medicaljohnny

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1. EMT-B/AEMT

   medicaljohnny posted a topic in Career Support

   I am currently in EMT-B training. I have a month of class left. They particularly came to me and told me about the AEMT (EMT-I) starting right after EMT-B and gave me the heads up that I can join upon my passing. Let me give you details for my questi...

2. Nursing and then some to MD?

   medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Career Support

   I understand that but what I'm saying is because as a nurse you know what Lovanox is and what hydrocodone, morphine, Advil, etc. where as a regular person knows. You know the types of diseases because you have healed people with them. That doesn't al...

3. Nursing and then some to MD?

   medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Career Support

   Then how do I get to MD? I mean I know I have to do my 8 years but I mean I need a good medical paying job to get some experience to be a doctor so I don't go in blind, plus I can have the money saved up so I don't need to work too much during school...

4. Nursing and then some to MD?

   medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Career Support

   Because I don't think I can pay for it on a CNA salary. Plus I want the experience. I'd like to go this path, but was wondering of the ability to do it the way I asked. Is it at all possible? Does it get classes out the way?

5. Nursing and then some to MD?

   medicaljohnny posted a topic in Career Support

   So here is an idea I had. I am a CNA right now and one of my patients said he had a degree in NP and a Ph.D in Psychology and said because he is so well off in his medical stuff he has taken a lot of the courses he needed to be a doctor. He could do ...

6. Starting Paramedic School..

   medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Career Support

   True Pixie but I trust this site more than others. There are some very good people in the very deep know here and I'd like to get their opinions as even nurses know about paramedic things a good amount of the time. Though because they only see them w...

7. Career CNA's

   medicaljohnny replied to futureLVN40's topic in CNA/MA

   MA's have to go through a year of training in Houston, Texas and CNA's only 6 weeks. MA's make more and have more opportunities. Here is my experience as a CNA: Be prepared to be a nurse's play thing. I'll put it like that and I won't glorify it mor...

8. Starting Paramedic School..

   medicaljohnny posted a topic in Career Support

   So I'm going to start EMT-B school in Jan hopefully. Then go to intermediate. Then Paramedic. Anything I should know? Things I do know: - I'm a CNA, so I've been around horrible wounds and patients bleeding out - I know CPR and know what a critical p...

9. LVN Help Please

   medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

   The amount of ego in this forum is ridiculous. I'm done. All I wanted to know was what to study. Anatomy: Which parts of which bones...nerves? Cells? Nursing...What is a temperature..pulse...respiration. What is the hypothalamus...what is sun-down sy...

10. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Ladyfree28: "Instead of being two hairs short if being RUDE, WHY don't YOU get all that knowledge is best served once you get to class????" ............."WHY aren't YOU understanding, since you get critical thinking 100%, hmmm???" And two short hairs...

11. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    As for my recent call out on the 'Good grasp on all the knowledge'...critical thinking IS NOT knowledge. It is critical THINING. knowledge is 1+1=2 but critical thinking is much more advanced. When I said. "I want to have a great grasp on all the kno...

12. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    LadyFree28 and loriangel14, I 100% understand there is critical thinking. There's allergies, weaknesses, problems, etc. Everyone is different. This doesnt escape me. But reading that the temperature may cause something to happen to the heart in a deg...

13. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Lord lord lord.....I never said I wanted to grasp ALL the knowledge. I want to grasp the written knowledge. What is a Core temperature, what is a surface temperature, or facts such as 1 degree in temp can change the heart rate by up to 4 beats per mi...

14. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Hence my frustration! Haha. LadyFree28: I understand all of what you say about nursing not being just a thing like math or English. I know of the critical thinking. I work as a CNA currently. But I can't do vitals or take someone to the restroom with...

15. LVN Help Please

    medicaljohnny replied to medicaljohnny's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Thank you Pooky! THIS is the kind of thing I need to know! If people read my last statements this is what I was kinda asking for. Because I don't want to find a small nick that I can't get by and fail, I want to know a crap load so if there is a smal...