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[Dave]

How many Medics do we have here?

Why the jump to Nursing?


I am fire based and work 24 on 72 off so Nursing would make a great second career/part-time job.

 Dave

[enlite]

Hi,


Im a medic.   Nursing is a great way to continue/extend a medic career.  Also nursing provides great job security and many opportunies.

[seh24599]

I'm a medic!    Gettin' ready to take my 3rd NC test next friday! I figured, i don't want to be 50 years old pullin' some drunk out of the car at 3am;) but i will always play on the ambulance since it's my first love. Where are you a medic? I'm in Knoxville Tn. right now, but getting ready to move
to south carolina to be with my fiance.....that's why excelsior's so great, i can finish school anywhere.

shannon

[Dave]

I live and work in Collinsville, IL.

Here check this out, I am somewhere in that group.

http://216.8.64.82/CityDepartments/FireandRescue/tabid/119/Default.aspx

 Dave

[enlite]

Im in Houston, TX.   Getting ready to take the CPNE for the third and last time!!!   If anyone have questions or need a study partner please let me know

[PFONS]

I am a medic in south texas, near Victoria.  If anyone is interested in a study partner.  Currently on Micro.

Thanks

[txnurse67]

Enlite

can I ask where you did your CPNE testing? I am in Texas also and have heard really bad things about Plano, Just wondering if you took your test there?

[hoodmedic]

Hello.  I'm a medic/ff located in metro atlanta.  i'm starting micro and would appreciate a study partner.  let me know when you want to get started.  i purchased my materials this a.m. and hopefully will receive them early next week.  What goals have you set for taking your 1st test?  Is 45 days to ambitious?  Let me know....

[Lisa, RN]

I'm a medic (volunteer) in Front Royal, Virginia -- it's about 50 miles west of DC. I'm planning on keeping my EMT-P after I finish -- I love being a medic, but I also love working in the ER -- that's why I'm back in school! 

[firepilot17]

Medic here.  Work for a full time NE Ohio fire dept and been a medic for about 10 years.  I also work in an ED as a medic. 

[Lisa, RN]

I also work in an ED as a medic. 

Just curious -- are you actually enabled to function as a medic in the ED? As in, give medications and do assessments? Where I work, I'm a little more limited in my scope -- no meds, no assessing, no doing triage. I do a lot of IVs and EKGs, and general patient care.

[firepilot17]

I can do triage, IV's, blood draws, EKG's, foley's, fiberglass splints, crutch training, most other splints, can give drugs in a code, but mosly I stock and transport pts to CAT scan, X-ray and the floor.  They call us in when a nurse calls off to do triage.  Everyone knows I'm in school so I try to observe everything I can.  Some of the residents have let me staple and do a dental block.  Since we can do all those things, some of the nurses have become lazy and basically only do assessments and give drugs.  Sometimes their assessments are what I tell them after I've triaged the pt.  Great experience. 

[Lisa, RN]

Yeah, I do lots of splints (3M Orthoglass) and crutch training, and who can forget all the Foleys? Hee hee! I also do a lot of outpatient labs (we have to do those on weekdays, they can be a pain because the ER patients have to come first, so the outpatients get pushed back).

I've removed sutures, but that's about it ... I'd love to try suturing/stapling, but I'd get in trouble if I did that.

All the RNs I work with are great -- they pass on little tricks and tips all the time, and they don't mind when I ask questions. A lot of them tell me I know more than they do, ha ha!!

[Medic103]

I am a paramedic, (obviously, from my handle!  ). I just joined the group, and have been a Paramedic in CA for , well, let's just say a long time!  I love my job, but realize that I can not do it forever! Also, I recognize the many doors that will be open once I get my RN!  Looking forward to chatting with all of you, and helping each other out!

[kjdemuth]

Hey all,
          I'm a FF/pmdc from metro atlanta.  I've been a medic in 2 states (north and south) for 11 years.  I've noticed that alot of my peers either went to med school or PA school.  We'll I don
t have enough time or money to do either.  I was in nursing school for my BSN before I became a medic.  Since I don't want to be bouncing around a ambulance or fire truck till I'm 55, nursing seems like my next career.  I'm taking my microbiology now and I can't seem to get into the grove of studying.  Anyone have any guides or CLEP info for passing it?  Thanks for the help.

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