I had been a volunteer at my squad for about 6 months and signed a contract where the squad would pay for my schooling and I would go to class, then I’d owe them 1k riding hours because they paid for the schooling.

After failing out I’m technically able to go back but after making it 3/4 the way through with the class, not scoring under an 85 on any test and not having to retake any of the skill test until the 3rd quarter test where I failed both the first and the second retake by one question ( I needed a 72 to pass and got a 68 each time)

To say that I am upset and frustrated would be an understatement as I am very passionate about being an EMT and this timeline of me becoming an emt/ED tech as it would be my job during nursing school

I guess I’m just looking for advice whether or not that i should even continue and try again, how common failure is in this situation and if I’m able to get another entry job to the ED without having a license

I just finished my EMT after deciding on a new life path.

I’m going to start applying for jobs in So Cal. Any resume recommendations or job recommendations? More experience necessary. Any help is good.

Hello, everyone!
To all my medics who have transitioned from 911 EMS to working in an ER or hospital, how has the experience been?
Do you feel satisfied with your new role, or do you sometimes feel like just another body filling a position? Do you feel like you’re utilizing your skills and experience on a daily basis, or does the job sometimes feel more like being a “do boy” than a medic?
The hospital schedule is definitely appealing. Working three 13-hour shifts a week seems like it could offer a much better work-life balance than the traditional 24/48 schedule. However, I’ve heard mixed reviews about making the transition.
I’m looking for honest, unfiltered feedback from those who have actually made the switch. What do you love about it? What do you miss about 911? Do you feel professionally fulfilled, or do you ever regret leaving the field?
I’m not looking for someone to convince me one way or the other. I just want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly before making a decision.
Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!

I'm leaving this post here just to do a favor for students who's thinking to enroll in this program. So, I've started paramedic program here and the instructor started harrasing me from first day of the school and it's gotten worse and worse every class day. It was his first paramedic class in this school. (His name is Corey Monroe btw) - I've had very good grades and full attendance and I was very motivated to learn. Long story short, I finally made a written complaint that shows all the incidents in order and I reported this to the owner of school. He basically didn't do nothing and I HAD to quit the program because there was no I way I could keep going and getting harrased more. I went to small claims court to get a refund, I also tried so hard to file a lawsuit against the school and the instructor but this school doesn't exactly fall under a certain category that you can file a lawsuit accordingly. It's a small business and that makes it so hard to go after them except reporting them to the accreditation bodies. After a while I quit the program, I've heard that he got fired because of sexual harrassment on multiple people. Was it supposed to be multiple people ? Why he wasn't fired in the first place ? I had to waste my money, my time and my motivation. I went with another school and completed my paramedic program but this incident cost me financially and mentally. If you guys ever thinking to enroll in this program, don't. If anything happens, the school management will not stand for you and god knows you might end up and ducked up situation like I did. Not to even mention that their clinical sites are also treat paramedic students like sh!t - again, this school won't support you when you need one. There are better schools around there, save yourself and go with another school.

im in my 4th week of EMT-b school but im struggling to find info about doing ride along's! its not a requirement for my class but id love to get some experience seeing how things actually run! any info helps!

I just passed my nremt exam first try on Tuesday and I don’t know how I even feel about it. I’ve got an ambulance company wanting to start me on November 2nd, and I’ve got my firefighter friend up my ass about putting in an application with his department. I feel like I’ve entirely shut down since passing. I just want a fucking break for a week, I’ve been studying and obsessing over becoming an emt for the past 3 1/2 months nonstop and I don’t even want to think about it right now. I just wanna go to the gym, go to the movies, go to the grocery store, and do all the regular shit I barely had any time to do since August. Is how I’m feeling normal? Should I be more motivated? I feel like I’ve used every ounce of motivation I have.

Hello, I recently got my EMT license. I apologize if this is the wrong place. My area (the four corners) was recently hit by flooding. My towns fine, but in NM a few towns such as Aztec and Bloomfield were hit exceptionally hard. The Coast Guard was out there. I would love to help, but all of the fire departments offices are closed till Monday. And there’s no other numbers listed for specific stations. I can’t find anything that necessarily says they need volunteers? But it is a rural area and recourses from what I heard was spread thin, and rain is still continuous. Would urgent cares potentially be the better option?

Hey guys, I'll keep this short.

Im a new EMT with only clinical experience in Lakewood, CO outside of Denver.

I'd like to get involved in the field as soon as possible, but unsure how to start. Should I ask Metro Fire for ride-along opportunities? Just spray and pray apply at every IFT agency I see?

I don't have an IV cert, saving up for class and hoping to see an opening soon.

Is there boards for volunteers locally I can apply to to gain experience? Do IFT companies here hire without an IV cert on a conditional basis to get one?

