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Many years ago, my mom was a home health nurse. She married the husband of a cancer patient she had been taking care of after she died. I thought it was strange at the time, but my children liked him, and he liked them. I don't think any of his fam...

I'm a paramedic, and I am against it. For one, you are enabling an administrator to exploit you. Two, you are treading in to turf where more often than not, you are not wanted. Nurses should be against it too. Don't you want to protect the value o...

Dixie McCall at Rampart General Hospital from the Emergency series in the 70's

The taxes in Beaumont are high, and if you want your kids indoctrinated into the street culture, send them to the public schools. They have good Catholic schools, and at least two other Protestant schools. There is alot of old money in Beaumont, an...

I was searching specifically for a nursing listserv, to compare your issues to those of the paramedics. I find that many of the complaints/concerns about your jobs are the same as ours. I also found that the grammar and spelling here are no better ...

My mother was a home health nurse, told me funny story. I hope I'm not leaving anything out. She was caring for an elderly man, post-cva. He had a poor memory also. The first day she was in his home and he asked for his smoking materials, my mother i...

I'm getting prereq's outta the way for a medic to rn program. I ran a call this morning that made me doubt my decision a little. An elderly gentleman fell in his home, was almost completely covered with tarry black stool. He was as jaundiced as a ...

Will they admit men?

I'll occasionally see a high-powered specialist in er, with his very attractive nurse in tow. I mean a b*tt ugly drooling nerd cardiologist with a super-model looking nurse, wearing very nice clothes with an immaculate lab coat. I've never seen a m...

I would think it would be dependent on circumstances. For example, a young person commits a non-violent crime. Serves their time, probation, whatever. Never offends again. Goes to school to improve non-gender-specific self. Sure, give them a chanc...

I have respect for LTC nurses, I have an idea what their jobs are like. Most encounters (few now) are pleasant, LTC nurses are people too. The problem I had when I frequented LTC facilities was not with the rudeness or politeness of the staff. The...

I have several reasons, all have varying degrees of importance. I have a caring attitude toward others most of the time, and even when I don't, I'm good at faking it. I have the aptitude and the skills to do the job well, and have proven myself und...

I've come up with a diagnosis for my kids: Motivational Deficit Disorder.

I'll never forget the time I picked up one particular overdose patient. We woke her with narcan, she became combative enroute. After moving her to the bed in the ED, she offered to bite the charge nurse. The nurse snarled: "Bite me, and you'll be ...

That perked me up too! If I have a combative head-injured patient, a combative patient in fulminating pulmonary edema, whatever, the only restraint necessary might be until the IV is secured, and I can sedate, then paralyze them. I don't do it just...

A littman, or littman wannabe(as long as it has vinyl tubing) Latex tubing transmits too much environmental noise, such as you would find in an ambulance, or helicopter.

I can't remember a time when I didn't have a high-pitch whine in both ears. Even as a child. I try to tune it out. My hearing has definitely suffered after 17 years of sirens blaring.

I had no idea there was such a specialization. I became a registered massage therapist about 7 years ago, but have never gone into practice ,save for one brief period. When I become a nurse, is there a separate curriculum for NMT'S that I must take...

I believe that what holds EMS back the most is that Medicare only pays a pittance for our services, and medicaid and the insurance companies follow medicare. The private EMS company owners make money hand over fist, but pay as little as they can get...

I know of 2 programs in my area. One of them is at Lamar State College Port Arthur, the other at San Jacinto College North. I think both take 1 year. The one in Port Arthur does not work around your EMS schedule. I know a few medics in it. A cou...

that post really shook me for a bit. All my former co-workers who have gone thru EC have done very well in our area, most becoming charge nurses, or flying with air rescue. I do have to wonder if BSRNs feel resentment at 2 year rn's making as much....

Rales sound thin and watery, you usually hear them first in the lower lobes. History helps too. If the patient suddenly woke up in the middle of the night with dyspnea, has a history of hypertension and the associated meds, no fever, and JVD bilate...

Go join the TExas EMS listserv. It's almost all they talk about now. Its a proposal for a National Scope of Practice. Alot of big city fire department EMS systems would welcome it, because it would take the pressure off of them to increase their ca...

We use Etomidate and sux also. If we need to re-sedate prior to arrival, we give em another 20 of sux. If its a dialysis patient, and one with burns or crush injuries over 24 hours old(when would we run into this?) we would use vec. I have heard th...

I was a private service medic for 6 years, and I do not remember those days with fondness. We had to be kiss-*ss sweet to all facility staff, regardless of whatever rudeness they felt like dishing out(and there were a few with soap-opera lives who l...