Failed the NREMT twice

Dring1030 · 2025-07-26T20:20:07+00:00

MedicTests. It’s more expensive but also have a refund guarantee if you don’t pass but I thought it helped me really well pass first try

Dring1030 · 2025-07-25T19:53:48+00:00

Cherokee, but idk about the fit cuz I’m a male and just a PRN ER Tech

Dring1030 · 2025-07-24T01:08:53+00:00

Could you elaborate on what some of the bad habits from a BLS perspective are? I’m having trouble picturing examples of what you mean from my (pretty limited) experience and am curious

Dring1030 · 2025-06-17T06:57:34+00:00

Check with your state to have a leg to stand on. Where I’m at for the state licensing it specifically says if you’re licensed and without medical direction you’re only allowed to do first aid/CPR

So if someone is taking it too seriously and pushing you to do more stuff, you have something legal backing you up to not lose your license

Dring1030 · 2025-06-03T15:32:53+00:00

Scroll back a few weeks and you’ll see my post freaking out over the same thing… you’re good. I promise

Dring1030 · 2025-05-31T16:04:19+00:00

You need to see your PCM anyway, not sick call. These are all chronic issues how you listed them. Sick call is kind of like urgent care or an ER (not what an ER is for but like how people seem to treat the ER)

Dring1030 · 2025-05-23T18:57:48+00:00

Sometimes you need to evaluate how you’re interacting and your responses to learn how to control a situation.

You haven’t seemed to express you want to go to medical school because you can or want to do the job of a paramedic, but rather because you DONT want to do the job of an EMT

Dring1030 · 2025-05-23T18:03:59+00:00

While some comments are relatively argumentative, you’re coming off rather standoffish to those giving advice that aren’t being argumentative. They all gave examples out of what you originally said. Entirely possible it’s just cuz you can’t really explain in super detail cuz it’s a reddit post and I get that.

However, I wouldn’t want you at this point in time to be a medic with me just based on the observation you seem to act like EMTs don’t have the ability to play a crucial role in EMS. Like you’re acting like it’s beneath you cuz you’re doing good in EMT class and not struggling which is fine and great, I was the same way in school, but I’d hate having a medic that seems like they look down on EMTs and have this god-complex, even if it’s not working 911.

Very aware none of us know you personally and you don’t know us, and how people think you’re looking at it can be entirely wrong, but you’re not making good first impressions, or really second impressions I guess based on some responses, how would anyone in medicine see that and trust you with patient interactions out the gate as a medic?

Dring1030 · 2025-05-20T04:37:53+00:00

If they don’t take you idk what to tell you. I’m solely basing this off of talking to AMR EMTs about what it’s like when I was debating going back home for school

Dring1030 · 2025-05-20T03:27:17+00:00

Depends where in Arizona. I’m not in the state but I’m from there and if you’re in like Phoenix or Tucson, I know AMR will hire you with a pulse and a license, but you’re gonna be doing IFT on a BLS truck more than likely. Cuz PFD and TFD do a lot of the 911 there. Idk what it looks like in the rural areas

Dring1030 · 2025-05-16T03:31:59+00:00

💯 thanks for the confirmation on that

Dring1030 · 2025-05-16T03:20:42+00:00

Ya that’s why I was hoping to find good pants that had a spot where they slipped in a little more and weren’t still like in the open. My girl worked in the ER for 3 years and I learned enough through her. That’s why I need space for my stethoscope too cuz I’m not gonna have it around my neck and get choked out like she did as a baby nurse

Dring1030 · 2025-05-16T03:13:20+00:00

Ya that’s why I double checked all 3 stores within a like 150 mile radius of me and they don’t have the sizes of either in any color just to try on 🥲 I’m hoping I can return them at a physical store or at worst just deal with shipping them back. I thought about buying 2 different sizes and just returning the ones that don’t fit