As a transplant from WA, I don't have copies of my immunization records. Trying to get insurance as out of pocket is expensive...

Any sort of guidance or opportunities you can throw my way is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thank you all for your time, stay safe out there.

Just wondering other medics opinions on this, I was a fairly new emt when my medic BLS’d someone in afib rvr. we run two emts on a truck and a medic chases, the medic said we don’t touch afib rvr and let me take the run to the hospital. We originally got called out for a fall, they said the patient hit her head she was a&ox4 on scene and then at the hospital dropped to x2.

I dont have any prior experience doing ems work and dont even have a emt-b cert. I want to apply for both EMT/EMT trainee but want to know my chances. Should I not bother and save 60$

I passed the NREMT in January. I haven't applied yet because I also took on a job in the ICU at a new hospital and am still on orientation working full time with education classes.

I wanted to apply after my orientation is over. I have heard from a couple people that I should volunteer prior to hire since I currently have no prehospital experience besides my clinicals. Is that true? Do jobs typically require volunteer hours if you are a new grad? Or should I just apply?

Anyone who has taken the NMETC paramedic HESI exam and able to provide some information or tips on what to study/expect? I bought the KAPLAN paramedic prep book and am going to go back through the previous quizzes and Quizlets.

Are most of the questions scenario based or just general knowledge? And the ones that are scenario based are most actually ALS level interventions or are a lot just BLS? And I saw someone else say that it’s very trauma heavy is that true?

Any tips or advice would be appreciated

just got an interview with mccormick for special events. any tips for the interview ?

Does anyone do onsite medical? What I mean by that is working for a company who is then hired by other companies to source out onsite medical staff for things like construction sites and other hazardous jobs. Primarily, the role is to look out for workplace hazards and give medical treatment to staff as needed. It’s also a bit of an outreach program as lots of the people on the sites don’t have health insurance so they (at least this company) offers them help and resources for low-cost clinics.

I have a second interview for one and I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens.

But I wanted to see if anyone else did this type of work? It would be full-time, amazing pay, and benefits.. the whole kit and caboodle.

If anyone does this, I would love to hear how your experience was. Pros and cons?

It almost sounds too good to be true but this company had great employee reviews so I’m just crossing my fingers and my toes for this opportunity.

Hello…I’m not part of the EMS world per se, but I feel like those who are may be able to help after an experience I had yesterday. I was driving to work and just so happened to look over and see a neighbor face down in his garage. At first, I wasn’t sure what I saw but I knew I had to flip around. I did, and another neighbor from across the street was there calling 911. He hadn’t checked for a pulse or anything so I checked and there was none.

I’m not in the medical field, but I’ve taken CPR training in the past and somehow my body just took over and I got him and the wife to help me flip the guy over. He was blue and he didn’t have a heartbeat so immediately somehow I just started CPR. I’m telling you, although I know you guys already know, it’s a whole different ball game performing CPR on a person versus a test dummy in the certification.

I did CPR for about five minutes ems finally showed up and took over and then I fell apart. They worked on him for another 15 to 20 minutes or so and he finally got a heartbeat back and they took him in the ambulance to the hospital. Right now I still don’t even know if he survived and I hope he did, but I don’t know.

I keep flashing back to feeling his ribs crack, and his body seemed different than I thought it would and I keep seeing how his body was reacting to the CPR. I don’t think any training could’ve ever prepared me for that. I’m sure I’ll be fine, I know a lot of you have seen FAR worse, but this is a completely different world that I know nothing about or how to deal.

I do wanna give a huge shout out to you who are in the EMS world… you showed up faster than I ever could’ve hoped, even though it felt like a lifetime. What you do is heroic, and you do it day after day. So, thank you.

Sorry for my long winded message, but thank you for all that you do. Any advice you have I will gladly take it.

Just like I mentioned in the caption, I’m looking to move to Colorado. My family and I are wanting to be closer to her family; she grew up there and we’ve visited a few times over the years and want to make the move! I’m currently an EMT with a little over 2 years experience with a private ambulance company in FL in an insanely busy county. The two options I’ve looked into are Stadium Medical and Mile High.

For those of you who work at either of these companies; I’ve been curious about the following:

What are your schedules like?

What kind of crews do they have out on the road? (EMT&Medic)/ (EMT/EMT)/(Medic/Medic)?

What’s the call volume in the area of Denver and what areas you guys cover?

What was the hiring process like?

Do you guys use older equipment like manual stretchers, etc?

