WayneRN

Gongratz to OP!

And I am SICK OF LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHINE ABOUT LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHINE!!!! /sarcasm:trout:

This reply is also to scrubsinthewasher, Scrubs, This is just to let you know how our system was set up so that you might be able to take something from it to use. If not, I apologize in advance for wasting your time. At the coal-fired power plant that I worked at, the EMT's on site were actually employees of the power plant in other capacities. Some were mechanics, electricians, wharehouse personnel, administrative assistants and more. Each was a volunteer firefighter/EMT for the all-volunteer Emergency Response Team. Each carried special radios/pagers so that they could hear the tones and instructions over the internal emergency medical response system. Now, all of the medical, nursing, and EMS oversight functions were contracted out to a provider. My boss was also the occ. med. provider for the plant and the medical director for the EMT's. The Emergency Response Team had a coordinator that they elected from among their own ranks, but they reported directly to their medical director, which was also my boss. Anytime I had a problem with an EMT, I simply reported it to my boss, and they took care of it. If the EMT's had a problem with me, they did the same. Each of us had our own sets of protocols/policies&procedures. The EMT's were responsible for first response out in the plant, and for pre-hospital care. These area's are really outside of the expertise of a nurse, so I was very glad for their presence. My relationship with the EMT's was more of a collaborative one than one of supervisor/supervisee, the later which seems to have a built in antagonistic component. Can you restructure so that the EMT's report directly to their medical director? Anyway, I wish you good luck in finding a solution to your problem. WayneRN

rafael, If you will remember that chemistry is not really a science course so much as it is an exercise in applied algebra, you should do okay. WayneRN

When I was going to school for my ADN, we had one instructor that was a gass! She taught our A&P classes. She told everyone in the class that we could use one double sided 8 & 1/2" X 11" cheat sheet for each test. We could write anything that we wanted to on the sheet, copy from the book, diagram anatomy, lecture notes, whatever. We could write as small as we wanted in order to fit as much information on the page as possible. And we could refer to this cheat sheet during the test. Well... She was wise like a fox. By the time we took the trouble to look everything up, read it to determine if it was important or not, made our notes on what was important and transposed it in very small print to our cheat sheet--We knew the information so well that very rarely did you ever catch anyone even referencing their well-prepared cheat sheet! What brilliance! WayneV

Thanks for posting these tips.

Our local hospital (which I do not work at) had a full page ad declaring how special nurses are, and they tagged on this line, "...after all, it's not just a career, it's a calling." I almost regurgitated my breakfast.

I finally came to the conclusion, after years of confusion, that the reason I work at a J-o-b is to support my family... NOT the other way around! In other words, my family is more important than my job. They are so important that they are the reason I work at my job. I know that some people work at their family to support their job. But these people usually define themselves by their career instead of using their career as a tool in creating their life. One of these days someone is going to wake up very lonely. I've never heard any of my terminal patients complain that they wish they had spent more time at work!