medic6070

medic6070 has 1 years experience and specializes in ER paramedic.

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1. Northwest Indiana hospitals hiring new grads?

   medic6070 replied to Ihoplover's topic in Indiana

   I have 30 + years of experience in pre-hospital EMS. 11 of those years as a paramedic. I got my ASN from Ivy Tech Valpo last May and passed the NCLEX the first time last Sept. Since then I have had 6 interviews and no offers! I had my second intervie...

2. OB Rotations

   medic6070 replied to ImThatGuy's topic in General Students

   I've been a Paramedic for 11 years and have not had to deliver a baby, although I think I would like to. It's probably a good thing since during my OB rotation (8 hours) in medic training none of the patients would allow a male student to observe the...

3. An open letter to the ER triage nurse

   medic6070 replied to laurasc's topic in Relations

   Thank you for mentionong the "ambulance attendents". I am a Paramedic with 30+ years of pre-hospital experience. I see people on what may well be the worst day of their life even if it is not, seeing me is defiently not what they had planned for the ...

4. How much time do you *really*spend studying?

   medic6070 replied to yesitslaura's topic in General Students

   I am a fulltime paramedic ( 20 years as a basic EMT and the last 11 as a medic) who works 24 hour shifts. I am allowed to study on downtime (after housekeeping chores, training, audit and review, and in between runs). I made straight A's throught my ...

5. If you had a choice between 2 year community, or a university....

   medic6070 replied to Lala27poodles's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I live in northwest Indiana and currently working as a paramedic (10 + years, 29 total in pre-hospital). I am in my last semester of an ADN program at a CC. I chose this option so that I could begin working quicker and I would have some form of tuiti...

6. Male Nurses

   medic6070 replied to Keptonkurtis's topic in General Nursing

   I am a Paramedic, a Volunteer Firefighter, a nursing student, and I am male. I am attending a communinty college in the Associate of Science in Nursing degree program with two semesters left. There are 5 males in my class of 60 nursng students and as...

7. Age Factor

   medic6070 replied to rpc19's topic in Male Students

   :yeah:Started college at 47. I have finished my general education requirements and have been accepted into the ASN program at Ivy Tech State College in Valpariso, In. for the fall semester (next month, I get more exicited every day). I turned 48 toda...

8. Rudeness from EMTs and Paramedics

   medic6070 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   I have been a paramedic for 7 years, an EMT for 19 years before that. During Paramedic training we had to do rotations in a locked down psych ward, OB, a LTC, cath lab, ER, accompany a respitatory therapist for a day, watch an autopsy, and finally pr...

9. Any Ivy Tech Gary or Valpo students?

   medic6070 replied to Melnickovich's topic in Indiana

   I am applying for the fall semester at Valpo an d the way I undersatnd it is;The four prereq's (A & P 1-2, Eng. Comp, Intro to Psych.) have to be completed prior to the application deadline for the letter grades to be assigned the point values th...

10. Another TEAS question........... :o)

    medic6070 replied to Innurse78's topic in Indiana

    I am attending IVY TECH Valpo. Here they only use one TEAS test score. I got an 84.2% and am applying for the fall semester starting in August.

11. Rudeness from EMTs and Paramedics

    medic6070 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

    Maybe they left to go work a code or a motor vehicle accident. How many ambulances does your community have available per shift? I live in a small rural town, we have two (2) ambulances on duty for schedueled as well as non-schedueled transports and ...

12. I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

    medic6070 replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    I am still working as a Paramedic while finishing the co-requisite classes for my ASN, prior to starting the program in the fall of '08. I have been an EMT since 1981 and a MEDIC since 2000.