ErikWeeWoo BSN, RN, EMT-P

ED/ICU/EMS

New Member

About ErikWeeWoo

ErikWeeWoo has 13 years experience as a BSN, RN, EMT-P and specializes in ED/ICU/EMS.


Heyyo! I'm Erik, I'm an RN/NRP. I've been a paramedic for 9 years and a nurse for 7. I started my journey in medicine as a vet tech, then became an EMT PCT & psych tech. I got my paramedic during my first 2 years of nursing school. 

I work in an emergency medicine/critical care float pool (adult/peds ED, ICUs, psych ED, RRT, trauma) and also prehospital with my EMS agency. I also have worked in family med, urgent care, substitute school nursing, Summer camp nursing, and still do occasionally take shifts elsewhere. Currently, I'm using my experience as an ECMO RN & PHRN/Paramedic to develop a ground ECMO transport program within my EMS agency. 

Thanks for having me, I hope to contribute to this community!

Latest Activity

  1. EMS Report EMS brings the patient into the assigned room and transfers her to the bed via sheet drag. "This is Kayleigh; she's 11 years old and coming from home today. Parents report she has...
  2. ErikWeeWoo

    Don't know how this guy lived

    Just have to share this one, it's too crazy to not... 20yo male college student arrived in police custody by police cruiser, local campus PD on a domestic violence charge. Moderately disoriented to...
  3. ErikWeeWoo

    Switching to children’s psych from adult psych?

    I work occasionally in psych emergency department as an RN, used to be a psych tech for both adult & peds units back when I was an EMT. I definitely found working with the kiddos to be more...
  4. ErikWeeWoo

    Stroke Sx’s....Complacent Teachers

    I honestly think you did a pretty good job. Her co-workers may or may not of had duty to act, failure to act on their part is no reflection on you and likely something that nobody can or will be held...
  5. I'm going to geek out a bit if that's okay, hopefully others find this interesting. Basically everything about the avian respiratory system is really cool and unique. The avian respiratory cycle...
  6. I don't have that many intubations, but I have more than most of my EMS coworkers and I'm pretty comfortable with it, I'm not doing it daily either. I'd agree with you that normal canid anatomy is...
  7. Given how medicine works right now, never because it's usually considered an MD skill - however, once upon a time in history even IVs were considered an MD only skill. If it was a nursing skill though...
  8. When I was in high school, I worked at an animal sanctuary/wildlife park. They wanted me to be a vet tech, so I was going to a vet tech program at the community college during my senior year in high...
  9. I've been active in EMS for 8 years and have been active as an RN for 6 years. I don't understand where all the tension between RNs and Paramedics comes from. It's very much so two different...
  10. This isn't happening just in Africa. Vaccine experiments are happening in the US and other countries as well. It's important to test something like this among many populations, and I don't understand...