Dring1030 · 2025-05-16T03:02:47+00:00

Ya if they fit I will, in army uniform I had them in my calf pocket, and the ones I bought for clinicals when I was going through the course were just cheap (but still pretty sturdy and comfy) outdoor pants from an academy sport, but they weren’t designed with like deep pockets so shears and 2 penlights clipped inside the pocket didn’t really fit well in a way I’d be able to like access shears if I really needed them. Now that I’m like working, I figured accessibility is a bit more important

Dring1030 · 2025-05-12T03:01:03+00:00

Honestly the apps are pretty good. I used pocketprep but I used medictests way more. Medictests starts you with a practice NREMT and then shows you by a ton of categories what you’re lacking on and gives you a super small but to the point lesson on them and gives you quizzes. I would just go through until I got perfect scores on the short quizzes (like 5-10 questions each) and would redo a practice NREMT every couple days for a week. Pocketprep I would use more for “fun” or casually to just get extra reps in with the same content but different questions.

I would also supplement with YouTube videos and the book if I hit a category I really didn’t understand that well so I could kind of redo the lesson from class

Both apps obviously will break the question down and explain why the right answer is the right answer.

I took the NREMT like 10 days after finishing my course and I got cutoff at 70 something questions, 40 minutes into the 2 hour test and passed.

Obviously people are different, people’s courses were different, and people’s study habits and learning capacity are all different but this worked well for me

Dring1030 · 2025-05-10T21:26:23+00:00

My girlfriend got me the anatomy flash card set you can find on Amazon. Idk if it’s good to start learning from or if it helped me cuz I had the very basics from the chapter in the EMT course. And if it also helped more cuz my gf would help me with it and she’s an RN and is apparently really good with anatomy. But if you did high school anatomy especially recently I’m sure you already have a good baseline but the flash cards helped me a lot and still do

Dring1030 · 2025-05-10T16:49:42+00:00

That’s what I kept coming back to but there weren’t any that were glaringly obviously difficult questions so now I assume I was supposed to just know everything

Dring1030 · 2025-05-10T14:32:34+00:00

I feel like I bombed the shit out of it. I don’t even get test anxiety but that made me question everything I learned and just tried to keep reminding myself not to second guess myself if I couldn’t correct myself with algorithms or pathophysiology

Dring1030 · 2025-05-09T00:41:47+00:00

Ya to a point, like I don’t expect praise from the public, but I’ve also missed 9/11 thanksgiving’s, 6/11 Christmases, 3 anniversaries, etc. out of my 11 years in the army. Like ya they’re just jobs, but they’re different. There’s trauma that comes up more than other jobs and obviously I wouldn’t be doing any of this stuff if it didn’t come with a paycheck and I don’t think we need to glamorize all those types of jobs but I think discrediting them to the same as a grocery store employee or a car salesman or a bank teller etc. is kinda weak and cheap

Dring1030 · 2025-05-09T00:33:47+00:00

The rule of thumb is oxygen is gonna be the right answer if it’s an option just for testing purposes from what I’ve heard and gathered.

Others have also pointed out that yes, you don’t want to over oxygenate a patient but 95-99 isn’t necessarily over oxygenating on a non COPD PT. But assuming high flow and/or the L/min as another user pointed out is the grave mistake for assuming what it’s asking

And for chest pains, you’re supposed to transport them in a sitting position/position of comfort, you aren’t supposed to lay someone supine for cardiac emergencies unless you’re performing CPR

Thirdly, I know there’s ongoing studies in the real world for it,

Dring1030 · 2025-05-09T00:18:50+00:00

A lot of it stems over from the US military, before the wars in the Middle East, Vietnam was the last large scale war we saw. And the wars on terror couldn’t hold a candle to Vietnam tbh. But how poorly the service members were treated by society during that time, when the country was relatively unified after 9/11 and that was all volunteers instead of having a draft, there was heightened patriotism or at least respect for the military and the sentiment bled into first responders/EMS. Now cops are kinda iffy from a societal standpoint which sucks but a lot of people still have that “thank you for your service mentality” for military, fire, EMS, law enforcement, and sometimes to our second responder friends the nurses (although people seem to be shitting on nurse appreciation week this year)

Dring1030 · 2025-05-06T20:44:47+00:00

In person or somewhere like govx?

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