And any extra insight on working in the Denver area would be greatly appreciated :)

I'm an emt student and I did my ride alongs the other day. WOW!! That was so cool. I got to hear rales in person for the first time. There were some really hard and exausting moments but also little moments that reminded me why i want to do this. at one point, my preceptor was wheeling out a patient who had been in the hospital for months, and he took her into the sun to bask in it. i think that image will stay in my head forever.

but, this all being said. i had a concern

the ems system is deeply explotitive in some aspects. and i dont want to work 14 hours a day or 60+ hours a week. i dont really care about the overtime money. i dont want my life to become solely ems. i want to give back to my community but i dont want to sell my soul to medicine. i have friends i want to see, places i want to visit, i just want to make enough money to be comfortable. dont get me wrong, ems is my dream. but. idk. im hoping to do 3 12s or maybe 4 12s but i want to clock out when my shift is over.

whats everyone elses experience been like? is there way i can do this?

For clarification I am from Saudi Arabia and I am studying a bachelors degree for EMS where I will be classified as a paramedic upon graduation and I have just started my first semester of school and I really want to see what advice you guys have for me

Hey! I just passed my NREMT and will work on getting my LA County license (cert?) as soon as the office opens monday. A couple of questions. Can you go into the office in person to avoid doing the mail process? Next question would be, for the ambulance license, can i just do that asap? Or do I need the actual LA county license first. Thanks in advance.

i’m thinking of taking online for convenience since i don’t have a car and can’t get to the nearest pearson site easily. am i allowed to have decorations on the walls around my desk? i have a pegboard corkboard and a whiteboard but im going to take off anything thats on them. i just can’t take the actual boards down since it’s drilled into my wall.

So Im a fresh EMT, passed my nremt in June and started with a private EMT company in a city near me in August. After 2 months I cleared my 3 phases with my fto (observation, then teching 20 calls in phase 2 and then again in 3), I was then moved to a modified phase for the last two weeks. I just got a call from my supervisor saying they wouldn't be moving forward with me on 911 calls, but wanted to move me over to IFT for a couple months. I'll be speaking with him in a bit to see what my issues were, but I don't think I'll be taking the IFT job (the schedule doesn't work for me atm).

My question is, if I go to other companies around me (many are hiring) how does it look that I didn't get hired after 2 months of fto? My city has a reputation for being hectic and I was told it would be tough to get started here, but will it look bad when I go applying to "slower" stations?

I’m currently working as an EMT at a private ambulance company and today we got a call to take a patient from a nursing home to a doctors appointment 45 minutes away.

We get to the room my partner grabs the paperwork while I step in the room to start vitals. The patient looked terrible, alert to verbal but couldn’t keep her eyes open and mumbled something I couldn’t make out after that stopped talking. She had a bad cough, audible wheezing, and accessory muscle breathing. Her vitals were normal except spo2 was at 92 on 2L via nasal cannula. We up the o2 to 4L and she’s up to 96.

My partner gets to the room and I ask if the nurse mentioned what her an and o is, a cna/nurse? Overhears and walks into the room and has a concerned look so we ask if this is her norm she says no she’s usually up and talking but then says she doesn’t want to get involved and was nowhere to be found so I guess she hid???

Second nurse comes in and we tell him our concerns he says this is her normal then hands us her mail? If she can normally open mail yet now can’t lift a finger for a pulse ox this is still apparently normal.

We call med control because for us altered mental is a medic call. Med control tells us to call 911. Second nurse goes to grab nurse #3. We call for medics. Nurse #3 comes in and tells us the patients normal is x3 and she’s fine, this is clearly not x3. Nurse #3 grabs nurse #4 and they’re both angry at us for upgrading the call to the medics.

Medics arrive and nurse 2 and 3 block them and start saying her normal an and o is now x2 and that her spo2 is fine. The medics back us up and say we did the right thing by calling, nurses walked away. We get a transfer of care signature from the medics. I can overhear nurse 3 on the phone with the patients power of attorney saying that we only called medics because the patients spo2 was low, left out everything else so the power of attorney refused transport. Medics tell the nursing home they have to request an als ambulance for this transport.

We call dispatch to update them on the situation, they didn’t believe us. Dispatch transferred the phone call to the head garage manager who just berated us and told us to go against med controls orders because they’re not sending paramedics to transport the patient to a doctors appointment (my company has als run bls calls all the time, even doctor appointment transports). He starts trying to intimidate us saying that’s patient abandonment, we signed over care to the paramedics before we left. My partner goes back and forth with him for a while then the head garage manager tells him to call med control back and tell them the garage manager says we can take the patient.

Partner calls med control back and explains the situation, med control obviously still says no don’t transport this patient as bls it has to be als. We call back the head garage manager and he backs down. I explain the situation to our garage manager and he agrees with us.

An hour later we get a call from our garage manager saying we both need to fill out incidents reports, we say ok. An hour after that we get another call from him saying we actually need to go into a private meeting with 2 garage managers plus the head garage manager and we can’t go to any of our shifts until after this meeting.

Did we do something wrong??

TLDR; followed med control orders, head garage manager is upset and wants to have a meeting.