals and FD rotations start. I cant wait till its all over so i can get back to shift work! Oh btw Hey my name is Dee and this is my first post!
kellymoe
Expedition Leader
Ah, I remember the days:REExeSwimmingHL: ........trying to keep my head above water. A misspelled word meant failing that drug..... Keep up the good work guys.
jh504
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I think we are at 51 here in Wake County. We havnt started on drugs yet, but it is coming up soon. Clinicals will be starting the first of March.
Sounds like our programs are way different. We dont do clinicals till we are completly finsihed with all of our classroom/diadactic. Sounds like you guys do both at the same time. I can see advantages of both. You get to pratice things as you learn them. Intresting. Keep me posted. I dont sart clinicals till the middle of July.
jh504
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Yeah, this is a new thing they have started here to give people the opportunity to start thinking like a paramedic, in the field, early on. As we get cleared for new skills we will be able to perform them in the field. The first few weeks it will just be assessments then we will start drug pushes later on. I like it because we are able to spread out our clinical time over the year instead of doing it all the second half of the year.
Sounds like a good idea. I guess our program is sort of set up the same way now that I think of it. I have to remeber I'm the exception being a cop. Most of the other students are FF and working EMTs. We have school M/W/F. So on our days off most of my classmates go back to their shifts in the field. So they get to use with in limits or at least observe what we are learning that week in school.
I am at a big dissatvantage of having to wait til July till start applying skills.
I am at a big dissatvantage of having to wait til July till start applying skills.
jh504
Explorer
Just curious, what are you planning on doing when you get your paramedic? Are you going to switch over to EMS or will you be working as a medic with your police department or something along those lines?
JH, Sorry been real busy. Except for the last two years my first 13 years in LE were as Deputy. I have alwasys wanted to do SAR work and get paid for it. I took a City PD job when I came out to AZ from CA. When I finish school, plan A is to go to work for our State Police/Highway Patrol. They have (4) Bell 407's with bascially civilian pilots who they make cops and Officer Paramedics. They do a wide variety of missions.
Plan B will be (Depending on how the budget goes) to go back to being a Deputy with the local Sheriff and work on a Lake Patrol or Mt Rescue unit.
Plan B will be (Depending on how the budget goes) to go back to being a Deputy with the local Sheriff and work on a Lake Patrol or Mt Rescue unit.
jh504
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I hear you. I think Maryland State Police out here has medic officers on their helicopters as well. That would be a very cool job. I have noticed some of our State Troopers here in NC with the star of life on their car. Someone told me the other day that they have paramedic officers in rural districts in case they are first on scene with long ambulance response times. Not sure if that is accurate though.
When I worked in Ca CHP were all EMT out of the academy. I think that might be the case here in AZ as well. Don't know that any patrol guys are medics. Unless they have taken it upon themselves.
I just hope that Air Unit programs still exsist in the near future. It would be a a shame to wait all this time, put in all this work, just to find out the programs have been cut.
I have to tell you. Getting through A&P was a huge relief. :wings: I was beggining to think I had bitten off more than I could chew. :Wow1: It is still difficult. But doesnt seem impossible like the first three weeks.
I just hope that Air Unit programs still exsist in the near future. It would be a a shame to wait all this time, put in all this work, just to find out the programs have been cut.
I have to tell you. Getting through A&P was a huge relief. :wings: I was beggining to think I had bitten off more than I could chew. :Wow1: It is still difficult. But doesnt seem impossible like the first three weeks.
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jh504
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I might have a weird since of humor but I got a laugh out of this statement:sombrero:. It caught me off guard at first
